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San Francisco is getting its first NFT-based restaurant and private club. And it’s being built right in the middle of a public park. A flurry of recent press releases from an entity named the Sho Group — a “global experiential hospitality platform” — revealed the details of the ostentatious Japanese-themed restaurant and private club, to be built on San Francisco’s most ostentatious public space, Salesforce Park. The restaurant, slated to open sometime next year, will include the members-only Sho Club Sky Lounge and will be perched atop the western end of Salesforce Park’s four-block stretch in a neighborhood no one...

PARIS (AFP) - Scores of events unfolded to mark road safety as the theme of World Health Day amid warnings that China and other fast-track developers in Asia face a bloody epidemic of road deaths. "Many countries in Asia have rushed to embrace prosperity and on the way, there are many bodies, figuratively and literally, lying on the road," Lee Jong-wook, director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), said Wednesday. "This is the other side of the coin of rapid development. People now are rushing to get a car," he said in an interview with AFP. "Clearly they have do...