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MARINDUQUE — Elisa Hernandez dips her yellow blouse into the Boac River's rushing water and then slaps it up against the shoreline's gray stones. The 73-year-old used to earn a living washing her whole community's laundry this way. "We felt at home in this river ... It was so clean, we played in it ...
RICHMOND, Va.—A Virginia teacher who was shot and seriously wounded by her 6-year-old student filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $40 million in damages from school officials, accusing them of gross negligence and of ignoring multiple warnings the day of the shooting that the boy was armed and in a “violent…
AS in the past years, the Philippines’s food imports again outpaced its shipments to other countries, based on the latest data from the country’s statistics agency. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) recently reported that the country’s agricultural trade deficit widened by more than a third in October to December 2022.…
The unprecedented fiscal firepower used to protect the vulnerable from the harsh socio-economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting economic contraction have pushed the average government debt level in the Asia-Pacific region to its highest since 2008. Public debt distress is expected to worsen amid the global economic…
THE country’s economic growth was stopped abruptly by the Covid pandemic. But with Covid now spoken in the past tense and the economy reopened after the world’s longest lockdown, are we headed for Paradise? Hardly. The headwinds are still bellowing and painful adjustments and repairs of the RP ship are…