'Stinky feet vermicelli' factory closed

A FACTORY producing rice vermicelli in Dongguan, China, found itself caught in a food safety scandal when pictures emerged online of its workers handling the product with their bare feet on the floor.

Major Chinese dailies reported that a netizen posted pictures on the Internet, showing the barefoot workers kicking around piles of the noodle on the floor.

They trampled all over the vermicelli as they walked about in the premises.

One worker was shown lying on a pile of vermicelli while taking an afternoon nap.

Netizens were stunned by the revelation. They condemned the factory, calling their product “stinky foot rice vermicelli”.

The local food safety administration has ordered the factory to be closed temporarily to reassess its production procedures.

The factory was also cautioned to improve its hygiene conditions.

> China Press reported that an upper human torso was found in a luggage bag on Syed Alwi Road in Little India, Singapore.

Police said they were alerted to the discovery on Wednesday evening. When they arrived at the scene, they found a luggage with the upper body believed to be that of a man.

The case was classified as unnatural death and investigations are ongoing.

> Kwong Wah Yit Poh reported that a village in Phuket island, Thailand, has a different perception of beauty.

To the villagers, women who were bigger in size were consideredmore ideal.

Those weighing more than 100kg were seen as the real beauties in the village.

In order to be more pretty, the womenfolk would stay idle and lie down most of the time while the men would do the household chores.

Slim women in the village were said to have problems in looking for partners as they were deemed too thin.

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