Isolated indigenous peoples face extinction
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Almost half of indigenous communities living cut off from the world face extinction within the decade due to logging, mining and…
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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Almost half of indigenous communities living cut off from the world face extinction within the decade due to logging, mining and…
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Kingston (AFP) — Jamaican officials urged the public to get to higher ground and shelters ahead of Hurricane Melissa’s expected landfall Tuesday, with the…
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Philippine National Bank (PNB) reported a consolidated net income of P18.5 billion for the first nine months of 2025, up 23 percent from the same period last…
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Muntinlupa Mayor Ruffy Biazon said the standing reflects the city’s focus on transparent and prudent spending.
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Quezon City officials declared the local government prepared for potential threats posed by tropical storm "Ramil," despite no major flooding being reported as…
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Only 75 out of 199 recorded media killings in the Philippines since 1986 were “work-related,” according to Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS)…
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Typhoon “Ramil,” internationally known as Fengshen, tore across Luzon on Sunday, killing five in a family of six, forcing tens of thousands to flee, and…
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President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Friday led the turnover of the first-ever “Bayanihan Village” in Cebu, a government initiative to help earthquake victims…
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The Philippine Coast Guard conducted a medical evacuation (medevac) of a crewmember of the United States Navy Ship Washington Chambers off the waters of…
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After two days of search and retrieval operations, a drowned body of a man was found at the Pampanga River in Barangay San Mariano in the town of Santa Rosa,…
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The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) reported Tuesday that damage to national infrastructure from the Bogo earthquake has reached an estimated P1.9 billion.
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ZAMBOANGA CITY — The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) recorded a -1.5 percent inflation rate in September 2025, maintaining the…
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‘Despite turbulence from shifting United States trade policy, global trade dynamics have so far shown limited disruption, with developing economies maintaining…
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The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said the figure was 7.5 percent lower than the $1.4 billion posted a year earlier. However, it said that long-term foreign…
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The government is unfazed despite a slight uptick in inflation last month, noting that the figure remains well within its full-year target range of 2 to 4…
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Authorities evacuated 197,000 people from their homes on Hainan Island and 150,000 from Guangdong province.
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‘This figure accounts mainly for direct costs and hence is a conservative estimate relative to the decrease, including hard-to-estimate indirect costs.’
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AURORA — A total of 2,837 families, or 7,825 individuals, have been forced to evacuate their homes across Aurora province due to the heavy rains and flooding…
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