Hong Kong-based TAL Apparel, which has diversified into the production of highly protective washable masks for the United States, is setting its sights on growth in the city and globally. The city faces a glut of disposable masks and TAL's face coverings represent a more sustainable option. "People should be well protected (against the coronavirus pandemic), but in a sustainable way," Roger Lee, the company's chief executive, said in an.
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Malaysia’s two emergencies: why 2021’s freeze on democracy is not like the trouble of 1969 Liew Chin Tong Deserted roads in Kuala Lumpur after a lockdown and state of emergency were imposed to curb the spread of Covid-19. Photo: Reuters
Amid soaring Covid-19 cases, the prolonged political crisis in Malaysia since a parliamentary coup in February last year came to a head on Tuesday when a state of national emergency was declared for the first time since 1969. At the time, parliament was suspended after racial riots broke out between Malays and Chinese in Kuala Lumpur, leaving almost 200 people dead. It only reconvened in 1971.
Indigenous and Asian slaves were the lifeblood of Western Australia’s early pearl industry Men carry baskets of mother-of-pearl onto a beach in Broome, Western Australia. Photo: Getty Images Aalingoon came into the bay and lives beneath the sea, wrote late Indigenous pearl shell carver Aubrey Tigan Galiwa, quoted in Lustre, a 2018 book about the Australian pearling industry. He comes out every full moon, when it s a big tide. As he floats on his back, as he drifts, the scales fall off his back, and turn into goowarn (pearl shells) as they drift down to the seabed below. The tides come in and chuck them everywhere, on the reefs, all around the islands. This way he always gives us more shells. This is a power. This is part of our ceremony.