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5 Global Elections To Watch In 2025
The coming 12 months cant promise the bumper crop of elections we saw during 2024, when countries home to about half the worlds population headed to the polls. Still, voters will cast ballots in several important elections throughout the year.
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Philippines Suspends Decision To Allow Vaccinated Tourists Entry
The Philippines has temporarily suspended a decision to allow fully vaccinated tourists entry in a bid to prevent a new, heavily mutated coronavirus variant taking off in the country where most of the population remains unvaccinated.
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Sinking Philippines Village Will Soon Disappear Due To Rising Sea Levels
Sitio Pariahan, about 17 km (10.5 miles) north of Manila, is sinking about 4 cm (1.5 inches) every year, owing largely to land subsidence from the population's overuse of groundwater, according to experts.
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Super Typhoon 'Mangkhut' Hits China's Most Populous Province
A super typhoon made landfall in China's Guangdong on Sunday, the country's most populous province, after wreaking havoc in Hong Kong and Macau and killing potentially more than 50 people in the Philippines.
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ASEAN Summit 2017: PM Modi And President Trump Shake Hands In Manila - Highlights
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in Manila for a three-day visit to attend the ASEAN-India and East Asia summits. The ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) region including India, comprises a combined population of 1.85 billion people, one-fourth of the global population. Prime Minister Modi is likely to reassert India's push to c...
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ASEAN Summit 2017: PM Modi's Agenda Of His Three-Day Visit To Manila
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in Manila for a three-day visit to attend the ASEAN-India and East Asia summits. This will be his first bilateral visit to the Philippines. The ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) region along with India comprises a combined population of 1.85 billion people, which is one fourth of the global popu...
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Philippines Set to Roll Out Tough No-Smoking Law
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is set to sign a regulation this month banning smoking in public across Southeast Asia's second-most populous country, rolling out among the toughest anti-tobacco laws in the region.
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Philippines Set To Roll Out Tough No-Smoking Law
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is set to sign a regulation this month banning smoking in public across Southeast Asia's second-most populous country, rolling out among the toughest anti-tobacco laws in the region.
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Philippines Only Country In Asia Where Teen Pregnancy Rising
The UN Population Fund says the Philippines is the only country in the Asia Pacific region where the rate of teen pregnancies rose over the last two decades.
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Pope Francis Finishes Asian Tour After Huge, Rain-Soaked Mass in Manila
Pope Francis left the Philippines today, ending a week-long trip to Asia that culminated with a rain-soaked Mass for about seven million people in the capital of Asia's most populous Catholic nation, the largest-ever crowd for a papal event.
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Philippines Welcomes 100 Millionth Baby
A baby girl born early Sunday has officially pushed the population of the Philippines to 100 million, highlighting the challenge of providing for more people in the already-impoverished nation.
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Indian-Americans form third largest Asian population in US
Indian-Americans numbering 3.34 million are the third largest Asian community in the US, after people from China and the Philippines, a report said.
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Philippines overtakes India as hub of call centers
Americans calling the customer service lines of their airlines, phone companies and banks are now more likely to speak to Mark in Manila than Bharat in Bangalore. Over the last several years, a quiet revolution has been reshaping the call center business: the rise of the Philippines, a former United States colony that has a large population of youn...
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5 Global Elections To Watch In 2025
The coming 12 months cant promise the bumper crop of elections we saw during 2024, when countries home to about half the worlds population headed to the polls. Still, voters will cast ballots in several important elections throughout the year.
-
Philippines Suspends Decision To Allow Vaccinated Tourists Entry
The Philippines has temporarily suspended a decision to allow fully vaccinated tourists entry in a bid to prevent a new, heavily mutated coronavirus variant taking off in the country where most of the population remains unvaccinated.
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Sinking Philippines Village Will Soon Disappear Due To Rising Sea Levels
Sitio Pariahan, about 17 km (10.5 miles) north of Manila, is sinking about 4 cm (1.5 inches) every year, owing largely to land subsidence from the population's overuse of groundwater, according to experts.
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Super Typhoon 'Mangkhut' Hits China's Most Populous Province
A super typhoon made landfall in China's Guangdong on Sunday, the country's most populous province, after wreaking havoc in Hong Kong and Macau and killing potentially more than 50 people in the Philippines.
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ASEAN Summit 2017: PM Modi And President Trump Shake Hands In Manila - Highlights
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in Manila for a three-day visit to attend the ASEAN-India and East Asia summits. The ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) region including India, comprises a combined population of 1.85 billion people, one-fourth of the global population. Prime Minister Modi is likely to reassert India's push to c...
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ASEAN Summit 2017: PM Modi's Agenda Of His Three-Day Visit To Manila
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in Manila for a three-day visit to attend the ASEAN-India and East Asia summits. This will be his first bilateral visit to the Philippines. The ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) region along with India comprises a combined population of 1.85 billion people, which is one fourth of the global popu...
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Philippines Set to Roll Out Tough No-Smoking Law
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is set to sign a regulation this month banning smoking in public across Southeast Asia's second-most populous country, rolling out among the toughest anti-tobacco laws in the region.
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Philippines Set To Roll Out Tough No-Smoking Law
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is set to sign a regulation this month banning smoking in public across Southeast Asia's second-most populous country, rolling out among the toughest anti-tobacco laws in the region.
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Philippines Only Country In Asia Where Teen Pregnancy Rising
The UN Population Fund says the Philippines is the only country in the Asia Pacific region where the rate of teen pregnancies rose over the last two decades.
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Pope Francis Finishes Asian Tour After Huge, Rain-Soaked Mass in Manila
Pope Francis left the Philippines today, ending a week-long trip to Asia that culminated with a rain-soaked Mass for about seven million people in the capital of Asia's most populous Catholic nation, the largest-ever crowd for a papal event.
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Philippines Welcomes 100 Millionth Baby
A baby girl born early Sunday has officially pushed the population of the Philippines to 100 million, highlighting the challenge of providing for more people in the already-impoverished nation.
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Indian-Americans form third largest Asian population in US
Indian-Americans numbering 3.34 million are the third largest Asian community in the US, after people from China and the Philippines, a report said.
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Philippines overtakes India as hub of call centers
Americans calling the customer service lines of their airlines, phone companies and banks are now more likely to speak to Mark in Manila than Bharat in Bangalore. Over the last several years, a quiet revolution has been reshaping the call center business: the rise of the Philippines, a former United States colony that has a large population of youn...
