A day in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, cannot be imagined without the delicious and mouthwatering assemblage of street foods. Endless unique flavours, easy accessibility and low price etc. have been playing a role to make street foods a center of attraction. People of all age groups and working class are fond of street foods.
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The COVID-19 pandemic severely damaged the Philippine economy, leaving 7.3 million Filipinos unemployed during the first few months of the lockdown. Left with no source of income, the national government devised a solution to provide financial assistance to marginalized and low-income families that belong to the informal economy.
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Abhinandan Dhakal, a masters student of Environmental Economics from the University of York, wanted to make a social and environmental impact. He moved back to his hometown, nestled in the Himalayas, to pursue agricultural entrepreneurship.
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The Philippines is faced with an uncertain future. Today’s pressing societal issues such as education disparity, economic inequality, food insecurity, and a strained healthcare system have negatively affected our quality of life—lives of countless Filipinos are compromised.
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Every year, about 10 million hectares of forests are destroyed. In Kalimantan alone, more than 6 million hectares were used for palm oil plantations within two decades, which contributed to the major cause of deforestation in Indonesia.
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If one were to ask, what is the purpose of education, there would not be one straightforward answer. If we were to get philosophical and idealistic at this juncture, education is about enhancing the understanding of the world, to learn, to think differently, unleash creativity and become a better person.
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In January of 2021, The World Bank approved an Emission Reduction (ER) project in the Terai area of Nepal, whose main objective is to make payments for emission reduction schemes through reduced forest deforestation and degradation.
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By: Marc Adrian Aguilar The Philippines had been hailed as one of the countries embracing gender equality. The Global Gender Gap Report 2020 of the World Economic Forum ranked the Philippines as the 16th on the index among the developed Scandinavian countries. The International Labor Organization detailed that the Philippines is the 5th in having the highest share of
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Well in my humble opinion, ‘She’ is the only ‘God’ but let’s understand how the world views her. It started with the existence of men (humanrace).
Who is ‘She’; Why is ‘She’ unnoticed? Read More »
By: Raywin Taroaniara Some of us have encountered situation of which we posted something on Facebook and was told to take it down, because of the controversial massage it sends out to the public. Alternatively, because we said something that sparks debate or because our opinion is not quite fits in with the tradition of
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