‘Jay Chou’ selling egg tarts in Singapore

Compiled by C. ARUNO, KHOO GEK SAN and R. ARAVINTHAN

MANDOPOP king Jay Chou selling egg tarts in Singapore? Social media users were amused when a viral post showed a man bearing an uncanny resemblance to the Taiwanese superstar working at a coffee shop in the city-state, reported Sin Chew Daily.

The man was captured selling the popular pastry at a restaurant in a post that went viral on Facebook.

Internet users joked that the economy was so bad that the 44-year-old singer-actor had to resort to working a second job.

Some cheekily commented that the Jay Chou doppelganger should have a better singing voice than the star himself, who is known to be a prolific songwriter but tends to mumble incoherently when rendering his tunes.

> Taiwanese singer Jam Hsiao, wearing a cap and carrying a guitar on his back, was spotted helping an elderly couple remove their suitcases from a baggage cart at an airport in Shanghai, reported China Press.

Fans who managed to film the incident told the singer that he was “such a nice person”.

In reply, the 36-year-old could be heard saying, “You are also helping me.”

When the video was shared online, many Internet users praised the singer for being a true gentleman.

> A woman in China deliberately created a scene by accusing another passenger of being her husband’s mistress just so she would not have to vacate her seat on a train recently, reported Sin Chew Daily.

The woman, who was a standing ticket holder, decided to occupy a seat next to her husband.

But when the passenger who bought the seated ticket arrived, the woman started to point and yell at her instead.

“This is my husband. We got married and have a marriage certificate. We even have a child together.

“She is destroying my family. She wants to break up my family,” the woman screamed.

She was apparently trying to raise a ruckus in her bid to shoo off the hapless passenger.

Video footage of the incident showed that the woman refused to budge even when the conductor asked for her ticket.

Most netizens showed sympathy for the passenger who did not get her seat back.

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.