Author: Eliza

PHOENIX — Code Talker Thomas H. Begay and others commemorated Navajo Code Talkers Day on Sunday morning in Phoenix, honoring their contributions that have been credited with helping the United States win World War II.

At a memorial located by the Wesley Bolin Plaza, Begay, one of the last three Code Talkers alive, said the holiday is to remember those that didn’t return from their service.

“We honor today to remember those code talkers that never came home,” Thomas H. Begay said. “During the World War II, the Navajos had developed the best code that was never broken by the enemy of the United States of America.

“It was the hardest thing to learn, but we were able to develop a code that cannot be broken by the enemy.”

The Code Talkers communicated messages in the Pacific during World War II using a code with their native speech —

SHANGHAI, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Sanya, a top tropical holiday destination on China’s southern Hainan island, began closing its duty free malls on Friday in response to a worsening COVID-19 outbreak.

Since China shut its international borders in early 2020 to curb the spread of COVID-19, Hainan’s duty-free industry has boomed, becoming a vital channel for global brands from Gucci to Coach, La Mer to L’Oreal to reach Chinese shoppers.

But Sanya International Duty Free City in Haitang Bay, run by China Duty Free Group (601888.SS) and Hainan’s largest offshore mall, shut for an undetermined period on Friday to prevent COVID-19 spreading, a post on its Weibo account said.

This closure comes even though no cases in Hainan’s current outbreak have been detected in Haitang Bay as yet. While the case numbers in China are small compared to the rest of