HE wanted his girlfriend to stop playing mahjong and come home early, but when the woman refused to do so, he killed a dog to teach her a lesson.

       “Don’t worry. You can continue to play mahjong to your heart’s content but I will let you see a dead body inside (the house),” said the man, identified only as Guo.

       China Press quoted local reports in Taipei that Guo, 55, killed the poodle belonging to his girlfriend’s son as he was angry with her for being out playing mahjong.

       A screencap of their phone showed Guo threatening the woman by hanging the dog by its neck.

       Based on the screencap, he made two more phone calls to his girlfriend before sending a photo of the dog to her.

       “It’s dead,” he wrote.

       The screencap went viral, prompting Internet users calling for Guo to be punished for animal cruelty.

       When Guo was contacted by the Taipei City Animal Protection Office, he confessed to the crime.

       His girlfriend also kicked him out of the house while her son applied for a restraining order against Guo on his mother’s behalf.

       > Popular Chinese singing reality TV series Sing! China is speculated to have a new line-up of judges with Malaysian singer Fish Leong being tipped to be one of them, Sin Chew Daily reported.

       The Negri Sembilan-born artiste has a list of mega hits in her 20-year career in the music industry. It led to her being known as the Queen of Love Ballads.

       Among her popular songs, which have become karaoke staple, include Courage, Unfortunately Not You, and Pain that Breathes.

       Many Internet users felt that Leong deserved being a judge in the show.

       Sing! China began airing in 2016 and is based on the original The Voice of Holland.

       It featured a panel of four judges who would appraise the participants and guide their teams through the remainder of the season.

       The winner of each season is determined by live audience voting via text messages.

       It was reported in March that Hacken Lee and Li Ronghao will be returning as judges for Season 7.

       ● The above article 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 this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.