A HIGH school in China recently came under fire for having a dormitory packed with 24 bunk beds.
China Press reported that the school in Xinyang, Henan province, had planned to place 48 female students in it when the school term begins next month, raising serious safety concerns.
A parent, who visited the dormitory where her daughter will be staying, was shocked with what she saw and complained to the school board.
In response, the school said they were renovating the classrooms and that the dormitory block would only be refurbished next year.
The district’s education and sports bureau had instructed the school to stop using the dormitory.
The affected students would be temporarily relocated to other campuses.
> The daily also reported that netizens have praised retired sportswoman Guo Jingjing for being “down to earth”.
The former diver was recently spotted with two of her children at their school without an escort.
“She dressed modestly and didn’t have a driver when she took her daughter to a weekend extracurricular class,” a netizen wrote on social media.
Guo married Kenneth Fok, a member of Hong Kong’s elite Fok family, in 2012 and they have a son and two daughters.
The couple has always maintained a low-key and down-to-earth image.
> Oriental Daily reported a Chinese woman was caught overstaying in Singapore for 20 years.
She entered the republic on March 13, 2004, but did not leave and instead started working after her 14-day social visit pass expired.
Recently, she turned herself in to the Singapore Immigration and Checkpoints Authority.
On Aug 29, the woman, who was not represented, pleaded guilty to violating the Immigration Act in court.
She begged for leniency, stating that she just wanted to return home as soon as possible.
She was sentenced to six months in jail and fined S$2,000 (RM6,626).
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.
