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MANILA: A new bill filed in the Philippine Congress seeks to introduce the teaching of Arabic into the school curriculum to increase awareness of Muslim culture and traditions in the Southeast Asian country where a sizeable minority professes Islam. Muslims constitute roughly 5 percent of the nearly 110 million, predominantly Catholic population of the Philippines. Muslim

North Carolina House legislators discussed conservation and natural resources, George L. Burgess Act, Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce, for-profit credit repair services, Board of Natural Resources, criminal interference with critical infrastructure, revenue and taxes.

The Senate set an ambitious agenda for Thursday, placing 27 measures on a Rules Calendar front loaded with some of the most contentious issues of the session. Among the first six bills...

According to their calculations, Amnesty International South Africa says 2 983 South African (SA) schools still use pit toilets

How do you go from a successful school to one in shambles? Dr BW Vilakazi Secondary in Zola North, Soweto, is one such school. Having registered the poorest matric 2022 performance in Soweto, we visited the school to find out more.

Rep. Jose Francisco Benitez (4th from left) with Senators Pia Cayetano (3rd from right, front row) and Sherwin Gatchalian (5th from left, front row), with

Build One South Africa leader Mmusi Maimane has called on the President to remove SA's top ten weakest ministers. Here is the list.

EDUCATION and environmental stakeholders are meeting in Dar es Salaam for two days to deliberate on the crucial area of education for sustainable development (ESD), with the aim of promoting the contribution of learning content to the survival and prosperity of humanity. The high-level meeting c ...

In 2015, 20 visually impaired people participated in the project "Training The Visually Impaired To Write Books", organised by the Book Studies Foundation, the Department of Cultural Promotion, Ratchadamnoen Contemporary Art Center and Butterfly Book. The project aimed to improve visually impaired people's writing skills and let them figure out their own writing styles. When the visually impaired author, Sarocha Kittisiripan, participated in the project, she discovered many talent...

Cumulatively, the alleged annual loss to corruption within just one of South Africa’s 24 state-owned enterprises costs the country more than all of its school feeding, early childhood development feeding and emergency food aid programmes combined.