Tag Archives: WorldNews

Exclusive: U.S. axed CDC expert job in China months before virus outbreak

?m=02&d=20200322&t=2&i=1506774949&w=1200

Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned.

topNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA topNews?i=5DuEPN34UJc:nB6NRk3aVEQ:V_sGLi topNews?i=5DuEPN34UJc:nB6NRk3aVEQ:-BTjWO

‘Language carries our custom’: the keepers of Torres Strait’s traditional lingo

2048.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=8

Phillemon Mosby works on Poruma to strengthen the sleeping Kulkalgau Ya language he was taught by his grandmother

In a community garden on the island of Poruma in the late 1980s, Lillah Pearson never stopped speaking Kulkalgau Ya to her grandson, Phillemon Mosby.

Kulkalgau Ya, spoken on the central islands of the Torres Strait, is one of the four dialects of the Kala Lagaw Ya language.

Continue reading…

French designer gives away homemade masks during Covid-19 crisis

4300.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=8

Brigitte Thivet posts advice on how to make colourful masks for people in lockdown

French people confined to their homes during the national lockdown are being encouraged to engage in some not so haute couture during the coronavirus crisis.

A freelance designer has posted advice on how to make colourful face masks and is offering to give some she has made away for free.

Continue reading…