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DUE to Covid-19 travel restrictions, a pair of twins from China’s Harbin City will spend Chinese New Year alone at a boarding school in Melaka, reported Sin Chew Daily.
Brothers Yi Xiang and Yi Shun, who enrolled at the Pay Fong High School in 2019, said with all the other students having gone back for the festive period, it was as if the entire school “belongs to us”.
The two described the experience as “refreshing” but it did not stop them from feeling homesick.
According to the 18-year-olds, their parents and grandparents were in a situation akin to theirs as Harbin was also under lockdown, with inter-city travel banned.
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NEARLY 60% respondents in a survey said they will be skipping the tradition of tossing yee sang this year, reported Sin Chew Daily.
In a survey within the daily’s interactive game “Pandemic New Year, Are You Ready?”, respondents were asked if they were willing to risk coming in close contact with others by tossing yee sang.
Out of 1,576 participants, 59.5% chose the option “will be declining the yee sang ceremony to protect my health and those around me”.
But 22.7% said they could not do away with the tradition and would continue observing it.
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ACTRESS Amyra Rosli has explained why her family snapped a photograph with a seemingly smashed-up cake during their daughter’s birthday celebration recently, Harian Metro reported.
Amyra, whose real name is Nur Amira Izzati Rosli, said the destroyed part was only the cream on the surface and not the whole cake.
“We were not wasting food. In fact, we ate it after taking the photos. The part that people can see is only the surface cream which looked destroyed but not the cake, ” she said in response to netizens’ criticism that the family was promoting wastage.
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A WILD boar became a friendly face at a new village in Rembau, Negri Sembilan, after local residents started feeding it two years ago,
Sin Chew Daily reported.
Even though wild boars are known to be a danger to humans, this one warmed up to people after local resident Li Yao Hua, 58, fed it leftovers.
It started visiting the village more often and the neighbours began feeding it sweets and rice.
According to another resident, the female boar had a penchant for sweets and would wag its tail when it saw her nine-year-old grandson in hopes that he would share his sweets.
ACTRESS and TV host Janna Nick (
pic) made a tearful public apology on Instagram for quarrelling with some Malaysians on social media, Kosmo! reported.
“I apologise if I have offended anyone. I am aware of my mistake and who am I without your support, ” she posted on the social media platform on Tuesday.
Janna, 26, whose real name is Nurul Jannah Muner, described herself as foolish for quarrelling with these Malaysians and promised not to berate them.
“Artistes are also normal people. I’m normal as anyone and I make mistakes.
“I hope that all will forgive me, ” she said.
The actress of the popular TV drama series Misteri Mona drew criticism for her recent verbal exchanges with Malaysians on Twitter, including calling one of them a “loser”.