Steamboat pot explodes after lighter falls into it

Compiled by FATIMA ZAINAL, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN 

SEVERAL diners in Yunnan, China, learned the hard way not to retrieve the lighter which fell into a steamboat pot after it exploded and scalded them with hot soup, reported China Press.

A video of the incident, which happened on Monday evening, has gone viral online. The 39-second clip showed a waitress attempting to retrieve the lighter which had fallen into the boiling soup.

Seconds later there was an explosion and the diners and waitress were seen scrambling away from the dining table.

A spokesman from the restaurant later said that the diners and the waitress had suffered minor burns and were sent to hospital for treatment.

 

> Sin Chew Daily reported that 18-year-old Chinese heartthrob Roy Wang was caught smoking in a Beijing restaurant, sending Chinese social media into a frenzy.

The teenager, who is considered to be one of the country’s most “socially responsible” public figures, is a member of TFBoys, a popular boyband.

Photos of Wang puffing away was leaked online, leading to some fans to comment that he was an “experienced smoker”.

The singer, who is a Unicef Special Advocate for Education, had since issued an apology on his Weibo account.

“This incident has made me deeply reflect on my own behaviour and I am very sorry and embarrassed about the adverse social impact that I have created,” he wrote.

TFBoys, short for The Fighting Boys, consists of three members and debuted in 2013.

They are considered as one of the most commercially successful Chinese boy bands to hit mainstream media.

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.