CHINESE actress Datuk Fan Bingbing (pic) has finally received her trophy for Best Leading Actress one month after bagging it at the prestigious Golden Horse Awards 2025 for her role in the Malaysian film Mother Bhumi, reported China Press.
Fan, who was unable to attend the ceremony in November, was handed the horse-shaped trophy by director Chong Keat Aun during her visit to Melaka on Wednesday.
"Before 2025 ends, I carried out my final duty for the year as a director by personally handing the Best Leading Actress trophy to its rightful recipient," Chong said on social media.
He added that watching Fan holding the trophy made him recall the hard work she had put in to make the film a success.
"I was immediately reminded of how she followed us to live in a rural village in Kedah, working in the fields, planting rice seedlings, leading buffaloes, harvesting vegetables, cooking and performing ritual blessings," he said.
Mother Bhumi, a story about a widowed farmer who uses magic to help her community in Kedah, also stars Natalie Hsu, Rai Run-yin and Pearlly Chua.
It was one of the Golden Horse Awards’ biggest winners, taking home three prizes, including for Best Cinematography and Best Original Film Song.
> A man in Shanxi, China, was jailed for repeatedly scaling the fence of a nursing home to beat up his father, purportedly as payback for the ruthless discipline he endured as a child, reported Oriental Daily.
The man, whose surname was Hou, claimed that his father had disciplined him harshly during his childhood.
As such, he developed deep-seated fear and resentment towards his father in his adulthood, and began to abuse the elderly man.
To protect their father, Hou's sister sent him to live in a nursing home in 2021.
However, Hou scaled the fence of the nursing home twice in 2024 to beat up his father, who was in his 80s by then.
The second incident left the elderly man with a fracture on his right fibula.
Hou was finally arrested on June 10, 2025.
The court ruled that Hou had repeatedly assaulted his father with intent to cause injury, and sentenced him to one year in prison.
Public reaction over the sentencing was divided.
While some Internet users thought the sentencing was too light, others empathised with Hou over his alleged trauma.
"Climbing over a fence just to beat up his father? What kind of abuse must he have suffered as a child?" one netizen wrote.
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