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January 23, 2023
It is estimated that 2.7 billion disposable knives, forks, cups, and plates are used in England every year. Most of them are made of plastic. Just 10 percent of them are recycled....
January 21, 2023
The national Social Weather Survey of December 10-14, 2022, found that 11.8% of Filipino families, or an estimated 3.0 million, experienced involuntary hunger – being hungry and not having anything to eat – at least once in the past three months....
January 15, 2023
“Marcos has a golden opportunity to prove that he is serious about human rights by ordering the end of the ‘drug war.’” - Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch....
December 24, 2022
The 73% expecting a happy Christmas is 8 points above the 65% in 2021, and 23 points above the record-low 50% in 2020. However, it is still 6 points below the pre-pandemic level of 79% in 2019....
December 15, 2022
Nations must protect journalism from threats posed by social media or soon there may be no news organizations to rely on — only “news” from nonsensical and unreliable sources on forums like Facebook and Twitter that will continue to spread disinformation....
December 11, 2022
The resulting Net Personal Optimism score is +40 (% Optimists minus % Pessimists, correctly rounded), classified by SWS as excellent (+40 and up) [Chart 2, Table 1]....