Compiled by SYED AZHAR, NG SI HOOI and R. ARAVINTHAN

A CHARITY event turned ugly when people started fighting over goodie bags at the venue, in front of the Goddess of Mercy Temple in George Town, China Press reported.

The commotion started when some elderly and underprivileged people, including several homeless folk, started pushing and shoving each other as they struggled to get the bags on Wednesday morning.

Two of them then threw punches at each other but several people in the queue managed to calm them down. The event, organised by Angels Group, then went on without further incident; 300 goodie bags were handed out to the crowd.

But RM5 angpow packets, which were also supposed to be given out to the people, were held back due to the altercation earlier.

A spokesman for the organiser, Lin Li Hong, said it holds the event on the first and 15th day of each month according to the Chinese lunar calendar.

> Sin Chew Daily reported that a 12-year-old boy was injured after he was literally thrown out of the house in Sibu by his drunk father.

The incident happened at about midnight on Wednesday. Neigh­bours lodged a police report after they found the boy sprawled outside the house.

A medical team found that his shoulder was dislocated and he was sent to hospital. His condition was reported to be stable.

Police detained the boy’s 37-year-old father.

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.