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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

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

New on Paramount+ in August 2026: All the new shows and movies to watch

All the movies, shows, and sports events on Paramount+ in August, plus our top picks for the month.

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South Korean grandmother, 90, jailed for laundering drug money

She was accused of laundering money for her son serving a prison sentence in Cambodia on drug trafficking charges

The Independent UK

This cyberpunk platformer with an Overwhelmingly Positive Steam rating just got a completely free expansion

Sanabi: A Haunted Day takes place before the main game.

PC Gamer

Awful and Awesome Ep 387: The Royals, Flintoff, subscriber letters

While discussing The RoyalsAbhinandan: You’re saying Bhumi Pednekar is good in this? Is she the redeeming factor?Rajyasree: No, she's horrible in this…But it has worked in her favour because everyone has logged on and watched the show. Abhinandan: Why?Rajyasree: Because it’s so bad. Everyone trashed it so everyone logged on and…

Newslaundry

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…

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China jails researcher for taking germplasm out of country

State security ministry calls germplasm ‘chips’ of agriculture

The Independent UK

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

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

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

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

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

Wilko Johnson’s second act was every bit as belligerent and explosive as his first

Before a miraculous recovery from cancer made him more famous than ever, the Dr Feelgood guitarist fired up 70s rock with proto-punk playing and divisive songwriting

The Guardian - UK

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Bob Dylan's 'The Philosophy of Modern Song' book is a love letter to music — and, um, polygamy

Bob Dylan doesn't think much of the current state of songwriting or of contemporary pop music, two points underscored in his sometimes dizzying, sometimes confounding, but rarely less than absorbing new book, "The Philosophy of Modern Song." But he does think polygamist marriages are greatly underrated, about which more in…

The Walrus

How Canada’s Bob Dylan Ended up a Taxi Driver

Poet and songwriter Bill Hawkins rubbed elbows with Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, and other stars. Why didn’t he become one himself?

The Guardian - UK

Harry Styles review – joy, tears and conga lines at Harry’s house party

This first solo stadium show from the ex-One Direction star is a delight, thanks to his catalogue of great songs – and megawatt charisma

Reuters

'Stop asking why': Shanghai tightens COVID lockdown, Beijing keeps testing

Shanghai authorities were tightening the city-wide COVID lockdown they imposed more than a month ago, prolonging into late May an ordeal that China's capital Beijing was desperate to avoid by turning mass testing into an almost daily routine.

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