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Environment 4 years ago

Art of trash: feting S. Africa's overlooked waste pickers

Across South Africa, thousands of "reclaimers" are helping the country recycle.

People 4 years ago

Gordon Felt: 20 years honoring the heroes of Flight 93

Gordon Felt knows the old mining land in Pennsylvania where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on September 11, 2001, by heart. He's been there about a hundred times since the attacks.

Books 5 years ago

Road to Jakarta International Literary Festival 2021 to explore ideas of heroism

Road to Jakarta International Literary Festival 2021 runs until Dec. 6 on YouTube and its website.

World 6 years ago

Citizen 'heroes' stop deadly Australian knife rampage

Police said a 21-year-old Sydney man with a history of mental illness is believed to have killed a woman of around the same age in a residential unit before going on the rampage across the city centre.

Entertainment 6 years ago

‘Avengers: Endgame’ press conference pays tribute to fallen heroes in unusual manner

Hosted by actor-slash-film director Jon Favreau, the press conference kicked off with a bittersweet moment as it showed empty chairs on stage.

SE Asia 6 years ago

Anger as wartime memorial in Malaysia calls Japanese troops 'heroes'

The Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia in the early 1940s was marked by brutality, and bitter memories still linger even after Tokyo made reparations and built friendships with its former enemies since the war.

City 7 years ago

Families threaten to remove heroes' bodies from Kalibata cemetery

The families of some national heroes have threatened to remove the bodies of their relatives buried in Kalibata Heroes Cemetery, following an attempt by the Indonesian Military (TNI) to evict them from a military housing complex in Menteng Pulo, South Jakarta.

People 8 years ago

Getting to know the newly named national heroes

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo announced four new national heroes on Thursday, namely Muhammad Zainudin Abdul Madjid, admiral Malahayati, sultan Mahmud Riayat Syah, and Lafran Pane.

National 8 years ago

Student dies after fainting during National Heroes Day ceremony

A student died after falling unconscious while participating in a flag-hoisting ceremony to commemorate National Heroes Day in Wonogiri, Central Java, on Friday.

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