Compiled by FAZLEENA AZIZ, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
A 78-YEAR-OLD woman in Taiwan’s Pingtung County fought off a 44-year-old man who tried to snatch her handbag, reported Sin Chew Daily.
CCTV footage showed her walking alone down an alley when a man on a motorcycle approached and pretended to ask for directions.
While she was distracted, the man grabbed the handbag.
The force of the tug knocked the woman to the ground. Despite the fall, she refused to let go of the bag.
The pair struggled before the man finally seized it and attempted to flee on his motorcycle.
The woman jumped to her feet, pushed the motorcycle over and grabbed hold of her assailant.
Faced with her fierce resistance, the man panicked and was heard begging for mercy in the footage.
The woman held onto her handbag strap and used it to strike the man repeatedly on his torso as he fled.
Police later tracked down the suspect and arrested him.
Speaking after the incident, the woman said she thought the man was someone she knew and did not expect him to be a snatch thief.
The incident left her with injuries to her shoulder and elbow although her valuables remained intact.
> A woman in Shandong, China, sparked controversy after secretly photographing a naked male neighbour in his own home and reporting it in a residential chat group, reported Oriental Daily.
The incident took place on June 28 when the woman noticed a man in an apartment in the opposite block walking around naked with his curtains open.
Believing the scene was inappropriate for children living in the area, she took a photo.
She uploaded it to a chat group of around 400 residents, urging the man to close his curtains if he chose to go naked at home.
The man later confronted the woman in the chat group and accused her of breaking the law.
Legal experts agreed, saying he had the right to be naked in his own home, while the woman had infringed on his privacy.
They added that the woman could face a fine or administrative detention for her actions.
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.
