Compiled by EMALIN ZALANI, C.ARUNO AND R.ARAVINTAN
THE death of Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu may have been a case of fate as a prominent tarot card reader had earlier predicted that her marriage with Korean DJ Koo Jun-yup “will last only around three years”, Sin Chew Daily reported.
Shortly after Hsu announced her marriage to Koo in 2022, a celebrity fortune teller who goes by the stage name Eiffel gave a reading of the actress’ fortune on a Taiwanese TV programme.
“At most, it will last only around three years. They will not be able to grow old together,” he said.
Instead, Eiffel said it would have been better if Hsu had remained single after her failed marriage with businessman Wang Xiaofei.Hsu, 48, died of pneumonia on Feb 2 after contracting influenza during a vacation in Japan.
She died about a month before her third wedding anniversary on Feb 8.
Hsu is best known for her role in Meteor Garden, a TV adaptation of a 1990s Japanese comic of the same name.
> A father in China’s Sichuan province apparently had to sell the family home after his son destroyed several luxury vehicles in an incident involving firecrackers, China Press reported.
The incident happened on Jan 30 – the second day of Chinese New Year – when the young boy lit a firecracker and threw it into a manhole above a sewer.
CCTV footage showed that just as the child was running away, a large explosion caused the ground to crack open.
The footage showed a Lincoln sedan close to the manhole was the worst-hit and was overturned by the explosion.
The blast also supposedly damaged a Lexus ES, an Audi A8, a Range Rover and two Porsches.
The boy was reportedly detained less than an hour after the incident.
Internet users estimate that the boy’s action had caused six million yuan (RM3.7mil) in damage to the luxury vehicles and the sewerage system.
When contacted, the father urged the public not to believe what was reported online.
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.
