Compiled by C. ARUNO, CHAN MAY THENG and R. ARAVINTHAN

       TAIWANESE actress Barbie Hsu (pic) revealed that she is not planning to have any more children despite having recently remarried, reported Sin Chew Daily.

       “I will not hold a wedding reception and I will not have any more children. My family and my children were touched (when I made the announcement),” Hsu said.

       It was earlier reported that Hsu, 45, married her former boyfriend and South Korean musician DJ Koo, 52, just three months after her divorce with Chinese businessman Wang Xiaofei.

       Koo and Hsu used to be a couple 20 years ago.

       According to Hsu, she kept her plans to get married a secret from her family and travelled to South Korea alone.

       She only told them the night after she registered her marriage.

       It was earlier reported that right after hearing she was divorced, Koo contacted Hsu and asked her hand in marriage.

       “When I got divorced, he phoned to ask me to marry him. I am thankful we’ve had the courage to pursue happiness,” she said.

       > A father in China’s Jiangxi province apologised to his son-in-law during the wedding for forcing his daughter to break up with him a decade ago, reported China Press.

       According to local press Jinan Times, a decade ago, the father was unhappy that his daughter was dating someone at school and he forced them apart by transferring his daughter to another school.

       “I forced the two of you to be apart for 10 years.

       “And ten years later, both of you are standing here. I am deeply shocked, deeply happy, and I admire you (the groom).

       “It is father’s tiny heart which harboured suspicions against a morally upright gentleman,” the father admitted during the wedding.

       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.