Compiled by C.ARUNO, TEH ATHIRA YUSOF AND R. ARAVINTHAN
TWO men, who are believed to have been arguing over fried rice, caused other diners in a restaurant to vacate the premises after one of them used pepper spray against the other, reported China Press.
A social media user realised something was amiss after he was hit with a pungent odour when enjoying a meal at the restaurant in Kuala Lumpur.
Diners began coughing and sneezing, with many seen running out of the restaurant.
Another user, who claimed to have witnessed the incident, said the argument started between a young man and an older man over a plate of fried rice.
The fight became heated and the young man pulled out a can of pepper spray and started spraying it in the older man’s direction.
> Two factories that have been making soy sauce and chilli sauce for nearly a century in Penang have been shut down for a fortnight after authorities found that they were littered with rat droppings, reported Sin Chew Daily.
The Timur Laut district health office inspected the soy sauce factory on Jan 22 and found that beans being fermented were placed directly in front of the toilet, with the whole surrounding area covered in algae. The warehouse was also covered in rodent traps and rat droppings.
Officers also visited the chilli sauce factory and found that the processing plant had rat droppings.
Reportedly, the two factories have each been shut down seven times in the past 10 years.
> A woman in Sichuan, China, swallowed a toothbrush by accident and had to have it surgically removed, reported China Press.
The incident occurred in Mianyang city when a woman felt ill after having two glasses of alcohol.
Attempting to induce vomiting, the woman inserted a finger into her throat to get herself to throw up. When that failed, she tried using a toothbrush, but ended up swallowing it.
Doctors had to operate to remove the 19cm toothbrush lodged in her stomach.
(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.)