Published: Saturday May 24, 2014 MYT 12:00:00 AM
Updated: Saturday May 24, 2014 MYT 8:05:49 AM
Hard time letting go of dead hubby
Compiled by ALLISON LAI, CALVIN TAN and A. RAMAN
A SOUTH Korean woman kept the apparently preserved body of her husband, who died of cancer, in her living room for seven years.
China Press reported that the 47-year-old, a pharmacist identified as Cho, said she and her children had been talking and even saying goodbye to the dead body before going out as usual.
Police said that when the body was found last December, it was laid on the floor in the living room and covered with a blanket as though it was sleeping.
The body was also fairly clean and well maintained, and showed little signs of decomposition.
Cho, who runs her own pharmacy, was believed to have used her professional knowledge to embalm the body.
She was declared free of any criminal conduct by police after the body was discovered.
> Kwong Wah Yit Poh reported that a young woman from Wuhan, China, refused to pay up after scratching some 600 lottery tickets in five hours.
The incident on Monday saw the 23-year-old initially asking for 100 tickets, priced between two and 10 yuan (RM1 and RM5) each, from the counter.
She was reminded to pay up two hours later before the worker finished his shift.
However, she persisted and delayed payment.
Later, when she was again told to pay up, she boasted that it was normal for her to scratch tickets worth up to 2,000 yuan (RM1,000) each time and she would always pay.
When she had eventually scratched about 600 tickets, she admitted that she only had 100 yuan (RM50) on her. After taking into account the winning tickets, she still had to fork out 1,525 yuan (RM762.50).
She was arrested by police and slapped with a 10-day administrative detention for defiance and causing an affray.
> Singer Faye Wong has splashed out on a beach villa in Yunnan, China, so she can practise her faith, according to Nanyang Siang Pau.
The devout Buddhist is said to have been taken with Tibetan Buddhism and intends to become a nun should that be her destiny.
Quoting a source, it said the 44-year-old Chinese star was, in the meantime, worried about her daughters — Jingtong, 17, by first husband, musician Dou Wei, and Yan, seven, by actor-turned-businessman Li Yapeng.
It said Wong would wait for Yan to grow up and be able to care for herself before she considered letting go of the material world for her religion.