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With this and other slogans such as Violence can be learned, nonviolence too! the campaign: Let’s organise peace and active nonviolence Now! closed on Sunday 23 October in the Ihuanco Park of Study and Reflection. From the moment we arrived…

President Xi Jinping was re-appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of China this past Saturday during the final session of the Communist Party’s National Congress, marking the beginning of Xi’s third term as leader of the Chinese giant. Lawmakers…

One of the subjects I have been researching as a sociologist is work in the current post-modern era and information technologies. Remote” work also imposes its own conditions, and we are witnessing a kind of new industrial revolution, where oppression…

Scientists are optimistic about a vaccine to treat different types of cancers through the technology used to fight the coronavirus. “We believe that a cure for cancer, or to change the lives of cancer patients, is within our reach,” said…

Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. This war has been horrendous, though it does not compare with the terrible destruction wrought by the U.S. bombardment of Iraq (“shock and awe”) in 2003. In the Gomel region of Belarus that…

Whether in the form of historic droughts, blistering wildfires, record-setting hurricanes, extreme heat or catastrophic flooding, it’s clear that natural disasters in the U.S. are increasing in frequency and severity. In the face of a changing climate, we need environmental protection now…

The Russia-Ukraine war has reminded the world of enduring tensions between ex-soviet countries – even 30 years after the Soviet Union’s dissolution. The death of Gorbachev, final president of the Soviet Union, in August 2022, has continued the discourse. Known…

EcoWaste Coalition, IPEN seeks stringent enforcement of lead paint law to safeguard human health 23 October 2022, Quezon City.  Paints containing lead above the legal limit continue to be exported from China and Thailand to the Philippines despite a national…

The marvellous wooden rocking horse, which survived for centuries and became the symbol of protected childhood, did not make it beyond the frontier of the twentieth century. Advances in technology also have their downsides. They sometimes present that dark, cheap…

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), called today to preserve the aspirations and the founding mission of the grouping, expressing confidence that it will reach new achievements on the road to modernisation. During the closing…