Compiled by JUSTIN ZACK, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
A MAN in China’s Liaoning province spent Chinese New Year’s eve in jail after he was nabbed for taking his father to a different prefecture and abandoning him there, reported Sin Chew Daily.
The elderly man was found wandering alone in the Inner Mongolian city of Hulunbuir, around 1,300km north of his hometown in Liaoning.
According to the Old Barag Banner public security bureau, the son took his father to a tourist spot in Hulunbuir on Jan 31 and left by himself.
The elderly man was found a week later with frostbite on his feet and rushed to the Hulunbuir People’s Hospital for treatment.
The Old Barag Banner arrested the son on Feb 9. He later confessed to his crime.
> Believing that his parents loved his older sister more, a 10-year-old boy from China ran away from home and reported his parents to the police, the daily also reported.
The lad from Hunan was upset that his parents had scolded him but defended his elder sister.
Frustrated, the boy braved the cold winter on Jan 28 and walked to a police station 1km away where he broke down and reported all of his parents’ “offences”.When interviewed, the parents claimed that their son had made eight police reports about them in just the past year.
They admitted that they were often busy with work and had overlooked their son’s feelings.
> Taiwanese influencer Goodnight Chicken, who sneaked into a scam call centre in Cambodia, got more than he bargained for after he was believed to have been abducted by armed guards there, Sin Chew Daily also reported.
Goodnight Chicken, whose real name is Chen Neng Chuan, managed to capture footage of himself walking into a compound in Sihanoukville on Feb 12, with armed guards wearing what appeared to be military uniforms.
It had more than 10,000 live viewers.
Suddenly, his camera fell to the ground after Chen was believed to have been attacked.
The footage then showed a man in military uniform picking up the camera before the livestream abruptly stopped.
Chen’s wife and family members have issued an emergency statement online to express their worry for him, adding that they haven’t been able to reach him.
Many Internet users were worried about Chen and pleaded with those with local contacts to rescue him.
Others, however, were sceptical and remarked that the video could be fake and done to garner views.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
