Compiled by RAHIMY RAHIM, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
THE sale of soiled women’s undergarments on an online shopping platform has sparked worry about the declining social practices in Malaysia, China Press reported.
A resident in Melaka alerted the daily about an online shop selling panties and pantyhose marketed as undergarments with the “original” scent of a woman or female college student.
The daily found that the shop had even uploaded photos of the supposed owners of the items, albeit with their faces blurred out.
One of the reasons given for selling their underwear was to help support their studies and living expenses.
Records on the shopping platform showed that there were 11 purchases of the used pantyhose.
Kota Laksamana assemblyman Low Chee Leong described such a business as immoral and that it may normalise the behaviour of individuals with such fetishes.
“In the past, there have been many cases in Melaka where undergarments, being let out to dry, were stolen.
“Now, they can just buy them via online shopping. It is indeed worrisome,” he said.
> Netizens are furious with a 30-year-old man who jumped over barriers at the Terracotta Warriors Museum in Xi’an, destroying two priceless artefacts which were over 2,000 years old, the same daily reported.
“If this continues, I’m afraid we won’t get to appreciate the Terracotta Warriors anymore in the future,” someone wrote.
Some of the Internet users even called for the man to be beaten up. Others, however, blamed the museum for being lax with security.
During the May 30 incident, the man had pushed two of the statues, causing them to fall and break apart.
Xi’an police later released a statement, saying that the man was mentally ill and had been arrested.
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.
