INTIMATE text messages between Taiwanese group Sodagreen's lead singer Wu Tsing-Fong and a man have come to light, major Chinese dailies reported.

INTIMATE text messages between Taiwanese group Sodagreen's lead singer Wu Tsing-Fong and a man have come to light, major Chinese dailies reported.

A reader of Taiwan's Next magazine found the SMSes on a mobile phone he picked up at a bar last month.

The mobile phone's owner confirmed he had interacted with Wu but claimed they had only communicated via Internet video calls and not met personally.

One of the messages from Wu read: “Of course to start from hugging and kissing, too shy to take bath together on first date.”

Confirming that the number belonged to Wu, his manager said however the singer had not been using the mobile phone for a long time and had left it with a friend.

“We will investigate further,” he said.

The singer-songwriter is also the founding member of the Indie band.

> Nanyang Siang Pau reported that Sweden planned to have all its schools teach Chinese within 10 years.

Its Education Minister Jan Bjoerklund said this was to enhance the students' competitiveness.

“I want to see Sweden become the first country in Europe to offer Chinese lessons in schools.”

Currently, English is the second language taught in Swedish schools, followed by Spanish, German and French.

> The daily also reported that ex-actress Brigitte Lin had written in her memoirs that she regretted not being able to save Hong Kong superstar Leslie Cheung's life.

Lin and Cheung, who jumped to his death in 2003, became good friends after acting together in Wong Kar-Wai's epic Ashes of Time in 1993.

The legendary actress said she knew Cheung was suffering from depression and had planned to introduce him to a doctor, but this was put aside after the SARS epidemic struck the region.

Cheung jumped to his death on April Fools' Day.