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An opportunity in mineral production

The Manila Times 21 May 2025
The Philippines is believed to hold about 4 billion ... According to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), class A copper reserves stood at just 2.9 million metric tons in 2023, which was a slight decrease from a year earlier, and just 62,000 metric tons were extracted in 2023....
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Illiteracy is the tip of the iceberg

The Philadelphia Inquirer 21 May 2025
With the new figures coming out from the Philippine Statistics ......
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Stirrings of voter sentiments in 2025: Dawn of People Power redux in PH?

Manila Bulletin 21 May 2025
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and ... According to the Philippine Statistical Authority ... After Ninoy, Cory and Noynoy, their kindred spirit have resurfaced in the mainstream of Philippine politics....
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Trump’s National-Security Disaster

The Atlantic 21 May 2025
If they hadn’t moved to the United States and maybe made the aggregate statistics a little worse, they’d be living in Mexico or Guatemala or the Philippines or wherever the family came from ... And a lot of the situation that my friend Joe describes is kind of a statistical illusion....
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Western Visayas inflation drops to 1.9% in April

Manila Bulletin 20 May 2025
ILOILO CITY – The inflation rate in Western Visayas region dropped for the second straight month, by 0.8 percent, from 2.7 percent in March to 1.9 percent in April.“The downtrend in the Western Visayas inflation rate ......
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Gov’t to hire 16,000 new teachers for next school year

Manila Standard 20 May 2025
Meanwhile, Cagayan de Oro Rep ...Mindanao needs 8,000 of these teaching positions to catch up with Luzon and the Visayas in terms of literacy,” Rodriguez said, citing a Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) report indicating high rates of functional illiteracy in the region ... ....
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Marcos: Stunned, shell-shocked

The Manila Times 20 May 2025
And as the ultimate supervisor of the Philippine National Police, did he not give the order to the police and other authorities ... the Philippine Statistics Authority had reported that palay, or unmilled rice, declined to a four-year low of 19.09 million metric tons (MMT) in 2024....
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Equitable access to medicines pushed

The Manila Times 19 May 2025
In the Philippines alone, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority in 2023 revealed that only 22 percent of provinces had adequate primary care facilities — far below the 50 percent target ... Karen Villanueva, president of the Philippine Alliance of Patient Organizations (PAPO), echoed the importance of inclusive dialogue....
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Trump reciprocal tariffs' effects on the Philippines

The Manila Times 19 May 2025
Based on information obtained from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), Philippine trade with the US in 2024 shows exports to the US totaling $12.1 billion and imports from the US aggregating $8.1 billion, resulting in a favorable balance of trade for the Philippines (and therefore trade deficit for the US) of $4 billion....
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DTI explores partnership with Google to push tech investments

Manila Bulletin 19 May 2025
... in digital workforce development.She said the partnership may cover support, capacity, and capability-building programs for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), particularly targeting women and youth entrepreneurs.“MSMEs are the backbone of the Philippine economy....
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Tell it to SunStar: When numbers fall short

Sun Star 19 May 2025
With their last survey held from April 20 to 24, 2025, the swing in rankings between that period and Election Day on May 12 was statistically jarring. According to Peter Cayton, a statistician from the University of the Philippines, surveys are snapshots frozen in time ... There is a statistical explanation here....

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