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A simple online system that could end plastic pollution
It was once a shoreline buried by enough trash to render it invisible, warranting the unfortunate nickname “toilet bowl”. Now the Philippines' Manila Bay beach is unrecognisably clean compared with a few months ago, a transformation so sudden and extreme that it brought tears to the eyes of residents.
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BAVARIA, Container Ship - Here's how to track the Canadian garbage that's making its way home from the Philippines.
It's about time.
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Want to Graduate? Here, You May Soon Need Gardening Gloves
Philippines bill would mandate students plant at least 10 trees each before graduating
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Canada's garbage to be removed from the Philippines by end of June
A shipment of illegal garbage that ended up in the Philippines nearly six years ago will be returned to Canada by the end of June 2019.
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Duterte calls for ‘collective action’ on climate change
President Rodrigo Duterte has called on different countries to have a “collective action” on climate change amid the concerning impacts of weather disturbances on developing countries. During the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in China, Duterte thanked countries that helped the Philippines in times of calamities and called for a more “proactive measures” on climate change.
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New species of early human found in the Philippines
An international team of researchers have uncovered the remains of a new species of human in the Philippines, proving the region played a key role in hominin evolutionary history. The new species, Homo luzonensis is named after Luzon Island, where the more than 50,000 year old fossils were found during excavations at Callao Cave. Co-author and a lead member of the team, Professor Philip Piper from The Australian National University (ANU) says the findings represent a major breakthrough in our understanding of human evolution across Southeast Asia.
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New species of ancient human discovered in Philippines cave
Homo luzonensis fossils found in Luzon island cave, dating back up to 67,000 years
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No, Your Instagram ‘Influence’ Is Not as Good as Cash, Club Owner Says
A small-business owner on an island in the Philippines has become a local hero for pushing back at the growing number of international travelers who introduce themselves as “influencers” as a way to get free food, drinks and lodging. He made his stand on Siargao, a tear-drop-shaped island long popular with surfers. In recent years it has also drawn a large number of travelers who believe that their vacations should be free so long as they make Instagram stories, according to several local business owners.
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Philippine president says he will 'really kill' molesting priests
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said he would “really kill” child molesting priests, in his latest broadside against the Catholic Church. Speaking on Sunday at a campaign rally in Cagayan de Oro City, Duterte said it would be “a better world” if all molesting priests were “killed tonight.” Duterte has been at odds with the country’s Catholic Church since before he took office in 2016.
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Inside the Video Surveillance Program IBM Built for Philippine Strongman Rodrigo Duterte
Law enforcement in Davao City familiar with the IBM program said the technology had assisted them in carrying out Duterte’s controversial anti-crime agenda. By George Joseph.
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Rodrigo Duterte calls on the Church to allow priests boyfriends
Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte has called on the Catholic Church to allow priests to have boyfriends. In a shocking speech given at a groundbreaking ceremony for a school near the capital Manila on Friday Duterte claimed 'most priests are gay' as he doubled down on a previous claim that 'almost 90 per cent' of the clergy are homosexuals. 'Only I can say bishops are sons of b*****s, damn you. That is true. Most of them are gay,' he said.
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‘Don’t pay for these idiots’: Duterte wants Filipinos to ditch Catholic mass, pray at home instead
Turning up his war of words with the Catholic Church, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte now wants citizens to ditch mass, calling the church’s teachings out of touch and its bishops corrupt. “You build a chapel on your own house and pray there. You don’t have to go to church to pay for these idiots,” Duterte said in a speech reported by ABS-CBN, the largest media conglomerate in the Philippines.
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'If it's cancer, it's cancer': Rodrigo Duterte says state of his health is in question
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has raised questions about his health when he said in a public address that he had gone to a hospital for tests, one day after he missed a cabinet meeting and another event. Duterte has disappeared from public view before. He was not seen for a week last year, fuelling speculation he was ill. The government insisted then the speculation was baseless.
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The last Kalinga tattoo artist, Whang Od
Meet Whang Od. She lives in the Philippines and is the last master of the art of traditional, hand-tapped Filipino tattoos.
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Thousands evacuated in the Philippines ahead of super typhoon Mangkhut
A super typhoon roared toward the Philippines on Thursday (Sept 13), prompting thousands to evacuate ahead of its heavy rains and fierce winds that are set to strike at the weekend before moving on to China. Typhoon Mangkhut, which has already blasted through the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, is speeding across the Pacific with winds that can gust as high as 255km per hour. Authorities said some 10 million people in the Philippines are in the storm’s path, not including millions more in heavily-populated coastal China.
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Duterte tells Obama: I’m sorry
In a speech during his meeting with members of the Filipino community here, Duterte recalled how he cursed Obama in public for criticizing his war on drugs and for telling him to uphold human rights. According to Duterte, Obama should know not to criticize a country for the problems that it is trying to solve.
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Rodrigo Duterte slammed after 'dangerous and distorted' rape joke
Rodrigo Duterte has been condemned by women's rights groups after the Philippine president joked about the number of rape case in the southern city of Davao. At a public event on Thursday, Duterte suggested that the high number of rape cases recorded in Davao was due to the 'many beautiful women' in his home city. "They say there are many rape cases in Davao," Duterte said at the event in Cebu. "Well, for as long as there are many beautiful women, there will be many rape cases, too."
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'They are taking out a generation of tuna': overfishing causes crisis in Philippines
Raul Gomez is an old man who fishes with five crew on a clipper in the seas known as the coral triangle, and he has spent two months now without taking enough to feed his family. Riding out storms and searing heat in western Pacific waters, the burly, sun-inked Filipino uses a pole and line to reel in yellowfin tuna the size of an adult human. This has been his trade for 40 years, but it is becoming tougher as fisheries in this region – one of the planet’s most important centres of tuna production – face the prospect of total collapse.
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U.S. to return colonization era church bells to the Philippines
The United States will return to the Philippines church bells seized by U.S. troops as trophies during a war between the two countries more than a century ago, giving way to Manila after years of diplomatic pressure. U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has notified Congress that the department plans to return the Bells of Balangiga to the Philippines at a date yet to be identified, the U.S. Embassy in Manila said in a statement on Saturday.
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Philippines president Duterte says he will quit if someone can prove God exists
Rodrigo Duterte sparked outrage in his largely Roman Catholic country by saying that if just one Christian told him truthfully that they had been to heaven and had a conversation with God, he would quit. He also attacked the Catholic Church for collecting funds from members, accusing it of using donations to "maintain the palaces and the luxurious things that the rest of humanity do not have".
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