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Google Doodle honors Sarawak-born ethnographer Benedict Sandin

[ad_1] PETALING JAYA: Google honored Sarawak-born folklorist and ethnographer Benedict Sandin on Sunday (October 18) by featuring him in his doodle on the occasion of his 102nd birthday. Sandin served as the curator of the Sarawak Museum, Borneo’s oldest museum. He was born in 1918, in the Kerangan Pinggai longhouse …

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Global COVID-19 Cases Rise in Record Day to 400,000

[ad_1] NEW YORK: Global coronavirus cases rose by more than 400,000 for the first time on Saturday (October 17), a record one-day increase as much of Europe enacts new restrictions to curb the outbreak. Europe, which successfully suppressed the first wave of infections, has become the new epicenter of the …

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