Compiled by CLARISSA CHUNG, AMANDA YEAP and R. ARAVINTHAN

A 14-YEAR-OLD girl prostituted herself 35 times to save up for a smartphone, reported China Press.

The paper quoted SAC Datuk Rohaimi Md Isa, who is Bukit Aman Secret Societies, Gambling and Vice Division (D7) principal assistant director, as saying the case was one of many involving underage schoolgirls allegedly involved in the sex trade the past year.

Based on police intelligence, local underage prostitutes were offering their “services” for as low as RM300, he said.

Part of that sum would be divided by syndicate members.

“This means the 14-year-old girl would only receive RM150 as her cut,” said SAC Rohaimi.

“To afford a smartphone that costs around RM5,000, she would have had to entertain her customers 35 times,” he said.

> The same daily reported that Hong Kong actor Michael Tong Man-lung, 48, denied that he and actress Mandy Wong, 25, were dating.

Several tabloids recently highlighted the huge age gap between the two “lovebirds”.

Tong complimented Wong’s looks and intelligence, but insisted that they were merely close friends.

> The release of Disney’s live-action version of Mulan has been pushed back by more than a year, reported Sin Chew Entertainment.

The movie, which was slated for release on Nov 2 this year, has been postponed to March 27, 2020.

The movie, directed by Niki Caro, stars Chinese singer-actress Liu Yifei as the titular heroine.

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.

