Viral 24-carat gold logo find turns old AC units into hot property in South Korea A 20-year-old air conditioner has suddenly become the hottest, most sought-after vintage find in South Korea after a video showing that its logo was made of pure gold went viral. The YouTube clip, titled “Is there gold in air conditioners?”, shows a Seoul-based gold shop owner known as Ringring Unnie examining a handful of crumpled metal pieces brought in by a customer. “What is this?” she asks on camera. “It was removed from an LG Whisen air conditioner. It was the logo attached to the front of... image
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Viral golden logo find turns old AC units into hot property in South Korea
A YouTube video revealing a pure gold logo on certain LG air conditioners has sparked a nationwide hunt for the 20-year-old units.
Putin vows victory in Ukraine as US and Russia prepare for Miami talks Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed confidence in victory for his war in Ukraine during a meeting with senior military officials on Wednesday amid a renewed diplomatic push to achieve a peaceful solution to the conflict. He said that more than 300 localities in the neighbouring country have been conquered this year alone. “Among them are also large cities that have been turned by the enemy into fortress nodes with permanent defensive installations,” Putin said. The Russian president said... image
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Putin vows victory in Ukraine as US and Russia prepare for Miami talks
Russian leader boasts of battlefield gains in Ukraine while his envoys prepare to meet the Americans this weekend.
Singapore fines man US$9,300 over vaping videos in deepening crackdown A 25-year-old man was fined S$12,000 (US$9,300) on Wednesday for posting social media videos and photos of himself holding or using e-vaporisers in Singapore. The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) said this is the first time it has prosecuted someone for posting images of himself vaping on social media. Krish Khalifa, who uses the account name “Rapperboya”, had posted several of these videos and photos on his YouTube, Instagram and TikTok channels between November 2023 and September 2024. He was... image
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Singapore fines man US$9,300 over vaping videos in deepening crackdown
Krish Khalifa became the first person to be prosecuted in the city state for posting clips of himself vaping on social media.
The quiet US-China tech contest for the future Power shifts begin in places most people never see – on assembly lines making batteries and robots, along transmission lines feeding data centre clusters, in local offices selling land and in labs training artificial intelligence models. The United States and China are using these quiet levers to construct different futures. The contest will be decided not by slogans but by who builds the most productive, trusted and durable infrastructure. Those choices will shape billions of lives. The global... image
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Opinion | The quiet US-China tech contest for the future
The competition will be decided by who builds the most productive, trusted and durable infrastructure. Those choices will shape billions of lives.
‘It’ author Stephen King tops US school book ban list amid censorship divide A new report on book bans in US schools finds It author Stephen King is the writer most likely to be censored, with the country divided between states actively restricting works and those attempting to limit or eliminate bans. PEN America’s “Banned in the USA,” released on Wednesday, tracks more than 6,800 instances of books being temporarily or permanently pulled for the 2024-2025 school year. The new number is down from more than 10,000 in 2023-24, but still far above the levels of a few years... image
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‘It’ author Stephen King tops US school book ban list amid censorship divide
PEN America’s report revealed a ‘story of two countries’, with most bans on LGBTQ and race content coming from Florida, Texas, and Tennessee.
HK$5 million worth of watches and jewellery stolen from luxury Hong Kong flat A luxury flat on The Peak in Hong Kong has been burgled, with losses exceeding HK$5 million (US$642,650), including luxury watches and jewellery, the Post has learned. Police received a report from security staff at the Villa Verde residential estate on Guildford Road after a domestic helper discovered signs of forced entry and ransacking inside the property at 11.15am. A police source said the victim, a 75-year-old expatriate, had left Hong Kong for travel last week, leaving only the domestic... image
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HK$5 million worth of watches and jewellery stolen from luxury Hong Kong flat
Police probe theft at Villa Verde estate on The Peak after domestic helper discovered signs of forced entry and ransacking inside the property.