Compiled by C. ARUNO, GERARD GIMINO and R. ARAVINTHAN
HONG Kong comic Stephen Chow’s new pup successfully picked out the winner of the Fifa World Cup 2022 final, China Press reported.
The French bulldog named Kio, who was adopted by Chow earlier this year, was pictured placing its paw on the Argentinian flag when asked which team would win.
“So, it’s this team! I’m going all in bro! I don’t care if I ever get back up. All in!” Chow posted on Instagram.
The post alone garnered 39,000 likes just hours after being posted, with fans pointing out that the prediction must come true as even a French bulldog, which was originally bred in France, would pick the Argentinian team as the winner.
“It seems Kio is a supporter of Messi,” one wrote.
In the photographs uploaded, Kio was seen wearing a yellow jersey and shorts from Chow’s iconic movie Shaolin Soccer.
Kio wore the number nine jersey, a reference to his nickname Zero-Zero-Nine which paid homage to Chow’s role as secret agent 007 in the 1994 James Bond parody From Beijing with Love.
Chow is known to be a dog lover and had introduced Kio to his followers on Instagram in November.
> Malaysian singer and film director Ah Niu’s mother passed away at 72 from kidney failure on Sunday, Sin Chew Daily reported.
The 46-year-old, whose real name is Tan Kheng Seong, is currently back in Sungai Puyu, Penang, to attend his mother’s wake.
Ah Niu was unable to hold back his tears when speaking about his mother, pointing out that the last performance she saw was held at the Kampar campus of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman during a Mid-Autumn Festival event earlier this year.
“It was very sudden. But when I look back, she had done all the things she wanted to do.
“Even so, I feel the time I spent with her will never be enough,” he said.
Ah Niu added that his mother had weak kidneys and was forced to undergo dialysis every week for the last few years of her life.
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.