KUCHING: Caretaker deputy chief minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas and his wife Datin Doreen Mayang cast their votes at Rh Mendit Unsu longhouse in Spaoh on Saturday( Dec 18) morning. Having previously served as Betong MP since 1986, Uggah was roped in to contest the Bukit Saban state seat in the 2016 state polls. Spaoh is located in the Betong division, about 250km from the city. Uggah, who is seeking a second term as Bukit Saban assemblyman, is facing PKR's Mikail Mathew Abdullah and Part

KUCHING: The 12th Sarawak state election has been" most difficult and challenging" due to the Covid-19 standard operating procedures( SOP) in place during campaigning, says Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas. The Gabungan Parti Sarawak( GPS) election director said while the SOP was strict in urban areas, it was also restrictive in rural areas.He said unlike previous elections, public rallies or ceramah and entertainment events were either banned or only allowed with restrictions." Also in the past,

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Rescuers search for victims of drowning in a river in Ciamis, West Java, Indonesia, on Oct.... Local officials said 150 students from an Islamic junior high school were participating in the cleanup Friday along the banks of the Cileueur river bank when 21 of them slipped into the water.... " The weather was good and there was no flash flood," said Deden Ridwansyah, chief of the Bandung Search and Rescue Office....

A nun and two novices had moved to the area years earlier and had begun resurrecting an 11th-century church from its ruins. Led by the abbess, Elizabeth, the group of three slowly grew, so that by the time Mr.... By then, the church had been completely restored.“ At a time when change is coming rapidly to everyone, these nuns are quietly offering the world their prayer — and finding ways to sustain age-old traditions.... Behold Vermont, From AboveCaleb Kenna has worked as a freelance photograp

HONOLULU— Kuulei Perreira-Keawekane could barely breathe when she went to a Hawaii emergency room.... Hawaii was once seen as a beacon of safety during the pandemic because of stringent travel and quarantine restrictions and overall vaccine acceptance that made it one of the most inoculated states in the country.... Still, she doesn’t consider herself pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine.“ Having to choose one or the other is the root of trauma for Native people, ” she said....

On a recent summer morning, Lynn Hirsch was determined as she packed the back of her gray SUV with 20 aluminum pans of lasagna.... But this time, she wanted to do something different — help feed those in the Georgia cities of Chatsworth and Dalton who had been requesting meals but couldn’t get them because of a lack of volunteer chefs in their areas.... Many of the lasagna meals have provided comfort to Americans facing health challenges, or loneliness during the pandemic....