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THE Philippine delegates of the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) 10th Conference of the Parties (COP10) tainted the country’s efforts in taxing tobacco and reducing smoking prevalence, according to a local civil society organization. The Sin Tax Coalition said through a statement that the Philippines…

The crop has managed to generate US$896 million in gross export earnings.

The Council of Europe (CoE) is calling for a global ban on artificial intelligence (AI) practices - from amplification of disinformation to mass surveillance - that are not only unethical, but undermine democracy and democratic processes. (ANSA)

Russia is withdrawing from the 1956 fishing rights agreement forged with the UK by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, reflecting how wide the gulf between Russia and the West has become after two years of war against Ukraine.

The Government is taking steps to put into operation the Sexual Harassment Tribunal in the new parliamentary year, to address sexual harassment complaints. This was announced by Governor General Sir Patrick Allen in his presentation of the Throne...

Republic status, NIDS high on Government agenda, says GG

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Good for business but bad for women In her 2021 book Unwell Women ,1 the feminist historian Elinor Cleghorn charts the long and troubling story of medicine’s approach to women, their bodies, and their illnesses. From Plato’s description of “vexed and aggrieved” wombs that wandered throughout the body wreaking physical and mental havoc, to the exclusion of women from clinical trials until the late 1980s,2 women, Cleghorn notes, have been subjected to a gender bias “ingrained in medical ...

Linwood Scott III climbs two-story tobacco cropping machines with real agility and apparently no thought to falling. The sixth-generation tobacco farmer is proud of his machinery, upgraded 20 years ago and therefore relatively new. He delights in every tool and accoutrement of the cropping, curing, and baling process: every trailer, every sawed-off school bus that pulls those trailers, every conveyor belt, every one of his 200 small curing barns.Scott, in his early fifties, is from Lucama, North

The Government has set as one of its key legislative priorities for the upcoming parliamentary year amendments to the Companies Act. Governor General Sir Patrick Allen says that the draft of the bill is being finalised with the amendments aimed at...