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Affordable is accessible

Twenty-one medicines used to treat a range of health ailments, including medications for cancer, diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, high cholesterol, tuberculosis, and mental illness, will be more affordable after the Bureau of Internal Revenue exempted them from the 12 percent

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Plastic waste everywhere

A research team at the Department of Science and Technology’s National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) has found about 60 percent of particles pulled out from bangus samples in Butuan City and Nasipit in Agusan del Sur province were

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Asserting ownership

The Armed Forces of the Philippines has rightly rejected the ridiculous claim of the Chinese coast guard that the Philippines was allowed to air drop supplies for its troops on the BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal through “temporary special

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Missing out on early education

When it comes to early education in the Philippines, which was also included in the 398-page Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom II) report, it was found that lack of government support for the sector’s workers and insufficient day care

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Waste management warnings

It has been found that around 90 percent of the 12 million pieces of marine litter collected from the coastline of Manila Bay is plastic, highlighting the need for stricter policy implementation and an integrated marine waste management plan. The

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Inequitable distribution and utilization

Fewer students classified among the “poorest of the poor” are receiving tertiary-level education assistance from the government, with the number of beneficiaries sharply dropping by more than 130,000 from 2018 to 2022, according to a report by the Second Congressional

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Learning from Manila traffic

Metro Manila traffic made the national headlines again last week after the 2023 TomTom Traffic Index ranked the capital city as having the worst traffic congestion among 387 metro areas in the world. Even Coldplay’s Chris Martin commented on it

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Overloaded teachers

The Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom II) has found that teachers have been feeling “overburdened” by the additional “ancillary and administrative” tasks given to them by the Department of Education and various government agencies, which could eventually hamper their

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Justice system shortcomings?

The persistent reports that probers of the International Criminal Court were in the country last December, which has struck fear in the hearts of those involved in former president Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs that is being investigated as

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The nuclear threat

Despite North Korea and Iran pushing ahead with their nuclear plans and Vladimir Putin having threatened to use Russia’s nuclear weapons, important red lines have not yet been crossed, said French nuclear expert Bruno Tertais in an interview with AFP.

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