Compiled by C. ARUNO, JUSTIN ZACK and R. ARAVINTHAN
A WOMAN was shocked to find fingernail clippings in her lunch at a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur, reported Sin Chew Daily.
The woman was taken aback when she felt something strange in her mouth when having a plate of mixed rice.
She was shocked when she realised they were nail clippings.
“It was not only one, but a total of six fingernail clippings. Two of them had already ended up in my mother’s mouth ... speechless!” the woman’s daughter said.
She added that her mother was traumatised by the incident.
The restaurant in Taman Tun Dr Ismail later apologised on its Facebook page for allowing “a foreign object” to end up in their food, adding that it was investigating how it occurred.
“We want to stress that this incident does not mean we have not practised the highest standards since we started operating,” it said.
> An Internet celebrity in China died from alcohol poisoning after livestreaming a drinking competition on social media, reported Sin Chew Daily.
Wang Moufeng, 34, better known by his handle Three Thousand Brother, streamed himself challenging others in a drinking competition on May 16 which lasted until 1am in the morning.
“It was not until 1pm the next day that someone realised he had died,” said one of Wang’s friends, known only as Zhao.
Zhao, who owns a lobster restaurant, said he saw Wang drinking four jin (two litres) of alcohol by the end of his livestream session.
“I don’t know how much he drank at the start,” he said.
Zhao added that Wang was a good man and that he did not expect him to die in such a way.
Wang’s body was cremated on May 19.
> Hong Kong actress Sit Yeng Yi is now considered a bona fide celebrity after the music video for her debut single, One Plus One Equals Ah Yi, garnered more than 1.56 million views in just a month, beating that of Hong Kong boyband Mirror, according to China Press.
Mirror made their global debut with the release of their first English single Rumours on March 17, just three weeks before Sit.
While Sit’s video, produced locally, notched up 1.56 million views on YouTube, Rumours drew only 1.3 million views.
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.
