Lakers’ fundamental infirmities
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Listening to the Lakers talk about the 2022-23 season, you’d think Lakers head coach Darvin Ham has managed to invent a new…
Addressing the Philippine education crisis: Upskilling, reskilling and retooling
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LIFESTYLEMEMORY/§FREEPIK (Part 2) If we have the goal of transitioning from being an upper middle-income economy to a high-income economy (with a…
A revitalized US alliance: Pivot, or slow boat back to Washington?
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BW FILE PHOTO On Sept. 29, 2022, Philippine Department of National Defense (DND) Undersecretary and Officer-in-Charge Jose Faustino and US Secretary of…
POGOs: What’s at stake?
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(I am pleased to share with readers a post that Christine Tang and I wrote for subscribers of Globalsource Partners [globalsourcepartners.com], a…
Panalo ka ng 1 million: The proliferation of text scams and breaches of data privacy
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BW FILE PHOTO Apart from the much-awaited text message that your Lazada or Shopee delivery is out for delivery or the OTP…
Tutoring service reports learning gaps in K-to-12 students
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A tutoring service reported gaps between students’ skills and their grade level upon assessment. “We are seeing 2–3 years learning gap in…
N. Korea conducts longest-range ballistic missile test yet over Japan
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KCNA VIA REUTERS SEOUL/TOKYO — Nuclear-armed North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years on…
Ukraine estimates $35B in environment damage from Russia invasion
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MAX KUKURUDZIAK-UNSPLASH BRUSSELS — Environmental damage in Ukraine caused by Russia’s invasion was estimated at around 36 billion euros ($35.3 billion), with…
Diageo boss warns on Scottish water shortage
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JACEK DYLAG-UNSPLASH LONDON — Diageo PLC’s Chief Executive Ivan Menezes believes Scotland could face a water shortage due to climate change unless…
UN pushes for cut in global fertilizer prices to avoid ‘future crisis’
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JONATHAN ANSEL MOY DE VITRY-UNSPLASH GENEVA — The United Nations is pushing to cut the price of fertilizers to avoid a “future…