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Gesture of solidarity: Yeap (in red mask) gazing at herself in the mirror as her long hair, which she had kept for more than a year, is cut for a good cause at a salon along Karpal Singh Drive in Penang.
GEORGE TOWN: A cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy not only has to suffer health side effects, but also hair loss.
To show her support for patients fighting cancer, arts and craft teacher Yeap Poh Looi, 43, turned up at a salon in Karpal Singh Drive to donate her locks.
Yeap said it was her third time chopping off her locks for charity.
COMMENT | The real emergency is the climate emergency!
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COMMENT | If your house was on fire, it would be ridiculous to sit around saying “Let’s carry on as usual and we can replace the old electrical wires by 2050”. No, we would urgently call the emergency services and expect them to respond quickly to save as much as possible, using the skills in which they have been trained and drilled.
As teenager Greta Thunberg famously told world leaders at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos on the Climate Crisis: “Behave as if your house is on fire, because it is.”
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Indonesia: Floods in South Kalimantan - Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA) DREF Operation MDRID021
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Indonesia has high level of precipitation and is prone to flooding during rainy season. According to Indonesia’s Disaster Mitigation Agency, areas prone to flooding in Indonesia are approximately 39,371,167 hectares. These areas are inhabited by approximately 100,814,666 people. Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency (Indonesian: Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, dan Geofisika, abbreviated BMKG) predicted the peak of La Nina would occur across the months of December 2020 and January 2021. The peak of La Nina is coinciding with the peak of the rainy season which usually occurs between January and February. The simultaneous occurrence of these two events has triggered heavy rainfall across the country. Since December 2020 PMI has responded to around 14 different flooding events across several provinces. The most recent event, whic