Compiled by C. ARUNO, DIYANA PFORDTEN and R. ARAVINTHAN
DESPITE having a net worth of 245 million yuan (RM149mil), Chinese actress Dilraba Dilmurat (pic) does not own a home, Sin Chew Daily reported.
To her, “home” is simply wherever she unpacks her suitcase.
The Xinjiang-born celebrity said owning a house makes little sense when it would sit empty while she is away for work.
Ever since her career began at age 18, constant travel to different cities and countries has left her without a permanent residence.
Dilraba, 34, shared that years on the road have led her to pare down her belongings to what fits in a single suitcase.
She admitted she prefers staying in five-star hotels, where meals and housekeeping are taken care of. She can unpack, lay out her own bedsheets and set up her toiletries in just 20 minutes.
> Wild elephants rampaged through more than 10 plots of farmland in Segamat, Johor, destroying about 3,000 banana trees on one farm alone, Sin Chew Daily reported.
Farmhands reported seeing more than 10 elephants appear in Labis since last month.
It was thought that the animals were moving from Bekok towards Sungai Karak and the farms along Jalan Tenang in Labis.
Farm manager Xu Jian Yong, who looks after five plots of farmland, estimated losses of about RM200,000.
“I grew bananas on the vacant land while the owner waited for his oil palm trees to grow. The bananas would have been ready in about two weeks, but the elephants got to them first,” he said.
Kampung Paya Merah village head Abdul Razak Haron said the animals also broke a metal gate at a Muslim cemetery along Jalan Tenang. They ate half of the sugarcane planted there, resulting in RM2,000 in losses, he said.
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.
