Compiled by YASMIN ABDUL LATIF, BEH YUEN HUI and R. ARAVINTHAN
A FOREIGN traveller shocked fellow passengers at a local airport by holding a child over a rubbish bin to defecate, China Press reported.
According to a witness waiting to board a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Penang, the incident took place at the airport’s departure lounge. The woman said she saw a man holding a child over a rubbish bin to poop.
“I could not understand why the man chose to do that when a toilet is just nearby,” she wrote in a social media post.
She added that a woman, believed to be the child’s mother, later went into the toilet to wash her hands, showing that she knew where the restroom is.
The witness said the entire boarding gate was left smelling of faeces, criticising the adults for their lack of consideration in a public place.
The post quickly sparked outrage online, with many condemning the travellers’ behaviour.
> Nanyang Siang Pau reported that China’s Hainan province was gradually phasing out the sale of petrol-powered vehicles ahead of a planned total ban by 2030.
The province said it aimed to achieve full adoption of clean-energy vehicles across all sectors.
If implemented as planned, Hainan will become China’s first provincial-level region to ban the sale of petrol vehicles.
Under the provincial government’s 15th Five-Year Plan for the Hainan National Ecological Civili-sation Pilot Zone, new energy vehicles are expected to make up 45% of all registered vehicles by 2030, up from 23.75% in 2025.
> The daily also reported that a syndicate accused of helping Chinese nationals obtain citizenship for their children through forged birth registrations has been busted in Thailand.
Authorities estimated that up to 500 Chinese babies might have obtained citizenship through the ring so far.
A total of 32 suspects, accused of arranging for Thai men to falsely claim paternity of the children, have been arrested.
Five private hospitals are also under probe for their alleged involvement. The Interior Ministry has ordered an urgent review of birth registration procedures.
One proposed measure requires both parents to appear in person to verify their identities if either one is a foreigner.
Reports said families paid about 70,000 baht (RM8,557) for each delivery, with an additional 20,000 baht charged for documentation and administrative fees.
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.
