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WEnergy Global has a dream: use smart microgrid systems to bring clean, reliable electricity to more than 30,000 people in Palawan. Kids want to keep studying, and mothers want to open their sari-sari stores a little longer. Except…red tape is getting in the way.

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Amid acclaim for her recent Time100 Impact Award, Broadway star Lea Salonga urged more support for pandemic-hit creative industries.

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So many questions, but we home in on the two biggest ones: Can a president just up and leave without informing the country or leaving someone in charge? And were public funds or resources used for this trip?

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New data aggregated by Packworks from sari-sari stores tells an interesting story about why sales of hygiene and self-care products–and not canned food–spike immediately after major disasters.

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Researchers warn that a subvariant of Omicron is demonstrating an alarming ability to dodge immunity. 

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In this excerpt of Catch Me If You Can, we hear from the person behind the Twitter alter account @supernegatrona as he talks about how he influenced the presidential bid of VP Leni Robredo.

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Time and time again, the Sierra Madre breaks the megastorms rolling in from the Pacific Ocean before they hit us in Luzon. Super Typhoon Karding was just the latest example.

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A panel of history professors sounds the alarm over what students are learning – or not learning – about Martial Law. 

President Marcos Jr. attended the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week, marking a triumphant return to the city – and his mother’s extravagant ways. 

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President Marcos Jr. attended the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week, marking a triumphant return to the city – and his mother’s extravagant ways. 

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Former Executive Secretary Vic Rodriguez is now presidential chief of staff, after resigning in the wake of the sugar fiasco. Wait, what’s the difference? Won’t he be doing the same job, more or less? 

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