Singer Fei to call it quits after next concert tour

TAIWANESE singer Fei Yu Ching’s

(pic) concert tour next year will be his swansong, Sin Chew Daily reported.

After 45 years in show business, he wants to bid farewell to his fans through concerts in Taipei and Kaoshiung.

Fei, 63, announced his retirement in a handwritten letter on Sept 27.

In the letter, he voiced his gratitude and said he had no regrets in life, though he lost a sense of belonging after his parents died.

Despite the applause and glittering lights of the stage, he said, his loneliness remained.

“I would like to slow down and learn to live a simple and quiet life,” he added.

Fei is known for his soulful rendition of songs such as A Spray Of Plum Blossoms and Good Night Song.

He endeared himself to younger fans by collaborating with Mandopop singer Jay Chou on the hit ballad Faraway in 2006.

> Oriental Daily reported that many provinces in China such as Zhejiang and Jiang Xi, which have restricted teachers and students from embracing any religion, have extended the ban to medical officers.

The Zhejiang Maternal and Child Health Hospital came out with an agreement stating that medical officers could not attend religious activities or spread religious teachings or ideologies to the workers. This was to ensure that the hospital could operate systematically. Anyone caught breaking the agreement would be fired.

> The tombstone of a 25-year-old Russian woman featured a “screensaver” of her face, China Press reported.

Located in the Russian city of Ufa, the tombstone was in the shape of an iPhone.

Rita Shameeva died in a car accident in January 2016. Her 30cm-high headstone, which also has a QR code on its base, stood above others in the cemetery.

The owner of a funeral parlour said there were other unique tombstones, such as one modelled after a car belonging to the deceased.