The Daily Populous

RESIDENTS of Indonesia’s second largest city Surabaya can now pay for the bus in a novel way – by trading in used plastic.

“Passengers can travel around Surabaya for two hours for free,” Risma said as quoted by Indonesia’s Antara News agency.

Indonesia has also trialled building roads out of recycled plastic, rolling them out in Surabaya along Jakarta and Bekasi. »

French students returning from the summer break will no longer be able to use their phones during the school day.

Earlier this summer France banned all students under 15 from using all cellphones, tablets, and smartwatches at any point during the day.

The government is concerned that students are becoming too dependent on and distracted by their phones. »

Brazil’s oldest and most important historical and scientific museum has been consumed by fire, and much of its archive of 20 million items is believed to have been destroyed.

The fire at Rio de Janeiro’s 200-year-old National Museum began after it closed to the public on Sunday and raged into the night.

Collections that are over 100 years old,” Cristiana Serejo, one of the museum’s vice-directors, told the G1 news site. »

30 years on from Die Hard and the NYPD’s finest, John McClane, still has plenty of juice in the tank.

The cop-vs-terrorists action saga is set to continue in an upcoming sixth film, simultaneously following Bruce Willis as a 60-year-old McClane and a younger incarnation of McClane in his 20s.

And while the project has long been rumoured to be called Die Hard: Year One, the script has a different, cleaner title: McClane. »