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Taxing Addictive Products Won’t Help Curb Its Use

EVERY TIME COMPLAINTS and clamors to ban an addictive vice or activity is being raised, the government’s stock answer is to tax them so...

Effective Strategy Against Agri Smuggling

FROM JUST THE optics that the former leadership of the Department of Agriculture Inspectorate and Enforcement (DA-IE) office used, the new head is now...

AI Threat To Educational Development – MIT Study

BOSTON, Massachusetts — Does AI or artificial intelligence, particularly ChatGPT, harm critical thinking abilities of our learners?  A new study from researchers at the Massachusetts Institute...

DICT Keen On Taking Down Illegal Gambling Online Sites

IN LINE WITH the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT)'s campaign to curb online gambling in the country, the agency's Cybercrime Investigation and...

Did The 19th Senate Cover Up For Sara?

By threatening to dismiss through voting the impeachment articles against Vice President Sara Duterte, did the 19th Senate under SP Chiz Escudero try to...

₱50k Entry Pay For Teachers

THE ALLIANCE OF Concerned Teachers (ACT) group is pushing for the increase to â‚±50,000 the monthly entry level salary for teachers.  Education Secretary Edgardo Angara appears to...

Remulla Eyes Ombudsman’s Office 

JUSTICE SECRETARY JESUS Crispin Remulla’s manifest interest in applying for the Constitutional office of the Ombudsman, with its 7-year prescribed term, is a political...

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