Compiled by C. ARUNO, MAHADHIR MONIHULDIN and R. ARAVINTHAN
A LUCKY four-year-old girl in China’s Fujian province received 100 ang pow totalling 8,800 yuan (RM5,561) from her doting grandfather, Sin Chew Daily reported.
According to her aunt, each ang pow contained 88 yuan. All the 100 red packets, which were taped together, measured around 4m long when they were completely unfurled.
A video of the ang pow giving ceremony showed an elderly man “releasing” the red packets from the first floor until they reached the little girl who was waiting on the ground floor level.
“My father wanted to make her happy. This was what he decided to do,” said the aunt.
Many Internet users expressed their surprise, with some green with envy.
“Grandpa is so generous. The granddaughter must be the apple of his eye,” one said.
> A villager living near a temple in Hainan, China, set up a booth to collect “toll fees” from vehicles passing through a road near his home.
This led to much displeasure from people wanting to visit a tourist attraction there, Sin Chew Daily reported.
A visitor was shocked to see the booth when she went to the Nanshan temple in Hainan with her relatives on Jan 28 during the Chinese New Year holiday.
The woman, whose surname was Nie, was initially puzzled when she saw vehicles in a queue ahead of her.
When her turn came, a villager blocked her car and asked for 10 yuan (RM6.30).
“If you don’t pay up, we won’t let you pass through. You can make a police report, but they would not care,” the villager was reported to have told her.
To avoid wasting time, Nie chose not to report the matter to the police but posted her experience on social media. This led to a wide range of comments.
“If he collects 10 yuan per car, he would have made thousands a day if several hundred cars pass by,” someone wrote.
However, others defended the villager, saying that tourists could have chosen to use other major roads instead of accessing the temple through the village.
When the news reached the police, they arrested the man for extortion.
He was also asked to repay all of the money he had collected from the scheme.
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.
