Compiled by C. ARUNO, BENJAMIN LEE and R. ARAVINTHAN
MALAYSIAN singer Fish Leong’s (pic) live concert online hit 200 million views, making her the only artiste to have done so on China’s Douyin platform apart from Singapore’s Stefanie Sun, reported Sin Chew Daily.
The concert, billed as “A Quiet Summer”, started at 8pm on Aug 28. Within three minutes, viewership exceeded 10 million.
At the 15-minute mark, it rose to 50 million before hitting 100 million at the 33-minute mark.
Viewership crossed the 200-million threshold after one hour and 30 minutes, cementing Leong as one of the most popular singers in the Chinese-speaking world.
Her fans praised her performance, saying her songs reminded them of their teenage years.
“Whenever Fish opens her mouth, it is as if spring has arrived,” someone commented.
The “Queen of Love Ballads” wrote on Weibo (China’s equivalent of Twitter) at midnight after the concert, thanking everyone for their support.
“At this point in time, you made me realise that your love could help me take each step without fear and move forward with courage,” she wrote. It is believed that the Negri Sembilan native was referring to the tough times she went through following her divorce from a businessman in 2019 after a nine-year marriage.
> A woman in Tanjung Piandang, Perak, narrowly escaped being crushed to death after a car rammed into her kopitiam in the middle of the night, reported China Press.
Shop owner Huang Nan Yi, who was sleeping on the ground floor, was jolted awake by a loud crash at 2am. She saw a big hole on a wall and a badly damaged sedan inside the shop.
One of her legs was trapped by debris from the fallen wall.
“I quickly yelled at the kid next door to help remove the bricks trapping my leg. I’m lucky it is just a minor injury. If the wall had fallen a few feet closer, the bricks would have crushed my head,” Huang said.
The driver, who is believed to have lost control of his vehicle, suffered head injuries but could crawl out of his car unaided. He was later sent to Hospital Parit Buntar.
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.
