PH gets $26.3-m grant from Green Climate Fund
The Philippines has secured a $26.3 million grant for its climate change initiative from the United Nation’s Green Climate Fund ...
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Myanmar jails 112 Rohingya for travelling ‘without documents’
Myanmar authorities have sentenced 112 Rohingya, including a dozen children, to between two and five years in prison for attempting ...
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Misunderstanding may lead to ‘nuke annihilation’ — UN
UN head Antonio Guterres warned Monday that a misunderstanding could spark nuclear destruction as the United States, Britain and France ...
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47 dissidents charged in HK
Hong Kong—Hong Kong police charged dozens of dissidents with subversion on Sunday in the largest use yet of Beijing’s sweeping ...
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Making peace with nature is possible, if we start now
"Our environmental, social and economic challenges are interlinked." By Inger Andersen Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme Even amid ...
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UN troops recapture C.African city from rebels
UN peacekeeping troops said they have retaken control of a city in the Central African Republic captured two weeks ago ...
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Ethiopian conflict leaves 2.3M kids in urgent need of assistance
The outbreak of conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has left some 2.3 million children in urgent need of assistance and ...
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New China law a ‘serious risk’ to HK freedoms
China’s national security law for Hong Kong poses a serious risk to the city’s freedoms and breaches international legal obligations, ...
Read moreFighting two pandemics hand in hand in Asia and the Pacific
"Ending hunger and poverty amid COVID-19 impacts will require leveraging agricultural technology, innovation and partnerships." Global hunger has been on ...
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Angara seeks audit of existing laws, programs for the youth
Senator Juan Edgardo Angara is pushing for a review of the various programs for the country’s youth to see if ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.