Compiled by FAZLEENA AZIZ, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN

       A CHICKEN rice seller posted a photo of a perplexing order online from a customer who wanted “eggs from a rooster”, along with nine packets of chilli, with his chicken rice, reported Sin Chew Daily.

       The odd instruction, made via a food delivery app, included extra onions, which had to be “fresh or else I won’t feel comfortable eating them”. The customer asked for that much chilli sauce as he said “the chillies were tasty”.

       The individual also wanted three bowls of asam soup, which he claimed had come with his last order.

       Lastly, the customer wrote that he wanted “eggs from a rooster because I heard rooster eggs were tastier”.

       The photo of the order was widely shared online, with many Internet users sympathising with the seller and others guessing that it was an attempt by the customer to troll the seller by giving almost impossible instructions.

       The amount for the three plates of chicken rice and two marinated eggs came to RM22.20.

       > The National Union of Heads of Schools has urged the Education Ministry to reconsider the limit of three or four subjects per day in primary schools, reported Sin Chew Daily.

       The union’s president Lim Bee Khim said it was difficult for Chinese vernacular schools to implement the policy as they taught three language subjects.

       She explained that a typical timetable will allow pupils to have language subjects evenly spread out over the week.

       Limiting the number of subjects per day will mean schools having to squeeze four or five periods (two to two-and-a-half hours) of a single language class into one day, she said.

       Moreover, if a student misses a day at school due to illness, they will then have skipped a huge part of the week’s language classes, Lim said.

       The ministry has implemented subject limits in school timetables as a measure to ease the heavy schoolbag problem.

       Lim called on the ministry to consider allowing five subjects to ensure effective and comfortable learning.

       > Fans are hopeful of Zhao Liying reconciling with her ex-husband Feng Shaofeng after the two have been slated to star in the same film, reported China Press.

       Last year, the Chinese stars shocked fans when they announced that they were ending their marriage of two years.

       According to Chinese media reports, a movie company had approached Feng and Li Bingbing to be the lead actors of a new production but the latter declined after reading the script.

       A source close to the matter revealed that Li then recommended the role to Zhao, who accepted it readily.

       Zhao and Feng married in October 2018 and had a son in March 2019.

       They went through what was described as an amicable divorce in April 2021.

       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.