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Delights, Dangers, and Discomfit.

By D.A. Cairns When you go to the zoo there is a pleasure in observing animals in natural settings, albeit simulated ones. It’s nice to see them doing their thing, acting without inhibition, feeling at home, and behaving as though…

A more hawkish China policy? 5 takeaways from House committee’s inaugural hearing on confronting Beijing

In a rare show of bipartisanship, Republican and Democratic House members put on a united front as they probed how to respond to the perceived growing threat of China. The inaugural hearing of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the…

Europe for Peace: Call for Convergence

We know that the possible evolution of the conflict in Ukraine depends on the involvement of the whole of society in terms of economic and human resources. There is talk of compulsory military conscription in many European and some Eastern…

Watchdog Group Scores Illicit Sale of “Toxic Duo” for Whitening the Skin

2 March 2023, Quezon City.  As National Women’s Month is celebrated, the EcoWaste Coalition drew attention to the continued sale of illegal cosmetics with high levels of mercury that target Filipino women aspiring for a lighter skin tone. The group…

Nihongo Fiesta 2023 in Manila: Celebrating Nihongojin after the Pandemic

by Elijah Jasmin J. Velasco The Nihongo Fiesta 2023 was held at Red Plaza Cinema 2, in the Shangri-la Plaza Mall, Manila, on February 25, 2023. People from various parts of the globe attended the event, including some international officials…

Philippines Celebrates ‘Pandaigdigang Araw ng Wikang Kinagisnan, ‘Highlighting Multilingualism (Part 3)

by Edgar Belando, Kimberly Anne Mista and Derico Jabaybay “Languages are vital for the people and the world as an instrument to preserve identity development, education and integration.” -Saleem Samad. On the 21st of February 2023, the Polytechnic University of…

Celebrating International Mother’s Language Day, Highlighting Multilingualism, Part 2

by Avryl Claire Macaranas, Angela Mariz Ibon with Jasmine Bermudez, Angela Magsipoc, and Nikki Rosales In line with the 24th annual celebration of International Mother Language Day (IMLD), English major freshmen students at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines-San Juan (PUPSJ)…

VISION & GRIT: Exceptional Zero Waste Women in the Asia Pacific Region (eighth in the series)

Mi Hwa Kim: Making Zero Waste a Reality in South Korea by Doun Moon From a country girl to the leader of the largest civil society organization in the zero waste movement in Korea. Born as the second daughter in a…

When the river is noisy, it is because it brings stones

Economic groups, Chilean businessmen and extractivist politics have been favoured this last week. Once again, we are surprised by the interpretation and application of a legal norm in favour of one of the most questioned companies of recent times. On…

No to war!

World Without Wars and Without Violence A Coruña calls for a rally against the war in Ukraine next Friday, March 3rd, at 8pm at the Obelisk. We want to express our profound preoccupation about the increase of violence and the…

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