Passenger outraged after driver's spit hits her
A WOMAN took to social media to express her outrage after her e-hailing driver spat out the window – only for it to land on her, Kosmo! Online reported.
She claimed the driver had been coughing non-stop since she got into the vehicle and had spit out the window multiple times.
'Just a minute into the ride, he started coughing and some of it splashed on me. I felt like crying but we were already near my house,' she wrote.
The post went viral, with netizens slamming the driver's behaviour.
'This is not only dirty but also unethical,' commented Ahmad Sufardi.
E-hailing driver, Qhe Fafa, said, 'I hold back even when I need to sneeze. The moment the passengers are out of the car, I sneeze. It's about making passengers feel comfortable.'
> Despite growing up in poverty, 18-year-old Naufal Zulkarnain Muhammad Anuar from Temerloh, Pahang, scored 9As in his SPM, Sinar Harian reported.
Raised by his disabled mother, Naufal said he's determined to change his family's fate through education.
Aspiring to become a cardiologist, Naufal hopes to help Malaysians suffering from heart disease. He's currently pursuing a foundation in medicine and health sciences at Sultan Zainal Abidin University (UniSZA).
> A wild elephant that has been damaging crops at a village in Kuala Lipis, is terrifying residents, Kosmo! reported.
Raubah Mat Lanar, 74, who lives near an oil palm plantation, said the elephant often roams near his home at night.
'I can hear it breaking branches and walking around at night.'
Another villager said efforts to chase the elephant away have failed.
'Our crops are destroyed, and we're worried it might attract more elephants,' he said, urging authorities to install an electric fence or relocate the animal.
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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