JAKARTA - The waves were coming tall and fast, and aftershocks continued to shake bits of concrete from the half-collapsed hotel.
But Singaporean paraglider Ng Kok Choong, 53, sat for hours in pitch darkness, risking his life to comfort a woman lying trapped under rubble.
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