Remember A Day | Couple spending wedding night in jail, ‘computer doctor’ practising Chinese medicine and mother killing newborns: headlines from 40 years ago
- A journey back through time to look at significant news and events reported by the South China Morning Post from this week in history
A couple spending their wedding night in jail, a “computer doctor” practising Chinese medicine, and a woman killing her babies soon after delivering them made the headlines 40 years ago this week.
June 22, 1980
● A woman was arrested near the central Japanese city of Shizuoka on suspicion of having killed her six babies soon after giving birth to them over a six-year period. Police in Tokyo quoted the 38-year-old mother as saying she had been short of money during her 18 years of married life.
● The first high-rise block of luxury flats put up in Penang, Malaysia, would be demolished soon before completion. The 16-storey Northam Courts building, which was to be ready for occupation in August that year, had developed a dangerous tilt of almost one metre from the top. Experts had warned that the block of 64 flats, all of which had been sold, was likely to fall and the government had ordered the developers to tear it down.
June 23, 1980