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SHAH ALAM: Seven employees of a driving institute in Jalan Kuala Selangor, Ijok, near here have been rescued after they were trapped for about 30 minutes due to a flash flood.
BATU PAHAT: A secondary school in Parit Raja here was damaged in a fire late Thursday (May 31).
Both the u.s. and puerto rican governments have said, not so fast. i mean, get this. you see this flag? pretty, right? but as recently as the 1950s, it was against the law to fly it anywhere in the country. why? because it was a symbol of independence. the ban is gone now. but so is the original flag. the shade of blue was changed to match the good old stars and stripes. but through it all, bomba has survived. [percussive music] it's incredible how, sometimes, culture can disappear. but a few people can bring it back to life. and then, it has a whole new existence. - we lost a lot. - when we t...
To share secret messages. certain moves or beats became codes and could be a protest or even a shout-out that they were plans to do something like open up a can of whoop ass and rebel. now when the colonizers finally got a clue about subversive messages buried in the beats, the ongoing battle to silence movements of independence began and have continued into modern times. - it was gag laws. - it is, yeah. - implemented, like, in the '50s. - in the '50-- 1950s? - yeah, yeah. - that late. - not that long ago. - yeah, yeah. - to break it up. - police would come, arrest people, you know. it-- it w...
And preserve their culture. ♪ bomba. ♪ - [laughs] - shit is hot. what are you playing that's so hot? - bomba, man. bomba. - that's bomba. what is bomba? - basically, bomba was developed mostly around the 1500s to 1600s. - that early on. wow. - yes, by the enslaved people that were brought during the slave trade and the colonization of puerto rico. and also, before the spanish came here, there were a native indigenous people, taínos. - right. right. - and so bomba is actually a mixture of the different ethnicities that came to the island. - it's a fingerprint of-- - fingerprint of puerto r...