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"A group of indigenous Taiwanese left on Monday to paddle to the Philippines on a hand-built wooden canoe across the Bashi Channel, reviving a maritime route dormant for hundreds of years and re-establishing a lost cultural connection."
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"Teen trust levels in Northern and Western Europe have declined over the last decade, while Eastern and Southern Europe saw gains. Danish teenagers now rank below peers in Romania, Poland, and Bulgaria on measures of social trust."
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"The Philippine government has consistently operated as an agent that prioritizes short-term consumer pacification over long-term agricultural sovereign strategy."
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"The government said that 90 percent of parents who responded backed a minimum age of 16 for access to social media and that 85 percent said the risks of social media outweighed the benefits."
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"...last week’s package is a welcome, if belated, recognition that dependence on US tech companies isn’t just an economic problem – it’s a direct threat to the continent’s independence, resilience and security."
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"Inflation in the Philippines remained above target in May at 6.8%, while Vietnam's annual inflation rate rose to 5.6%. Indonesia's headline rate is lower, but a 32% rise in some non-subsidized fuels has added to cost-of-living concerns..."
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"In our case, the Americans forged an alliance with our traditional landed oligarchy to govern the country. This partnership with the local elites made it politically impossible for the Americans to implement Japanese-style land reform here."
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"Because wealth and status remained tied to vast landholdings rather than industrial output, local elites (like the Zobels, the Ortigases, the Elizaldes, the Madrigals, the Cojuangcos and the Negros sugar barons) reinvested in risk-free real estate and agricultural monopolies..."
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Jun 15
MILLIONS OF CAVITE COMMUTERS WHO HAVE WAITED SO LONG DESERVE ANSWERS
Senators Mark and Camille Villar are reportedly blocking the continuation of the Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1) extension project in Cavite, according to Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla.
“We are investigating (the claims). The project should’ve extended to Cavite by now, but we’re still verifying rumors that the Villar senators were going against the alignment. They want the rail system to traverse their lands,” Remulla told radio dzRH on Saturday.
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Double standard in the treatment of the poor and the rich remains relevant and continues to drive the wrong conversations in Philippine society.
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Ateneo and accountability is a farce. Men for others is just a tag line. Don't ever believe that Ateneans are concerned about the poor. They only use the poor for their own selfish interests.
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"When an institution places a higher value on its reputation and brand than the lives that make that reputation possible, there is something deeply wrong, a fundamental flaw in the underlying culture that must be exorcised."
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WHO instructed Tab Baldwin to “limit” his public “apology” to just “four minutes”?
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Recall... How the Ateneo plays Yellowtard “activist” to cover up its own “dark” past of support for the Marcos “regime” 😮
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