Compiled by FATIMAH ZAINAL and TAN SIN CHOW





A 41-year-old man who mistook a firecracker for a cigarette ended up with serious injuries after it exploded in his face, in Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning province.

China Press reported that the victim was drunk when the incident took place during a drinking session with his friends recently.

He was said to have lit up the firecracker, thinking that it was a cigarette.

The force of the explosion blasted off his face.

He was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital and treated for his injuries.

> Kwong Wah Yit Poh reported that after waiting for many years, senior citizen Huang Mu Jin finally received his MyKad, just days before the festive celebration.

The 82-year-old, accompanied by his daughters, went to collect the document at the National Registration Department (NRD) office in Putrajaya on Wednesday.

He then went over to express his gratitude to Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Seri Mah Siew Keong who had helped him.

Mah’s ministry is located opposite the NRD office there.

Mah, the Gerakan president, said many seniors citizens were granted citizenship after the Government relaxed its application rules.

Huang, from Segamat, said he would like to visit his sister in China.

> Nanyang Siang Pau reported that a picture of pop queen Faye Wong (pic) kissing her beau Nicholas Tse at the airport has gone viral on Chinese microblog Weibo.

Eyewitnesses said the couple were seen happily chatting at the waiting area before Wong, 47, gave Tse, 36, the kiss.

When questioned by reporters over the incident, Tse said: “Oh, is it?”

Tse also refused to answer when asked whether they would spend time together during Chinese New Year.

He only said: “I will spend my festive celebration in Hong Kong”.

>Found in translation is 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.