Samantha, the hottie in pink from the Penang wedding thread below (scroll down), finally won her long-running court battle against a taxi company that owned the cab she was riding in when it crashed in Shanghai. She was only awarded ten percent of the US$1 million she was demanding but it should help. When we were up in KL last weekend, the story was running in the newspapers there -- Samantha is from Penang (Sandy's classmate) and not from Hong Kong as stated in the China papers. Apparently Samantha is less upset about the amount she was awarded than she is about her real age being revealed in the newspapers. I'm sure she said she was only 26 at the wedding in Penang last month!
Shanghai Daily news
Samantha Teoh, a 33-year-old Hong Kong pop singer, will get 750,000 yuan (US$97,403) compensation from China CYTS Shanghai Auto Service Co Ltd, company driver Shan Genbao, and a truck driver surnamed Chen for her injury in a traffic accident, the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court ruled yesterday.
On February 28, 2004, Teoh and her boyfriend took a taxi driven by Shan to their hotel. Shan soon realized he was going in the wrong direction and tried to make a U-turn, when a truck smashed into the right side of the car. Teoh was badly injured, suffering numerous broken ribs and internal injuries. The injuries have hindered her career, the court heard.
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