Still together: Derek and Venus had a good laugh over the rumour said to have started after she deleted their photos on social media.

       Compiled by C. ARUNO, ALIZA SHAH and R. ARAVINTHAN

       HONG Kong actor and TV host Eric Tsang has brushed off talk that his son’s marriage is on the rocks, Sin Chew Daily reported.

       “It’s preposterous,” said Eric, 69, adding that he had dined with the couple just a few nights ago.

       “The next day, (reports say) they are divorced. I was thinking to myself, ‘Have times changed so much? Or did they have a fight that night?’” he told reporters during an event promoting the TV drama Happy Ever After?.

       There was speculation about the state of the marriage between filmmaker Derek Tsang, 42, and his wife actress Venus Wong, 30, when she deleted all photos of them together on social media.

       Wong, who was present at the event with Eric and is one of the lead actresses in Happy Ever After?, claimed that the photos were deleted for work purposes.

       “My husband came back for three days before flying off to the United Kingdom again for work. (When the news came out), I forwarded it to him.

       “Both of us had a good laugh,” she said.

       Derek is currently directing the pilot episode of Netflix sci-fi series The Three-Body Problem, based on the novel by Liu Cixin.

       > A woman in Changchun, China, ended up having to spend 4,900 yuan (RM3,256) for a 14-day quarantine at a designated centre after she was caught breaking lockdown rules to forage for wild vegetables, China Press reported.

       The woman, who is believed to be hungry due to a shortage of provisions stemming from the lockdown, went out in search of a variant of the dandelion known as “popoding”, which is literally translated as “grandmother’s nail”.

       However, she was spotted by enforcement officers.

       When the news became widely shared online, many Internet users sympathised with the woman but others made jokes about it.

       “This must have been the most expensive ‘popoding’ in the world!” someone quipped, referring to the 4,900 yuan in quarantine costs.

       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.