It's a classic prank, but still amusing nonetheless. In eastern China, four men decided they would pay for their wedding gift, totalling 6,888 yuan (S$1,403), in coins. On Aug 13, in Yantai, Shandong province, the men took a bag containing 42kg of coins - which required two people to carry - to their best friend's wedding, according...
From the street, 670 Union Street looks like one in a line of brick buildings on a tree-lined block in Brooklyn. But inside, exposed timber beams, columns and floorboards make it clear this 14-apartment condominium is no typical New York City building. "Timber House is the first mass-timber condo building in the city, perhaps the state," Eric...
Just recently, Meta, the parent company of Facebook released a statement mentioning that they will be closing down Facebook’s live shopping feature. Facebook live shopping was introduced back in 2018 for users to sell their items online. It became a hit back in 2020 when the pandemic hit as people around the globe were hit with a stay-at-home order. In...
In recent years, selling and buying things online have become the norm. Of course, this opened up a whole new market for people. One of the ways people sell their goods now is by live streaming as it allows them to show off the goods and market their things in real time. Unfortunately, no matter how...
China's military announced fresh military drills on Monday (Aug 8) in the seas and airspace around Taiwan - a day after the scheduled end of its largest ever exercises to protest against last week's visit to Taipei by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. China's Eastern Theatre Command said it would conduct joint drills focusing on anti-submarine and...
A story about a four-year-old boy in China giving three salutes to a policewoman who helped him apply for an identity card (ID) has touched millions online on the mainland. The unnamed boy from Fuyang in Anhui province in eastern China visited his local police station with his mother and older brother last Friday (Aug 5) to...
Hong Kong is easing Covid-19 entry rules for international arrivals from Friday (Aug 12), requiring them to remain in a hotel for three days before undergoing four days of "home medical surveillance" that will allow limited movement into areas where vaccine pass checks are not mandatory. The long-awaited cut from seven days of mandatory quarantine in...
Police in New Mexico on Sunday (Aug 7) asked for the public's help in locating a "vehicle of interest" in their probe of four fatal shootings of Muslim men whose slayings in Albuquerque over the past nine months are believed by investigators to be related. The latest victim, police said, was gunned down on Friday night,...
YouTuber Darryl Ian Koshy, who committed various sexual offences, including offering cash to a boy below 18 for sexual services, was jailed for 32 weeks on Friday (Aug 5). Better known as Dee Kosh, the 33-year-old will begin serving his sentence on Friday. Koshy had pleaded guilty in May to one charge of offering cash to a...
Tencent Holdings, China's most valuable company, will cancel free breakfast and dinner perks for its contract personnel in line with efforts to cut costs, according to two such employees who received that internal notice. Those personnel, who are outsourced by third-party firms to work at Tencent for a predetermined period and sum of money, were told...
