Compiled by JAROD LIM,OON JUN-YANG and R. ARAVINTHAN
SOUTH Korean girl group Apink member Yoon Bomi is tying the knot with music producer Rado Song Joo-young next May, Sin Chew Daily reported.
She announced the news via a heartfelt handwritten letter to her fans. An image of the letter was also posted on Apink’s fan community site.
“I have decided to spend my future with the person who has always been by my side,” Yoon said in the letter.
Yoon, who recently drew renewed attention for her role as Kim Ji-won’s secretary in the South Korean-drama Queen of Tears, also said the decision was not impulsive.
The pair met through a musical collaboration in 2016.
Rado is a star composer who has written numerous hits, including TWICE’s TT and Apink’s Dumhdurum and I’m So Sick.
> The 27th Harbin Ice and Snow World in China officially opened to the public on Wednesday, covering a record breaking area of 1.2 million sq m, Sin Chew Daily reported.
Dubbed the “fairytale world of ice and snow,” the park uses over 400,000 cubic metres of ice and snow.
Its tallest structure is shaped like the Chinese character for “mountain”.
The highly anticipated ice slide features 24 lanes totalling 521m in length, while the 120m-high “Snowflake Ferris Wheel” offers a unique perspective of the park.
The park also features a newly built 5,000 sq m Harbin air-dome hall with eateries and rest areas.
To accommodate international tourists, the park has internationalised its ticketing process and is providing multilanguage guide services.
> A total of 3.6 million people had cleared the Woodlands and Tuas land checkpoints in Singapore in the first week of the year-end school holidays from Nov 21 to Nov 27, Oriental Daily reported.
According to data from the Singapore Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA), the number of travellers surpassed 555,000 on Nov 21 in a single-day peak.
With Christmas and New Year holidays approaching, traffic at both land checkpoints is expected to be extremely heavy.
ICA had urged travellers to consider cross-border bus services to avoid congestion.
(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.)
