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Kinder post-pandemic Philippine cities: an animated fairytale
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What if Philippine cities magically had decent housing, reliable public transport, and participatory local governments? What would this future look like? BY ICA FERNANDEZ, NASTASSJA QUIJANO, ABBEY PANGILINAN AND TOIX CERNA (URBANISMO.PH)March 3, 2021 | 12:00:00 PM Read the Filipino...
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Pandemic exacerbates challenges in K to 12 program as DepEd’s subsidies fall short
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Economic difficulties arising from the pandemic have seen Grade 11 and 12 students from private schools flocking to public schools struggling to implement the K to 12 Basic Education Program. Over a hundred private schools offering senior high school education...
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‘They treated me like I murdered someone’: Lockdown arrests mark 1st year of PH pandemic response
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Fines from lockdown arrests have bled poor Filipinos dry while the rich and famous get wrist slaps for similar offenses. Calls for a different approach grow louder as the pandemic lockdown enters its second year. BY AIE BALAGTAS SEEMarch 15,...
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Keeping Up with Communication Schools in the ASEAN Region
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Press Release How can communication students be prepared to join an increasingly competitive ASEAN market? As the communication and media landscape rapidly evolves, communication schools need to equip students with the competencies they need to get ahead. The recently completed...
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Equipping Communication Students to Compete in the ASEAN Market
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Press Release Moving to online classrooms. Shortening class hours. Compressing learning modules. In the past year, communication schools in the Philippines have undergone unanticipated changes in the content and delivery of their academic programs, focusing on the most essential learning...
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This is what we do. This is who we are.
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The Manila Standard marks its 34th anniversary in an environment of uncertainty and hardship.   All around us, the pandemic continues to sicken or kill, and threatens further to infect even more. The economy has suffered a beating with the...
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HSF turns over some equipment to PPI
On October 13, 2020, Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) through its Project Officer Caroline Lee, turns over some equipment to the Philippine Press Institute (PPI) as donation to help upgrade its seminars and workshops under the PPI-HSF three-year partnership. These were...
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Nickel Asia shines in National Mine Safety, Environment Award
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BAGUIO CITY—Nickel Asia Corporation subsidiaries took the spotlight in the recently-concluded 66th Annual National Mine Safety and Environment Conference (ANMSEC) here, with one affiliate taking the most coveted Presidential Mineral Industry Environmental Award (PMIEA). Cagdianao Mining Corporation (CMC), based in...
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Travails of the community press
KEEPING people informed is a daunting challenge to community journalists as they struggle to stay in circulation, given the community quarantine restrictions and drastically reduced advertising revenues. The community newspapers are bearing the brunt of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19)...
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Join the 2nd East-West Center’s democracy-focused EWC Seminars Live.
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Designed for multinational journalists and informed audiences, EWC Seminars Live is a bimonthly webinar and briefing series that seeks to inform, connect, and source media stories. The August 25th briefing features former #GeorgeHWBush and #BarackObama #speechwriters, Mary Kate Cary and David Litt, discuss the #2020Elections, #votingrights, the future of...
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