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Read more about the article Eco group welcomes Trudeau’s move to take trash back home
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in his opening remarks during the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN)-Canada 40th Anniversary Commemorative Summit at the Philippine International Convention Center on November 14, 2017. (PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)

Eco group welcomes Trudeau’s move to take trash back home

After four years, the 103 shipping containers in the port of Manila containing household waste may soon find its way back home after Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it might be repatriated.

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Read more about the article PH farmers protest Trump visit, call on ASEAN leaders to recognize peasants’ rights
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PH farmers protest Trump visit, call on ASEAN leaders to recognize peasants’ rights

Thousands of farmers and rural folks are set to join the series of anti-Trump protests in Manila to call for an end, the continuing landlessness under the Duterte administration, a lawmaker said on Friday.

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Read more about the article Briones: Teachers’ debts a ‘decades-old drama’
BALIK ESKWELA. Pupils from Magallanes Elementary School line up as their teacher tours them inside the school premises on June 6, the second day of the opening of classes across the country. The opening of classes on June 5 is mar with the usual problems of insufficient number of classrooms, teachers, among others. (Robby Joy Salveron/davaotoday.com)

Briones: Teachers’ debts a ‘decades-old drama’

Education Secretary Leonor Briones said the issue of teachers’ debts is a “decades-old drama” which prompted the agency to promulgate mechanism to end the practice of teachers’ over-borrowing.

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