PRC steals credit cards from NTU matesParents can't recognise SKIN & BONES daughter in court China scholar so stressed she turns anorexic, weighs only 35kg at 1.7m Depressed, she steals credit cards from NTU schoolmates SHE was so thin that her parents could not recognise their only daughter. By Chong Shin Yen 21 August 2007 SHE was so thin that her parents could not recognise their only daughter. Hu Weiming, 20, about 1.7m tall, weighed only 35kg - down from 65kg a year ago. Standing in the dock, Hu looked frail. Her bones were jutting from her skeletal frame. Her mother, Madam Sha, 50, a marine engineer, realised the girl in the dock was her daughter only when a court officer called out her name. That was in May when Hu, a Chinese national, was charged in court with theft and cheating. Her parents didn't know it, but she was suffering from anorexia and depression because she had been stressed out by her studies in Singapore. Madam Sha told The New Paper in Mandarin: 'I could not believe tha (more...)

PRC steals credit cards from NTU matesParents can't recognise SKIN & BONES daughter in court China scholar so stressed she turns anorexic, weighs only 35kg at 1.7m Depressed, she steals credit cards from NTU schoolmates SHE was so thin that her parents could not recognise their only daughter. By Chong Shin Yen 21 August 2007 SHE was so thin that her parents could not recognise their only daughter. Hu Weiming, 20, about 1.7m tall, weighed only 35kg - down from 65kg a year ago. Standing in the dock, Hu looked frail. Her bones were jutting from her skeletal frame. Her mother, Madam Sha, 50, a marine engineer, realised the girl in the dock was her daughter only when a court officer called out her name. That was in May when Hu, a Chinese national, was charged in court with theft and cheating. Her parents didn't know it, but she was suffering from anorexia and depression because she had been stressed out by her studies in Singapore. Madam Sha told The New Paper in Mandarin: 'I could not believe tha (more...)