The SIM Card Registration Act
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PHILIPPINE STAR/KRIZ JOHN ROSALES The unregulated purchase, use, and deactivation of SIM cards made it difficult for law enforcement agencies to identify…
Too much English in our universities?
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CLARISSA WATSON-UNSPLASH PROFESSORS and researchers in the Philippines compete within a global arena of science and scholarship. To do so, they use…
Asia’s factory output weakens on global economic slowdown
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REUTERS/ALY SONG/FILE PHOTO TOKYO — Asia’s factory output weakened in October as global recession fears and China’s zero-COVID policy hurt demand, business…
South Korea vows tough action, moving to quell anger over Halloween crush
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A WOMAN places a floral tribute near the scene of a crowd crush that happened during Halloween festivities, in Seoul, South Korea,…
India to press wealthy countries to keep climate fund pledge
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REUTERS NEW DELHI — India will use next week’s U.N. climate conference to urge rich countries to keep their promise to give…
Biden threatens to impose windfall tax on oil, gas firms
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REUTERS WASHINGTON — US President Joseph R. Biden on Monday called on oil and gas companies to use their record profits to…
Shein to open first physical store in Tokyo’s Harajuku
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TOKYO — Chinese fashion retailer Shein said on Tuesday it would open its first bricks-and-mortar store in Japan this month, in a…
APO Hiking Society’s Danny Javier releases one final OPM song
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APO Hiking Society: Boboy Garrovillo, Danny Javier and Jim Paredes — BW FILE PHOTO THE MAN who coined the phrase “Original Pilipino…
Macau mass tests its population after COVID-19 infections
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HONG KONG – Macau carried out mass testing of its 700,000 residents on Tuesday after the emergence of COVID–19 cases in the past week, including at a major casino that prompted authorities to…
Indonesia revokes firms’ fever syrup licences amid inquiry into 150 deaths
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JAKARTA – Indonesia‘s food and drug agency said on Monday it had revoked licenses for syrup-type drug production by two local firms for violating manufacturing rules, as it investigates the deaths of…