MALAYSIAN singer Fish Leong (pic) broke down during her concert at Kaohsiung Arena in Taiwan, Guang Ming Daily reported.

       The 43-year-old queen of love ballads teared up at the end of her hit song Unfortunately Not You.

       Wiping her teary eyes, she thanked her fans and said she did not know what overcame her as she sang the last two words.

       Her concert was initially scheduled for June last year but postponed due to Covid-19 concerns.

       At the concert – her first at the arena in her 22 years as a singer – Leong also thanked her fans for wearing face masks throughout the show.

       At her concert in Taipei Arena last year, the songstress also got tearful two nights in a row.

       The Negri Sembilan native and Taiwanese businessman Tony Chao divorced in 2019 after nine years of marriage. They have joint custody of their son, now aged seven.

       > Food does not just unite but it disunites too, as a man from Dongguan in China’s Guangdong province found out.

       He broke up with his girlfriend as he claimed that she had kissed him after eating luosifen, a pungent snail-based rice noodle soup.

       According to China Press, the man caught his girlfriend buying the noodle at a roadside stall and berated her, telling her he did not want to see her again.

       The woman was furious and kicked the man’s motorcycle before storming off. Later, he explained that his girlfriend did not brush her teeth after eating the noodles.

       “The smell is intolerable when she kisses me. I even have nightmares of being chased by a huge luosi (snail),” he said.

       > Chinese-American actress Fala Chen, 40, is garnering attention after playing Ying Li, mother of the titular character Shang-Chi in Marvel’s first Asian superhero movie, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, reported Oriental Daily.

       In an Instagram story uploaded by actress Meng’er Zhang, 34, who played Chen’s daughter Xu Xialing in the blockbuster, both are seen having a great time outdoors.

       ● 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.