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A philanthropic man in China who has never married nor had his own kids, has emerged as a “father” to more than 700 of the country’s children. Wang Wanlin, 80, from Hangzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang province has been providing shelter to wandering children he found on the street since 1979. Wang met his first “son” on the street one evening when he was 34. The 15-year-old child was shivering in the cold weather, and told Wang he just escaped from an exploitative coal mine in another Zhejiang city. He said he was tricked into going there from his hometown in Jiangsu province north of Shanghai. Wang took him home and bought him a train ticket a week...

This hot desert area has not seen rain in five centuries and it’s so dry it’s gained a reputation for its record-breaking lack of precipitation. The Atacama Desert, in Chile, is the driest non-polar desert on Earth and it’s also the site of a rare phenomenon. Spanning over 600 miles along the Pacific Coast of South America, it is one of the most extreme landscapes on the planet. Some areas of the desert have received zero rainfall throughout recorded history, making the Atacama Desert the driest place on Earth. In other areas of the desert where tiny amounts of rainfall have occurred over the years, a rare phenomenon has taken place.   (The desert spans over...

A plate of peeled bananas has appeared on the corner of a quiet street in Nottinghamshire once a month for over a year - but no one knows why. Residents in the commuter town of Beeston have noticed up to 20 bananas delicately placed on the corner of Abbey Road and Wensor Avenue. Residents have no idea who is behind the strange custom or its meaning. All everyone can say is that the banks have been appearing in the same spot for more than a year, and despite several signs asking whoever puts them there to stop, it doesn’t look like the mysterious fruit is going away anytime soon. Some have speculated that the plate of honey-drizzled bananas has some sort of religious meaning, while...

Chinese youth have increasingly turned to purchasing annual memberships at Disneyland as a unique way to engage in their studies while embracing the concept of “doing the most painful thing at the happiest place in the world.” This trend emerged last March, sparked by several young individuals who shared their experiences of studying at the Shanghai and Hong Kong Disneyland parks. A university student from Hong Kong expressed to Haibao News that she chose the theme park as her study location because the uplifting music resonating throughout the park offered her solace amid the pressures of her academic workload. She invested in the premier Platinum annual pass, priced at...

Gold, shiny yellow metal has been valued throughout history for jewelry, currency, and investment. The steady rise in gold prices reflects increasing investor interest in the yellow metal amid global market fluctuations. What if we tell you that a massive 1,000-ton gold deposit, valued at approximately €78 billion (600 billion yuan) has been found! One of the largest finds in recent history, this discovery is likely to shake up the global gold market and drive economic growth. Well, this massive yellow metal deposit has been discovered in Pingjiang County, Hunan Province, China. According to the news report in Indian Defense Review, the gold deposit lies within the Wangu gold...

Sam Altman, in a court filing late Wednesday, asked a federal judge to take a look at the letter Elon Musk sent on Monday in a bid to take over OpenAI for $97.5 billion. The request, filed with a federal judge in California, is Altman's latest move in fighting Musk's yearlong lawsuit seeking to halt OpenAI's transition into a fully for-profit entity. Altman argues the letter is relevant to that battle. His new filing asks US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to let him use it to show that Musk is contradicting himself when he fights OpenAI's efforts to go for-profit. He's asking Gonzalez Rogers to add the letter to everything he's already filed in fighting Musk's request that the...

**(Xports News Reporter Kim Ye-eun)** The interior of actress **Song Hye-kyo’s** home has been revealed. On the 16th, a new video titled **"Part 2! Not Me, Song Hye-kyo’s Vlog..."** was uploaded to **Davichi’s Kang Minkyung’s YouTube channel, "강밍경"**. The video captured Song Hye-kyo’s natural daily life. In the video, Song Hye-kyo and Kang Minkyung visited a **"gopchang (grilled intestines) restaurant"**, drank together, and then headed to Song’s home. At the staircase inside Song’s house, her pet dog **Ruby**, who is like a daughter to her, was waiting. Song immediately ran to Ruby to show affection, and Kang Minkyung reacted warmly to...

A Los Angeles home that was reduced to rubble in the January Palisades fire has become one of the hottest properties on the market, drawing more than 60 offers and entering escrow for well over $1 million — despite being listed for just $999,000. The once four-bedroom wood-and-stucco house in Pacific Palisades was worth an estimated $2.7 million before flames tore through the area. Now, it’s little more than a scorched lot with two standing chimneys. But that didn’t stop a flood of investors eager to cash in on a rebuild.   (Once valued at $2.7 million, it is now in escrow for over $1 million, highlighting the demand for fire-ravaged properties despite ongoing...

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Real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital and Singapore-based investor Patience Capital Group have completed the acquisition of Tokyu Plaza Ginza, a prime mall in central Tokyo, in a deal worth more than $1 billion, Gaw's Japan head said on Friday. The Hong Kong-based investor said it had formed a joint venture for the acquisition and management of the property in which it holds 91%, with the remaining 9% held by Patience Capital Group. The deal is the latest in a run of major property transactions in the hot Japanese market. Canadian firm Brookfield Asset Management last month closed two real estate investments in Japan for a total of $1.6 billion. "With favourable macroeconomic...