Compiled by TARRENCE TAN, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
A 12-YEAR-OLD schoolgirl from Ipoh, Perak, celebrated her birthday at the summit of Gunung Kinabalu, fulfilling a long-held dream, reported China Press.
Chloe Lim Qiao Er, a pupil at SJKC Min Sin, was barely five when her parents scaled South-East Asia’s highest peak in 2019.
Mesmerised by their achievement, Lim pleaded to join their next climb, but her parents resisted, citing her young age and physical limitations.
She renewed her request earlier this year – and this time, her parents gave the green light. To gear up for the gruelling ascent, they trained twice weekly up Bukit Kledang in Menglembu.
Though pushed to tears by the relentless training, Lim never once wavered in her resolve.
> A man, who was seen kneeling on a pavement in Hainan, China, begging his girlfriend not to leave, sparked a heated debate online, reported China Press.
The incident was said to have taken place on July 27 in Sanya, where a man was seen kneeling and gripping the wrist of a woman in the middle of a busy street.
He could be heard repeatedly apologising to the woman.
Showing no sign of capitulating, the woman calmly stepped backwards.
Realising his pleas were not working, the man placed his head on the ground to kowtow to her, claiming that he would not leave unless she forgave him.
Many onlookers began filming the scene, but the man appeared to be unperturbed by the attention.
Internet users said the man must have cared deeply for the woman to have put aside his pride to kneel in front of her in public.
Others, however, pointed out that the relationship was doomed to fail if one of the parties had to resort to kneeling and pleading for forgiveness.
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.
