JJ Lin fans from China fall victim to fraudulent ticket scam
OVER 20 Chinese nationals were scammed out of over RM40,000 after discovering their tickets for Singaporean singer JJ Lin's concert at Stadium Bukit Jalil were fake, reported Sin Chew Daily.
With Lin's concerts sold out in China, his Chinese fans travelled to Malaysia specifically to attend the 'JJ20' FINAL LAP World Tour in Kuala Lumpur on May 10.
Some even paid as much as RM5,000 for VIP seats, only to be denied entry at the stadium as their tickets were fake.
One of the victims set up a chat group for some 20 other victims from China to share their experience of being scammed.
They have collectively made a police report in Malaysia.
> A man in China's Henan province quit smoking after his wife contracted lung cancer, reported China Press.
'I tried quitting before but was never successful. Now, for the sake of my family, I will no longer smoke,' said the man, who was a smoker for four decades.
The man's wife saw a doctor after experiencing a cough and tightness in her chest. The husband, 58, said he started smoking when he was 15 and had never been able to quit the habit.
When the story came to light, many Internet users criticised the husband for his actions, saying that they were tantamount to murder.
'What is the use in quitting now that she is diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer?' one netizen asked.
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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