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New Yorker paid $3 for yard-sale bowl; ancient artefact later sold for $2.225m

A remarkable discovery unfolded in 2007 when a New Yorker purchased a small white bowl for merely three dollars during a yard sale. For years, this bowl was displayed proudly in their home until appraisers revealed its true worth: a rare 'Ding' ware from the Northern Song dynasty valued between…

The Times of India · Oct 14

Chinese Valentine’s Day is rooted in legend and tradition, not just romance

Chinese Valentine’s Day, or Qixi, is more than just flowers and chocolates

The Independent UK · Aug 20

South Korea’s blind fortune-tellers eclipsed by AI

SEOUL - Clients have drifted away from Song Oh-soon’s fortune-telling village on the edge of Seoul, preferring online AI-powered divination to the centuries-old prophesying tradition still practised there.

Bangkok Post · Aug 13

Hafta 535: World Press Freedom Day, aftermath of Pahalgam attack

In a special episode for Press Freedom Day, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by historian and author Ramachandra Guha. The panel begins with a discussion on the history of press freedom in India. Ram reflects on the similarities and differences between 1975’s Emergency…

Newslaundry · May 3, 2025

China jails researcher for taking germplasm out of country

State security ministry calls germplasm ‘chips’ of agriculture

The Independent UK · Apr 15, 2025

KPMG Women's PGA Championship Tee Times: Round Two

Lexi Thompson leads the third Major of the LPGA Tour season by one stroke from World No.1 Nelly Korda and Thai superstar, Patty Tavatanakit

Golf Monthly · Jun 19, 2024

Inflatables, hip-hop rallies, and a missile alarm: Taiwan to vote in election that’s too close to call

Voting begins on Saturday in the most closely watched election in Taiwan since its first in 1996 amid the existential threat of China

The Guardian - AU · Jan 12, 2024

Chicago Med Said A Big Goodbye In Season 8 Finale, And I'm Flashing Back To Another Classic Medical Drama

Chicago Med is losing another character in a twist that left me reliving an iconic moment from another medical TV show.

Cinemablend · May 25, 2023

Review: The laughs and the corpses pile up in the Chinese blockbuster 'Full River Red'

The knives are out and then some in "Full River Red," a murkily entertaining exercise in twist-twist-stab-stab from the Chinese director Zhang Yimou. Set over a long, dark and increasingly bloody night at a Song Dynasty military fortress, this 12th-century comic mystery opens with a touch of "Macbeth" — a…

Los Angeles Times · Mar 17, 2023

A "Long, Long Time" for Linda Ronstadt

How Ronstadt's plaintive song from the '70s resonates with the singer and on HBO's post-apocalyptic series

Salon · Jan 30, 2023