Gambling of Taiwan Artist in Singapore

Jay Chou blows RM4.6mil in Singapore casino in two days

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Compiled by ZUHRIN AZAM AHMAD, BEH YUEN HUI and A.RAMAN

TAIWANESE pop star Jay Chou lost nearly S$2mil (RM4.6mil) at a casino in Singapore, Nanyang Siang Pau reported.

The superstar had visited the Marina Bay Sands Casino during his con­­­­­­­­­­cert tour in the republic last month.

He gambled off between S$100,000 and S$200,000 (RM232,000 and RM463,000) per bet. In just two days, Chou lost almost S$2mil (RM4.6mil) playing bacarrat.

A customer of the casino said Chou was accompanied by his manager and male friends.

According to the customer, Chou had good etiquette on the gambling table and he only wanted to be served by “aunties”.

> China Press reported that a pedestrian who was allegedly knocked down by a former Roma­nian diplomat to Singapore has won the civil suit.

The Singapore court, in default judgement, ruled that diplomat Dr Silviu lonescu has to pay Bong Hwee Haw for damages and the amount would be decided later.

Bong had earlier sought more than S$639,000 (RM1.5mil) in damages.

Ionescu was allegedly involved in a hit-and-run accident last December in Singapore that killed Malaysian Tong Kok Wai, 30, and injured Bong, 24, and another pedestrian.

The diplomat is currently being detained in Romania.

> The daily also reported that a coroner’s court in Singapore has ruled the death of Vernon Leong Jun Wei, 31, as misadventure.

Leong fell off the rooftop of the Hilton Singapore hotel on his wedding night in November last year.

A forensic report revealed that the alcohol level in Leong’s body was 161/100ml — double the legal limit.

Evidence and closed circuit television footage showed that the drunk and disoriented Leong had got lost in the hotel’s fire exit stairway.

He could have stumbled in the dark and accidentally fall to his death.

Thirty-five weeks later, his wife Kerin Peh, 27, leapt to her death from her flat.

> Other News & Views is 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 sub-heading, it denotes a separate news item.

Adapted from http://thestaronline.com/news/story.asp?file=/2010/8/21/nation/6894074&sec=nation [Credits to The Star Online]