FIREMEN have been called in to remove two rings that were stuck on a man’s penis in Sungai Petani, Kedah, China Press reported.
Amanjaya Fire Station chief Azahari Abdullah said his department received a call from Hospital Sultan Abdul Halim seeking help around 2.10pm on Saturday.
Azahari said the 38-year-old man had apparently put two rings on his organ but was unable to remove them.
He said firemen had to cut the rings with special tools.
“The whole process has to be carefully done to prevent injury,” he said, adding the operation ended an hour later.
> The catchphrase “Drop by the ICAC for coffee” no longer carries a negative connotation after the Independent Commission Against Corruption of Hong Kong opened a cafe last Friday, the daily also reported.
The phrase, which often appears in films and dramas, refers to someone being summoned to assist in graft investigations.
But now, the general public can visit the anti-corruption body’s North Point headquarters for coffee while learning about the organisation’s work and developments.
The display includes documents from unrevealed past cases, a variety of evidence-gathering tools, eavesdropping tools and other related paraphernalia.
The cafe, which opened last Friday, is named 1974 after the year the commission was established and to commemorate the ICAC’s 50th anniversary, ultimately guiding the special administrative region once plagued by widespread corruption to become one of the world’s least corrupt places.
> Nanyang Siang Pau reported that five employees, including a project manager of China Railway Seventh Group, had been detained for assaulting two journalists investigating a railway construction project in Anhui province.
On Nov 12, the Economy Information Daily – a newspaper affiliated with China’s national news agency Xinhua – reported that several companies involved in railway construction had used inferior materials and illegally substituted products to cut costs, posing safety risks to the public.
Personnel from the railway construction company attacked Wang Wenzhi and Cheng Zilong when they returned to the construction site two days later for a follow-up investigation.
Wang injured his right hand while Cheng was unhurt.
China Railway Seventh Group apologised to the journalists and announced the removal of those responsible for the assault from their positions.
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.
