Compiled by C. ARUNO, ASHLEY TANG and R. ARAVINTHAN

       UNABLE to bear the mess left by those who have made offerings to wandering spirits in conjunction with the Hungry Ghost Festival, the residents of Kajang’s Taman Juara Jaya resorted to making complaints with the council, Sin Chew Daily reported.

       Local councillor Dickson Tan visited the neighbourhood where the complaints were made on Monday and found an entire roast pig, six roast chicken as well as a myriad of other food items such as cakes and sweets being left outdoors unattended.

       The ground was also filled with a large pile of charred remains of burnt paper offerings such as joss money.

       According to Tan, those who made the complaints said they saw a prayer ceremony being conducted there at 9pm on Sunday and the offerings had been left there since.

       Tan informed the council to come and clean up the mess.

       He said residents were allowed to conduct prayers but they must clean up after the ceremony.

       Food items should also be cleared so that they would not attract stray animals, he said.

       He urged residents to cooperate as he received three similar complaints on Monday itself.

       > Those who are fully vaccinated may be asked to get an additional jab after a reporter received notification from his MySejahtera app providing details of a supposed third vaccine dose, China Press reported.

       According to the daily’s reporter Kang Mun Kein, the app’s digital certificate on his phone showed a third QR code titled “Dose 3 of 2” recently.

       Thinking that it was a mistake, Kang restarted the app, which caused the third QR code to disappear.

       However, the QR code titled “Dose 3 of 2” reappeared several hours later on the app.

       The incident sparked speculation that the government is planning to administer a booster vaccine dose to the public and are making changes to the MySejahtera app in preparation for it.

       The appearance of the third QR code is believed to be a mistake while the app developers were conducting testing.

       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.