Filipinos can now travel through Metro Manila with the new and improved Light Rail Vehicles (LRVs) aboard the Light Railway Transit Line 1 (LRT-1), a project that seeks to reduce the usage of private vehicles on the road and correspondingly limit air pollution.
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Summer is a political science student with a twin passion for journalism. Her hobbies include watching geography documentaries, searching the metro for plant-based food, and free-falling through Wikipedia rabbit holes. Her works have previously been featured in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
How Quezon City is Getting Children Involved with Climate Action, One Storybook at a Time
Quezon City, the most populous city in the Philippines, is producing children’s interactive storybooks on climate change as part of its commitment to increase climate resilience of the local communities in the city northeast of Manila.
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Expand your knowledge of the West Philippine Sea with this free online resource
Filipinos can now easily access official information about the Philippines’ sovereign rights to the West Philippine Sea with the recently launched “Not One Inch” website.
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Learn Foreign Languages for Free with Philippines’ TESDA
Here’s how Filipinos can learn foreign languages for free at the Philippines’ Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) which recently announced it would be offering free language training programs in Korean, Japanese, Spanish, and English.
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Pasig River cleanup breakthrough: 1.3 million tons of waste removed to ease pollution and flooding
A breakthrough for Philippine environmental action is being marked this July with a two-year massive cleanup drive in critical sections of the Pasig River nearing its 1.5 million tons of waste removal target to help increase its depth, promote faster water flow, and lessen chances of severe flooding in nearby communities.
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Discover Why the Four Centuries-Old Saints Peter and Paul Parish Makati church is an Important Cultural Property
The historic Saints Peter and Paul Parish of Makati has been marked as an Important Cultural Property (ICP) of the Philippines, allowing the four centuries-old church to seek public funding for its conservation.
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From newsroom to classroom: Filipino journalist Maria Ressa becomes a professor at Columbia University
Filipino journalist Maria Ressa is set to join the Ivy League’s Columbia University as a professor in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).
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True heroism: Discover the legacy award given to Filipino World War II veterans
To celebrate the lasting legacy of Filipino World War II veterans in the fight for freedom, the United States held an awarding ceremony vesting the US Congressional Gold Medal on 41 former soldiers.
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A win for progress: Inside Laguna’s groundbreaking LGBTQIA+ ordinance
To safeguard the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community, Laguna province has passed a landmark ordinance protecting individuals from discrimination on the basis of gender.
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Top of the hill: Discover the Philippines’ first sustainable tourism observatory
Batanes has notched a new milestone as the first Philippine destination to be granted membership in the International Network of Sustainable Tourism Observatories (INSTO) of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), a group that will help preserve the uniqueness of the islands while ensuring developments benefit both the locals and visitors amid the province’s ever-growing popularity among world travelers.
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Discover the game-changing OTOP bill to invigorate uniquely Filipino products
Seeking to bring color to entrepreneurship and the uniqueness of local industries, the “One Town, One Product” (OTOP) bill has been successfully passed by the Philippine Senate and the House of Representatives and now only awaits presidential approval.
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Where sustainability meets heritage: How Bohol became the Philippines’ first global geopark
The island of Bohol has been declared by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as the first Global Geopark of the Philippines.
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