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Morning Digest, May 4
Netizens praise father who made his 11-year-old daughter pick lotus roots for 4 hours in the heat to teach her value of education, she suffered sunburn & peeling skin
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A video of a crying girl was posted on the Chinese social media site Weibo recently by the girl’s own father. In it, she can be seen in some water, under the sun. Her father, a Mr Ye, who lives in Hubei province in China, said that he brought her to the lotus field where her grandfather works and had her dig lotus roots for four hours in the heat.
“My daughter was going through a period of rebellion, and her teacher told me that she did not want to go to school anymore,” Mr Ye is quoted saying in the South China Morning Post as reported in the Chinese news outlet Yidian Zixun. In the Weibo video, which went viral, Mr Ye can be heard telling his daughter, “Take off your shoes quickly and get into the water. If you do not want to go to school, you must surrender to the reality of life.”
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Borders finally open! Crocodile rejoices as it returns home to Singapore from Malaysia, or is it the other way around?
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Now that the borders are finally open, nature appears to be jumping on the bandwagon. And by nature, we mean a saltwater crocodile, which was recently filmed in the waters off Lim Chu Kang.
A TikToker who goes by @suttheburger on the platform first posted an eight-second video of the croc, nose shining in the sun, swimming determinedly along amid a backdrop of high-rise buildings in Malaysia that provide a stark contrast.
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A woman looked to social media to ask for advice, as she was torn between her longtime boyfriend, whom she looked down on because of his low salary, and a possible new partner, who’s earning a lot higher income. However, many netizens reacted fiercely, telling her that her boyfriend “deserves better”.
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CCTV: ‘Ghost cat’ scares off thief from robbing woman’s house
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When a woman reviewed her closed-circuit video (CCTV), she was shocked to see an intruder in her house. Though the robber managed to snatch her handbag and wallet that were left on a table, it was the shot showing the man becoming terrified of seeing something before fleeing that grabbed attention the most.
The video became viral on Twitter and the woman with the Twitter handle @ainaarhn posted several frames of the video and explained what could have gotten the intruder to be so frightened that he bolted from the house.
Read more here.