Conflict & Justice
GlobalPost
April 11, 2017
At least 7,000 suspected drug users and pushers have been killed in the Philippines since July. Some include people who voluntarily surrendered to the authorities. The fear is reverberating throughout the country’s rehabs.
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Lifestyle & Belief
A Filipino restaurant owner says shame may be one reason authentic Filipino food has not become mainstream
PRI's The World
February 13, 2014
Nicole Ponseca, founder of Maharlika and Jeepney in the East Village, wants Filipino food to stand on its own two feet in the American market. Unlike what some of her contemporaries have said, she thinks America is ready for offals.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Why is it so hard to find a good Filipino restaurant?
PRI's The World
February 06, 2014
It's tough to find a Philippine restaurant in the US, and most likely you've never been to one. But maybe some day soon, you'll get the chance.
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Business, Economics and Jobs
Climate change, meet your apocalyptic twin: oceans poisoned by plastic
GlobalPost
December 13, 2016
How throw-away plastic could alter humanity as we know it.
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Development & Education
In this Manila 'baby factory,' why women put up with crowding four to a bed
PRI's The World
March 09, 2015
Updated
Delivering in one of the world's most crowded maternity wards may be miserable, but the birth control these women can access afterward makes it worth it to them. Maybe, they say, they won't have to come back, or at least so soon.
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Health & Medicine
The debate over 'natural family planning': Does it work?
PRI's The World
March 09, 2015
Updated
The Catholic Church urges ‘natural family planning’ and says it has 98 percent effectiveness. A medical expert says it is closer to 80 percent — and that is in societies where a woman is able to say no to a partner's demands for sex.
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Science, Tech & Environment
Saved by the Mangroves? A Philippine town dodges Haiyan's storm surge
PRI's The World
November 29, 2013
What’s a bunch of trees worth? Well, if they save your town from the storm surge of a huge typhoon, you might say they’re invaluable. That’s what happened to the community of General MacArthur, in the Philippines, and its fate holds a lesson for coastal communities around the world.
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Politics
Here's the backstory on why the US has such close ties to the Philippines
PRI's The World
November 12, 2013
The United States was among the first foreign nations to move in to help the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan's devastation. The US has long had close, though not always happy, ties with the island nation.
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Business, Economics and Jobs
Living on Call Center Time in the Philippines
PRI's The World
August 12, 2013
There's a whole culture in the Philippines that's evolved around people working on a New York time zone. They don't just live on US time, they live in US weather, and US culture.
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Sports
At this Filipino gun club, shooting is just part of the heritage
PRI's The World
May 05, 2014
It's rare to see an Asian gun club. Most gun owners in the US are white males. Yet Filipino immigrants in the Norco Running Gun Club of California say guns are part of Filipino culture, and part of the intertwined history of the Philippines and the US.
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Health & Medicine
Catholic leaders battle against free birth control in the Philippines
The GroundTruth Project
January 22, 2015
Half of all pregnancies in the predominantly Catholic Philippines are unintended. That may change as the country begins to roll out its new reproductive health law, but the Catholic Church — and even the pope — are still fighting the push for free contraception.