Compiled by C. ARUNO and SHYAFIQ DZULKIFLI
VETERAN Hong Kong actor Benz Hui (pic) has passed away at the age of 76, reported major news portals.
The beloved actor died yesterday morning, reportedly due to organ failure caused by cancer.
Hui is survived by his wife and their daughter.
Prior to his death, a bevy of Hong Kong celebrities visited him at the hospital. This included actress Charmaine Sheh, who was said to think of him as a father figure. Actor Chow Yun Fat also paid him a visit.
He had acted in at least 150 films and drama series in an enduring career that included being named the best supporting actor at the TVB Anniversary Awards in 2013.
He became known as Benz, as he drove such a car to work.
> A museum visitor in Guangzhou, China, nearly lost his arm when the limb got stuck inside a dinosaur exhibit, China Press reported.
He was saved when a staff member cut off the dinosaur’s lower jaw.
This happened last Saturday at the Zhengjia Museum of Natural Science, where he was seen heading towards an exhibit of an oviraptor – a feathered dinosaur around half the height of an adult male human found in Mongolia.
CCTV footage showed the man extending his right arm across a barrier and reaching into the dinosaur’s mouth.
He was seen struggling to free himself while the arm turned pale due to restricted blood flow.
Museum staff decided to cut off the dinosaur model’s lower jaw to free the man.
A spokesperson from the museum said the oviraptor exhibit, which features a scene of the dinosaur laying eggs, has always been popular among visitors.
The exhibit had to be temporarily closed for repairs, he said.
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.
