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[Title] => How a campaign of ‘half-truths’ against USAID went global and reached Asia
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[Title] => Inside the TikTok network boosting ‘confessions’ of flood control corruption
[Summary] => Until its removal in November, hundreds of TikTok accounts had spent months magnifying the visibility of AI-manipulated videos of lawmakers appearing to admit to corruption in flood control projects.
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[Title] => Copypasta army: Vietnam smeared by bots backing Duterte on X
[Summary] => A coordinated network of bot accounts has bombarded X with nearly 1,000 posts framing Vietnam as the main threat in the South China Sea — with many of the most active accounts also spreading pro-Duterte narratives, a Philstar.com investigation shows.
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[Title] => 3 in 10 Filipinos struggle to comprehend what they read — but poverty deepens the problem
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[Title] => Philippine bird populations threatened by window strikes
[Summary] => In the Philippines, birds are increasingly falling victim to an invisible urban hazard: reflective glass windows that create deadly illusions of sky and trees. Through citizen science efforts and grassroots solutions, Filipino birdwatchers and homeowners are working to document these collisions.
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[Title] => The Philippine school that produces health workers who stay
[Summary] => A tiny campus by the University of the Philippines in Leyte turns village scholars into community doctors who practice where others won't go.
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[Title] => The cost of climate disruptions: Philippines loses 32 teaching days to extreme weather
[Summary] => At least 53 out of 180 days, or three months' worth of teaching time, was lost due to class suspensions caused by weather disruptions and teachers’ non-teaching tasks, among others.
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[Title] => Everyone's responsibility: How Finland is raising a generation of environmental ‘experts’
[Summary] => Finland’s education system emphasizes the importance of sustainability from day one — literally as early as kindergarten. And thanks to recent initiatives, circular economy practices are being taught across levels and among working professionals, so that circularity is practiced in “widely different sectors in distinct and specific ways."
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[Title] => Gaps in policies on children-targeted marketing turn TikTok into a virtual candy store
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[Title] => PB mi-congratulate sa Banat News
[Summary] => Ang Sangguniang Panlalawigan sa Sugbo mipahalipay sa Banat News tungod sa pag-ani niini og tulo ka award sa dili pa dugay nga gipahigayong Cebu Archdiocesan Mass Media Awards (CAMMA).
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[Title] => Inside the TikTok network boosting ‘confessions’ of flood control corruption
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[Title] => 3 in 10 Filipinos struggle to comprehend what they read — but poverty deepens the problem
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[Title] => Philippine bird populations threatened by window strikes
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[Title] => The cost of climate disruptions: Philippines loses 32 teaching days to extreme weather
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[Title] => Gaps in policies on children-targeted marketing turn TikTok into a virtual candy store
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[Title] => PB mi-congratulate sa Banat News
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