A MAN, who allegedly raped an underage teenager, has been arrested, thanks to netizens and Good Samaritans.
Nanyang Siang Pau reported that members of the public, who responded to a widely circulated online post about the rape, launched their own hunt for the suspect in the Klang Valley.
After a two-day search, the public found the 30-year-old man hiding in a temple in Klang, arrested him and handed him over to the police on Saturday evening.
In a video recorded by members of the public, the man confessed that he had had sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Sentul OCPD Asst Comm R. Munusamy confirmed the arrest.
> Major dailies reported that Malaysian songbird Shila Amzah, who made a name in China, had asked her fans during her concert in Kuala Lumpur to match-make her with a Mandarin-speaking man.
However, the 24-year-old singer said she would not make her love relationship public.
“Maybe I will wait until I get married, then I will inform you all,” she said.
At the concert on Saturday night, she sang songs in three languages – Malay, Chinese and English – including Zheng Fu (Conquer), a number by Chinese star Na Ying that shot her to fame and clinched the Asian Wave 2012 champion title, and Xia Yi Bu (Next Step), the first Mandarin song she wrote herself.
> China Press reported that a man showed up at a telecommunication outlet in Wenzhou, China, to buy five iPhones worth a total of 21,500 yuan (RM11,178), and paid for them in one yuan notes.
The man took out three sacks and poured out more than 40 stacks of notes onto the counter. Each stack contained 500 yuan (RM260).
? Found in Translation is 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 this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.
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