Compiled by C.ARUNO, BENJAMIN LEE and R.ARAVINTAN
A MAN has been suffering sleepless nights because of a dinosaur outside his home at a Beijing residence in China, Sin Chew Daily reported.
The 15m-tall Brachiosaurus statue put up by a resident has its head looking directly into the man’s apartment.
“I see it every time I lift my head. It is huge, it has a long neck, red lips with white teeth and appears to be running towards me.
“I have not had good sleep for days,” said the complainant known only as Tong.
He hoped his neighbour would remove the statue. This was supported by some of the other residents.
When interviewed, the dinosaur’s owner said she bought the statue for 100,000 yuan (RM66,020).
“It is cute and the children in the neighbourhood love it very much.
“But since there are people who don’t like it, I have covered its head,” she added.
> The daily also reported that a Taiwanese mother was at wits’ end when her son went on a hunger strike after his demand to go on an overseas holiday trip was turned down.
Sharing her ordeal on Facebook, the mother wrote that the son, a Year Six pupil, had asked for the vacation after seeing many of his schoolmates going on holidays abroad.
But the mother said they could not afford such a trip, explaining that her husband was only a factory worker and she was a homemaker.
Even so, she said she had never deprived the son of material comfort and had bought him an iPhone when he wanted one.
As she was writing it, she added that her son stopped his hunger strike after she promised to take him overseas.
“To be honest, my heart is broken. Have I failed in educating him?” the mother wrote.
> China Press reported that a Chinese man got an extra ingredient in his lamb stew – a rat carcass with its teeth and whiskers still intact.
When revealing the disgusting find, the diner from Jiangsu province said he had ordered the dish from a restaurant using a food delivery app on Dec 12.
He said as he was eating the meat, he spotted half a rat carcass in the stew.
“I panicked, I did not know if I had eaten the other half,” he said, adding the rodent appeared like it had been marinated alongside the lamb meat.
When he told the restaurant operator aboaut it, he was asked if the rodent had fallen into the stew at his home.
The angry customer filed a complaint with the State Administration for Market Regulation, which later confirmed that they were investigating the incident.
The eatery has been temporarily closed pending investigations.
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.
