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AP PHOTOS: Dragon boats thunder through Hong Kong waters to mark ancient Chinese festival

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 119 points, or 0.3%, while the Nasdaq composite edged up by less than 0.1%. They finished the week with even more modest losses than the S&P 500.

Asiyah smiles as she describes what Mondoliko was like when she was young: Lush green rice paddies, tall coconuts trees and red chili bushes grew around the some 200 homes people lived in. She and other children would play in the local soccer field, watching snakes glide through the grass while butterflies flew through the air.“Everyone had land,” she says. “We were all able to grow and have what we needed.”

AP PHOTOS: Dragon boats thunder through Hong Kong waters to mark ancient Chinese festival

But around 10 years ago, the water came — sporadically and a few inches high at first. Within a few years it became a constant presence. Unable to grow in salt water, the crops and plants all died. With no land left as the water got higher, the insects and animals disappeared.Asiyah says she and other villagers adapted the best they could: Farmers swapped their crops for fish ponds; people used dirt or concrete to raise the floors of their homes above the water. Net fences were put in yards to catch the trash the tide would bring in.For seven years Asiyah, her husband Aslori, 42, and their two children lived with the floods, the water getting higher every year. But they noticed changes as well: Neighbors were leaving their homes behind in search of drier land. The call to prayer at the village mosque went quiet. Even new fish ponds became futile, the water rising so high that the fish would jump over the nets.

AP PHOTOS: Dragon boats thunder through Hong Kong waters to mark ancient Chinese festival

She remembers the day she decided they had to leave her lifelong home. Her father, who lived with them, had been battling bone cancer and prostate issues, and some days he was so frail he couldn’t stand. Her son was getting bigger and faced an increasingly difficult, waterlogged commute to school over 2 miles (about 3 kilometers) away.“I was worried when the road flooded — how can we go about our daily lives?” she remembers wondering to herself. “The kids can’t go to school or play with their friends. ... We can’t live like this.”

AP PHOTOS: Dragon boats thunder through Hong Kong waters to mark ancient Chinese festival

The flood water getting higher, she told her husband that it was time to leave.

Asiyah and her husband Aslori pose for a photo outside their old house that they abandoned due to flooding in Mondoliko, Central Java, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)STING: No one calls me by my real name.

SHAGGY: Really? Well, that’s my new name for you. I’m going to start calling you that, Gordon (laughs as Sting sticks his tongue out playfully). My wife calls me Orville.STING: Only when you’re in trouble. (laughs)

Shaggy poses for a portrait on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP)Shaggy poses for a portrait on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP)

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