“ For younger girls, they wear the rings for tourism.” The Kayan are a small ethnic minority that

Kayan, in Sarawak. For a young sape player, Nikita Sarna, 11, the youngest performer at the

JAKARTA: Australia's Fortescue Metals Group and China's Tsingshan Holding Group could invest billions of dollars to build an industrial estate for metal smelting near a planned hydropower plant on Kalimantan, an Indonesian minister said. The companies have been in talks since early this year about the project and minister of maritime affairs and investment, Luhut Pandjaitan, has said smelting of iron, nickel and copper ores at the estate could start as early as 2023. Fortescue could invest$ 12 b

BEIRUT( Reuters)-Two Lebanese lawmakers charged in connection with the 2020 Beirut port blast have been re-elected in the first poll since the catastrophe, leaving some families of victims fearing further delays in a stalled investigation into the explosion.... Many in Lebanon blame the disaster, which killed more than 215 people, on safety failings by senior political and security officials.... The investigations are secret so the exact charges against them have not been made public. Rima Zah

KUCHING: It was past midnight and Siki Balarik was still out and about, pitching flags along the stretch of a lonely road somewhere in Belaga. She shared a photograph with this reporter, where the only light in that pitch dark area came from the headlights of her car." It( campaign) is tiring but there is a lot to be done," she told The Star as she catches a breather before resuming her election work. Aside from showing what she was up to, the 50-year-old election hopeful was trying to prove a p

Scientists have released a paper positing that the pandemic could have started in India.... Western officials have criticized Beijing for trying to conceal the outbreak when it first erupted. Here are the latest updates and maps of the pandemic.... In other developments: Russia began vaccinating thousands of people in Moscow on Saturday, kicking off a campaign that will expand nationally next week....