Tag: crisis
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Angara named DepEd chief amid education crisis
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MALACAÑANG on Tuesday named Senator Juan Edgardo M. Angara as the new secretary of the Department of Education (DepEd) as the Philippines faces a learning crisis spurred by the pandemic and decades-old bureaucratic inefficiencies.
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Greenpeace calls on the government to mitigate the impacts of the climate crisis
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A global environmental organization called on the Philippine government to provide solutions that could lessen the impact of El Niño and La Niña. “We call on our government to ensure measures that will mitigate the impacts of El Niño on our water supply, food production, and power generation,” Greenpeace Philippines…
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Philippines’ ongoing power crisis is not artificial, says Marcos
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PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. on Monday dispelled fears that the Philippines was experiencing an artificial power crisis after the country’s sole grid operator again raised a yellow alert in the Luzon and Visayas grids, citing an El Niño-driven increase in demand. “It definitely is not an artificial crisis because…