Celebrity baby names are always one or the other: either a rather “normal” name or a truly unique one that has fans talking for weeks afterward. Hollywood is no stranger to unique baby names, but something rather unique is when quite a few celebs have the same name for their children. We all remember the…
A father in China spent seven years moving across the country to hide his daughter from his ex-wife, deceiving her into believing that she would be sold if discovered by her mother. According to mainland media outlet Kankan News, 22-year-old Chen Jiayuan’s parents divorced when she was just six years old. Although custody was awarded…
A company boss in China set up 252 tables for his daughter’s grand wedding, then refused to pay the 520,000-yuan (US$72,000) bill. A pork vendor, surnamed Wang, in eastern China’s Zhejiang province said the boss of a local company, surnamed Qian, commissioned him to prepare food for his daughter’s wedding banquet in April. Wang said…
A Hong Kong father, previously sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his three-year-old daughter by shaking her to death in 2020, has filed an appeal against his conviction. A document made available at the High Court on Tuesday revealed that Lau Kai-ping, 42, had submitted an appeal against his conviction for one count…
A Hong Kong actress’s daughter who attends two kindergartens, eats, naps, and uses the toilet in her car has earned her mother the label “monster parent”. Li Tianzong, 37, also known online as Lena, was born in Hong Kong to a mother who is a renowned pipa player. The former Miss Hong Kong contestant has…
In the wee hours of the morning, several days after my husband’s death in 2003 from sudden cardiac arrest, I awoke out of breath, my heart racing. Would my daughters be able to stay in their schools? Could I continue to pay the mortgage on our home? When my husband accepted his first overseas diplomatic…
China’s so-called century baby has died at 25 from heart attack and is being remembered as a talented artist. From the moment she arrived in the world at midnight on January 1, 2000, Xie Yueqian made national headlines. One at the time read: “To the second, the standard century baby has arrived.” Her birth marked…
The daughter of an unemployed Hong Kong man who was accused of raping her 13 times over nine years has told a court she did not tell her mother about the attacks because the latter had herself been abused and could not protect her. The High Court on Tuesday heard the testimony from the defendant’s…
A three-year-old girl who was allegedly murdered by her father was loved by his family but that still could not have saved her from being abused by him, her mother told a Hong Kong court on Tuesday, describing the accused as a “dangerous man”. Helen Leung said she and her daughter’s father, Lau Kai-ping, had…
So many of our daughter’s friends had cell phones, some even got them in elementary school. She was able to get by without one for a while, but I became her default social coordinator. We reevaluated our needs in 8th grade and got her a phone when she was 14. Several years ago, my husband…