Jess Lee secures spot in singing competition finals
SINGER Jess Lee Kar Wei has made it to the grand finale of Chinese reality singing competition Singer by default when no other contestant stood up to challenge her in last week's episode, Sin Chew Daily reported.
The 37-year-old Malaysian performed Thousand-Year Love by the Taiwanese rock band Shin, which was described by the show's host as being of 'cosmic-level difficulty'.
Once again, Lee's bold song choice paid off as no one else was brave enough to challenge her position as one of the four defending singers last week, thus paving her way to the finals by default.
As ecstatic Lee said returning to Singer 2025 after being away for a decade was the highlight of her life and she was in peak form.
'Whether it's the stage or the act of singing itself, I have a deep obsession with it,' she said.
It was reported that last week's episode was the last elimination round before the grand finale on Aug 8 where there are four defending singers including Lee, A-Lin, Terry Lin and Alexia Evellyn. The rest are challengers.
> A lion dance coach is believed to have been barred from schools in Johor after being accused of sexual harassment.
Sin Chew Daily received reports from a concerned parent claiming that the coach had sexually harassed and shown pornography to female members in lion dance troupes across a few schools.
He added that many parents were fearful and disappointed that no action had been taken against the coach despite police reports being lodged.
When contacted, the two principals at the schools involved said the coach was no longer teaching there.
One of them said they will follow all directives from the Johor State Education Department.
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.
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