Monkey laundering: Wild animal stuns woman by hand-washing her clothes in Indonesia Ayu Sarasyani had left a bowl full of dirty clothes soaking in water and detergent While inside her South Kalimantan home, a cheeky monkey decides to help out The primate imitates the woman by soaping, scrubbing and rinsing the clothes By Sabi Phagura for … Read more
Fifteen Asia-Pacific countries on Sunday signed the world’s biggest free trade deal, seen as a huge coup for China in extending its influence amid the pandemic. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has been struck as the world’s financial markets have been destroyed by coronavirus. China’s is one of the few economies to have successfully weathered … Read more
Fifteen Asia-Pacific countries on Sunday signed the world’s biggest free trade deal, seen as a huge coup for China in extending its influence amid the pandemic. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has been struck as the global economy buckles under the train of coronavirus. One of the few countries to successfully weather the storm has … Read more
First child burial from the Holocene era is unearthed in Indonesia that shows their arms and legs were removed after death 8,000 years ago Remains found in a cave are the first known child burial from the Holocene era The child was believed to be between four to eight years old when they died Their … Read more
Protests against Emmanuel Macron have continued across the Muslim world in the wake of his comments over depictions of the Prophet Mohammed. In Jakarta, more than 2,000 demonstrators wearing white Islamic robes gathered in front of the French embassy to express their outrage, and burned an effigy of the French President. Meanwhile in Bangladesh, at … Read more
No other Caribbean country has endured such a tumultuous modern history as Grenada. The Cuban and Russian-backed revolution of the early Eighties ended with the American invasion (referred to in these parts, quaintly, as the ‘intervention’) then, just as the country was finding its feet, along came Hurricane Ivan in 2004 to flatten the place … Read more
The real Shawshank Redemption: Chinese drug trafficker facing death sentence escapes jail by digging a 100ft tunnel through sewage pipes using a screwdriver in Indonesia Cai Changpan was sentenced to death in 2017 for trafficking 230-pound meth The Chinese man escaped from a Indonesian jail after digging a 100-foot tunnel He even invited his cellmate … Read more
Two Boeing plane crashes that killed 346 people in five months were the ‘horrific culmination’ of design flaws, poor government oversight and a lack of action by the planemaker, investigators have said. Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration were both criticized in a scathing report by the House Transportation Committee after the crashes in Indonesia in … Read more
Two Boeing plane crashes that killed 346 people in five months were the ‘horrific culmination’ of design flaws, poor government oversight and a lack of action by the planemaker, US investigators have said. Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration were both criticized in a scathing report by the House Transportation Committee after the crashes in … Read more
THAT’S a water cooler moment! Kitten is rescued after getting stuck in a plastic bottle The kitten was taken to the local fire department in Jakarta, Indonesia by a local He had found the unfortunate animal with its head poking out a water dispenser Using a small saw, a spoon and surgical precision, firefighters rescued the … Read more