Morning Digest, May 6
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Morning Digest, May 6

Obbana Rajah
By Obbana Rajah
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Barbie Hsu’s ex-husband Wang Xiaofei rushes to the toilet 3-4 times during livestream after trying the food of his own Szechuan cuisine brand he was selling

Photo: Douyin/screengrab

A stomach bug appears to have affected Chinese businessman Wang Xiaofei in the middle of a recent Douyin livestream where he was promoting his own product, a line of Szechuan cuisine. Due to his tummy troubles, he had to excuse himself to go to the toilet several times.

He tasted some boiled beef he had just made and then began experiencing stomach pains. To the surprise of the viewers of the livestream, he even needed to go to the toilet three or four times. Read more here

Netizens ask, “Why you no fun S’pore? Such a thing also cannot” after ‘S’pore passport cake’ bakery told to stop selling it & remove all images from its promotional materials

Photo: FB screengrab/The Pine Garden and unsplash.com/Keith Yap
Members from the online community expressed criticisms and workarounds following a local bakery being told to remove its cake with the Singapore passport design. “For those yearning to travel, don’t be demoralized. You still can get your ‘Passport’ in a few days’ time,” wrote Ang Mo Kio bakery Pine Garden last month as it promoted its Singapore passport cakes for those waiting for the real thing. Chinese-language newspaper Lianhe Zaobao reported that Pine Garden first received an order for the cake design from a customer who showed them a photo of the Singapore passport. Read more here

S’pore woman who viciously & fatally abused Myanmar helper allegedly gets physically & sexually abused by inmates in prison, gets appeal denied

Photo: YouTube screengrab, Gaiyathiri
Gaiyathiri Murugayan, 42, viciously abused 24-year-old Myanmarese Piang Ngaih Don for several months until she died in 2016, having lost 15kgs through the ordeal. Gaiyathiri was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment last year after she fatally abused her domestic helper. Her request to the Court of Appeal on Wednesday (May 4) for more records to support her appeal against her sentence was rejected. Piang eventually passed away in the family’s three-bedroom flat along Bishan Street 11 after an assault from Gaiyathiri, who also tied her to a window grille for several hours. Read more here

Parking dispute, but netizens joke it was ‘girlfriend dispute’ that caused man to scratch both sides of Honda Civic near New World Centre at Jalan Besar

Photo: TikTok screengrab/ benjunior_87

On Tuesday (May 3), a TikToker going by benjunior_87 uploaded a video of a man scratching not one but two sides of a Honda Civic in Singapore.

Timestamps on the video, which came from a dashcam, show that it occurred at about 11:40 am on Monday, May 2, allegedly near New World Centre at Jalan Besar.

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VIDEO: Two jaywalking men in Tampines show you how to stop vehicle & road traffic with ‘Power of the Force’ even on green light signal

Photo: YT screengrab/ SG Road Vigilante
Traffic rules are rules, not suggestions. This means they exist to be obeyed, even if you’re a Star Wars Jedi or Sith Lord, and no matter how much of a hurry you are in. 

For two men in Tampines, however, this did not seem to be the case, as they used the power of their own upraised hands to somewhat force oncoming vehicles to stop, even when the light was green.

A video of the errant pedestrians was uploaded on the SG Road Vigilante Facebook and YouTube pages on Tuesday (May 3).

Read more here  

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