Whispering hope
There is always that hope Filipinos love to whisper, a hope that next year there will be better leaders, that change will indeed come
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2021
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Articles by Joe Torres, LiCAS.news
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2021
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Philippine green groups urge Duterte to immediately order ban on single-use plastic
The Philippines ranked third in the world for failing to deal with its plastics, with 81 percent of the country’s plastics waste mismanaged
Aug
2021
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Green group questions Asian Development Bank’s coal buy-out scheme
ADB and other key financial institutions earlier expressed intention to pursue a scheme to buy out coal power plants.
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