Trying to stay cool as temperatures soar in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Tens of millions of people have been exposed to conditions that threaten their health.
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The Chinese Communist Party has inadvertently given the country’s nationalist movement influence that it’s struggling to contain.
Philippine troops watch as a missile hits a target during a live-fire joint U.S.-Philippines exercise.
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US Marines and Philippine forces are taking part in joint military exercises just 100 miles off the southern tip of Taiwan.
Kanpai! Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is hoping the U.S.-Japan relationship doesn’t lose its fizz.
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Meetings with Joe Biden and Donald Trump suggest Japan is hedging over the outcome of the US election.
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During a state visit to the White House, the US and Japanese leaders announce a suite of new agreements aimed at countering China’s growing power.
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Understanding China’s perspectives on ocean governance – and where they come from – is vital to forging a path forward on disputes over contested waters.
Most of the world washes their clothing by hand.
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Simply trying to avoid synthetic clothing won’t fix our microfibre pollution problem
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Given Australia has recently sought to steady its rocky relationship with China, this cooperation with the Philippines could come at a cost.
The shrine at Lourdes, France, where the Virgin Mary is venerated as ‘Our Lady of Lourdes,’ following several apparitions reported in 1858.
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The Vatican plans to set up an ‘observatory’ to investigate apparitions of the Virgin Mary. A scholar of global Christianity explains why this is a major shift in how apparitions are authenticated.
A Marine amphibious assault vehicle takes part in a 2019 joint U.S.-Philippines exercise.
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The South China Sea is of strategic and economic importance to Beijing and the US, setting up a potential power struggle that could spark conflict.
Wine remains among South Africa’s major agricultural exports.
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South Africa’s focus should be on maintaining smooth relations with critical export markets while searching for new ones.
All good friends: US secretary of defense Lloyd Austin visits the president of the Phllippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jnr.
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Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos is playing a delicate game of great power relations between Beijing and Washington.
Filipino Americans are less likely to seek mental health help than average Americans.
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Workshops that focus on the needs of one particular immigrant community improve mental health for parents and kids and provide an example for other programs to follow.
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Political families have a strong hold on power in Southeast Asian countries – often to the detriment of the people they serve.
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Newly elected Philippines president Bongbong Marcos faces huge challenges, and a backdrop of his father’s dictatorship.
Politics is the Marcos family business.
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Bongbong Marcos is the projected winner of the Philippines election. That the son of a brutal dictator has won shows how wedded the country is to dynastic politics – and image manipulation.
Philippine presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, delivers a speech during a campaign rally in Lipa, Batangas province, Philippines, April 20, 2022.
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The son of former Filipino dictator is leading the polls as the country approaches a national election.
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TikTok is a new strategic tool for propagandists to push for political narrative during the electoral period.
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Wheat accounts for about 20% of human calorie consumption, and Russia and Ukraine are both major exporters. The war could hit household food supplies in countries as far apart as Egypt and Indonesia.
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Tracking misinformation and disinformation on TikTok is a difficult feat, a study finds