International fame: Li taking on Hollywood in her role as Ada Wong in ‘Resident Evil: Retribution’.
Compiled by RAGANANTHINI VETHASALAM and C. ARUNO
Chinese actress Li Bingbing has vowed not to marry or have children, saying that she will let her nephew and niece inherit her estate, the daily also reported.
In an interview, the 49-year-old said she has prepared a will to distribute her assets after her death.
“All my assets will be given to my nephew and niece,” she said.
Despite her busy schedule, the actress has always been known to cherish personal time with family, especially with her sister Li Xue and her two children.
“I am just like friends to them. The love and affection between family members is not something easily broken up in one’s lifetime,” she said.
Li was born in Heilongjiang, China, and rose to fame after starring in Zhang Yuan’s Seventeen Years In 1999, which won her the Best Actress Award in the 1999 Singapore Film Festival.
She went on to star in many other movies. She even made a name for herself in Hollywood by starring in movies such as Resident Evil: Retribution and Transformers: Age Of Extinction.
> A wild boar which swam to shore on a Melaka beach ended up ramming into a motorcycle and injuring the rider, reported China Press.
Video footage of the incident showed the animal swimming up to Pantai Putri some 12km away from the city before it began running aimlessly.
Tourists at the beach were seen moving away to avoid the boar.
The wild boar then headed towards the road before ramming into a passing motorcyclist, causing him to fall off.
The animal, which was said to be unhurt, then headed towards bushes soon after.
A 37-second video clip of the incident, believed to have been taken last week, was widely shared on WhatsApp.
> An elderly woman in China’s Hubei province caused a stir on social media recently after she was filmed licking pumpkins at a supermarket, reported Sin Chew Daily.
In the video uploaded online, the woman was seen tearing the plastic wrap off a pumpkin before licking it, placing it back on the shelf and then repeating the act with another pumpkin.
It is believed that the woman wanted to gauge the sweetness of the pumpkins before buying one.
Internet users were furious at her after footage of her action went viral on social media.
Many described her licking the pumpkins as “disgusting” and “selfish”, considering that the world was stuck in a pandemic.
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.
