A WOMAN from Xianning city, Hubei province in China, was sentenced to seven days of administrative detention after livestreaming herself verbally abusing her mother, Sin Chew Daily reported.
According to police investigations, on July 14, the woman insulted her mother with foul language after her mother reprimanded her, leading to a heated argument.
Despite numerous viewers urging her to stop, she not only ignored their pleas but continued with the abuse.
At one point, over 300 people were watching the livestream.
Authorities discovered that she had also previously insulted others publicly during live broadcasts to attract attention and boost follower engagement.
On May 14 this year, she received a verbal warning and signed a written guarantee, promising to cease such behaviour following a similar incident.
> The daily also reported that a former nursery teacher in Singapore became enraged and kicked a four-year-old girl on the leg for nearly tripping her while sitting on the floor.
The girl told her mother she’d been kicked after school and when her mother saw the bruises, she reported it to the police.
The teacher pleaded guilty to a charge under the Children and Young Persons Act 1993.
According to the facts of the case, the teacher was arranging the beds in the nursery.
When she turned around, she nearly tripped over the victim, who was sitting on the floor.
She then became furious and kicked the victim’s right lower leg while shouting at her.
The victim’s mother got her examined in the hospital.
> South Korea has recorded its highest increase in births for the first five months of the year, Oriental Daily reported.
From January to May this year, the number of newborns reached 106,048, marking a 6.9% increase.
This is the largest surge since such data was collected in 1981.
The rise, driven by an increase in marriage rates, signifies the first annual growth in South Korea’s birth rate in over a decade.
In 2024, the number of newborns increased by 8,300 from the previous year, a 3.6% rise, totalling 238,300 births.
South Korea’s total fertility rate – the average number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime – stood at 0.75 in May.
To maintain its current population of 51 million, the country needs a fertility rate of 2.1.
(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.)
