A 12-YEAR-OLD girl has become her own boss by running a stationery shop near her primary school in Jiujiang city, China’s Jiangxi province.
Sin Chew Daily reported that the girl used her red packet savings to cover startup costs of about 44,000 yuan (RM25,300), including inventory, rent, deposit and a freezer.
She even pays her mother 100 yuan (about RM57) a day to work at the shop.
According to the mother, the girl had been keeping her ang pow money since she was four or five years old.
“No matter the amount, it’s her money, so she has the right to decide how to use it,” said the mother, who would manage the shop during school hours.
The girl, who would take over after classes, handles tasks such as purchasing stock and negotiating partnerships to making final decisions, while her mother provides advice and handles sales.
This has led to widespread discussion online, with many praising the girl for having financial awareness at such a young age.
Others, however, felt that the mother’s parenting approach was too bold.
As for the mother, she said she believed in the importance of analysing problems from multiple perspectives to develop a well-rounded character, instead of merely acquiring textbook knowledge.
> China Press reported that a Japanese woman finally met veteran Mandopop singer-songwriter Eric Moo in Taipei, fulfilling a dream she had pursued for decades.
Moo embraced her and thanked her in Japanese when they met backstage at his concert on March 14.
The woman handed him a handwritten letter, which he read aloud.
Netizens commented: “This kind of love goes beyond the word ‘fan’.
“It is devotion that crosses language, time and even half a lifetime.”
Apparently, the woman first came to Taipei in 1997 and unexpectedly fell in love with the songs she “could not understand”.
She then traveled all the way to Beijing to study Chinese, just to grasp the meaning of the lyrics.
(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.)
