Asia in 3 minutes: Japan is scandalised by ‘free boobs’ on YouTube, India by a missing leg in hospital
Cambodian PM Hun Sen has an eye for Japanese contact lenses, murderers could soon lose their heads in Indonesian province Aceh
Doctors in India suspended after patient used lost leg for pillow
Indian authorities have suspended two doctors and launched an investigation after a patient’s severed leg was used as a pillow to prop up his head. Administrators at the public hospital in Uttar Pradesh vowed “strict action” after images appeared online of a patient on a stretcher with his amputated limb being used as a headrest. “We have set up a four-member committee to find out who put the severed leg under the patient’s head,” said Sadhna Kaushik, principal of the Maharani Laxmibai Medical College and Hospital in Jhansi. “Strict action will be taken if our staff is found at fault.” Two doctors have been suspended, she said.
What next? The man, 28-year-old Ghanshyam, was injured in a bus accident. His relatives told local media that staff ignored their requests that he be given a pillow. “We saw his leg being used as a headrest,” Janaki Prasad, a relative, told NDTV. “I repeatedly asked the doctors to intervene but they refused.” Kaushik said one of his relatives placed the leg under his head. “The doctor looked for something to raise his head. The patient’s attendant used the leg,” she told the Press Trust of India.
News flash: Three arrested over teenage girl’s YouTube breast stunt
Police in Japan referred a 16-year-old high school student to prosecutors on Monday after spotting her holding up a sign saying “free boobs” and allowing people to feel her breasts while her YouTube channel friends filmed her. The student from Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, allegedly dressed up as a bunny girl and allowed men and women to touch her breasts at Hachiko square in the Shibuya district, police said.
What next? An 18-year-old male high school student from Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture and a 23-year-old man from Mitaka, western Tokyo, were also referred to prosecutors for filming the event. The three friends said they wanted to boost the audience of their YouTube account and generate advertising revenue, according to the police. Their videos have not been uploaded. The three are charged with violating a Tokyo ordinance forbidding indecent acts by allegedly calling out, “These are all-you-can-touch boobs” on January 28, police said.
Cambodian leader praises Japanese contact lens company
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen, who lost an eye fighting for the Khmer Rouge in 1975, has spoken about the “extremely good” Japanese contact lens he has been using in his other eye for more than two decades. Speaking at an event about Tokyo funding road improvements, Hun Sen said some of his colleagues joked that he has a long-term vision for the country because of his good contact lens. “I visited Japan in August last year, meeting the same doctor who made my contact lens in 1997, and I only went there again 20 years later,” the prime minister said. “Normally, it is advised to change one contact lens after one year.”
