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Wednesday May 9, 2007

Retiree, 97, proposes to widow he hasn’t met before

By LOONG MENG YEE

newsdesk@thestar.com.my 

KUALA LUMPUR: He is a 97-year-old man who cannot hear very well and has lost almost all his teeth and hair, but he believes he still has the lovin’ feeling. 

Retiree Yong Chai Keng feels that he can provide happiness to a 38-year-old widow he has never met before.  

Yesterday, he proposed to her publicly. 

Unusual proposal: Yong showing a picture of the woman he wants to marry.

“The first time he came, we turned him away, thinking he was joking. But he returned in the afternoon and a few days later. 

“Personally, I do not think it is a good match, but since he sought my help, I am obligated to assist,” Chong told reporters yesterday. 

The woman whom Yong fancies is Tan Yi Huan, a widow from Perak with two children aged eight and three. Tan appeared in a Chinese newspaper last August to highlight her financial plight after her husband died. 

She is reportedly staying with her sister in Puchong. 

Yesterday, reporters asked Yong what he could offer Tan to give her happiness. The reporter had to shout the question near his ear because he could not hear very well. 

“I have my own house and rubber plantation. But the plantation belongs to my brother. I just want a fan poh (woman) to keep me company after my wife died last year,” said Yong. 

His late wife died after suffering a stroke years ago. She was in her 80s. 

Yong has written a letter to Tan saying that he loved her and if she wanted to contact him, she could call his daughter’s house in Kuala Lumpur. 

Meanwhile, Chong said he had not gotten in touch with Tan about the proposal because he did not know how to contact her. 

On another matter, Chong said two teenage girls reported missing last week had been reunited with their families.  

The two girls are friends and it turned out they had been staying with a mutual friend in Kelana Jaya.  

One of the girls, aged 15, had run away from home because her mother scolded her about going out with a boy while the other girl, aged 14, left home to find her friend after she received a call from the police wanting to know her friend’s whereabouts.  

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