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[ad_1] SeoulNorth Korean soldiers shot dead a suspected South Korean defector after questioning him at sea, then poured oil on his body and burned him for fear of the coronavirus, Seoul military officials said Thursday. The man had disappeared from a patrol boat near the western border island of Yeonpyeong, …

[ad_1] (CNN) – The British government is exploring the possibility of clinical trials in which volunteers deliberately expose themselves to the coronavirus to test the effectiveness of vaccine candidates, the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) revealed on Wednesday in a release. “We are working with partners …

[ad_1] Maria Ressa, Executive Director and executive editor of Rappler, an investigative news website in the Philippines, says we badmouth misinformation. The typical framework suggests that the people behind the misinformation want us to believe something that is not true. That’s not entirely correct, she says. Its main goal is …

[ad_1] The importance of labor is fundamentally recognized in all sectors of this busy world. The proof is the establishment of the Personnel Department as past practice and the Office of Human Resource Management or the Office of Human Resource Development in recent trends. This is true whether the organization …

[ad_1] President Rodrigo Duterte The Philippines is committed to ratifying the United Nations treaty to ban nuclear weapons, President Rodrigo Duterte said Wednesday. In his speech during the high-level general debate of the UN General Assembly, the president explained that nothing justifies the use of nuclear weapons, which he described …

[ad_1] PRESIDENT Duterte’s long-awaited debut before the 75th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday evening (early morning Manila time) was marked with a firm affirmation of the Philippines’ rights in the China Sea. Southern, anchored in a UN convention and a 2016 arbitration decision. At the unprecedented virtual assembly, …

[ad_1] LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) that his “best guess” is that the next season won’t start until at least January, and acknowledged that the later schedule than usual could mean the best US male players will be missing next summer …

[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte’s assertion of the Philippines’ legal victory over China over its broad territorial claims over the South China Sea has drawn mixed reactions from foreign policy observers. “This measure should not be taken lightly,” said Julio Amador III, principal investigator at the Ateneo School …

[ad_1] VIRTUAL MEETING OF WORLD LEADERS In this photo provided by the United Nations, on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) a prerecorded speech by President Duterte is reproduced during the 75th session of the UN General Assembly at the headquarters of the world body in New York. World leaders who stayed …

[ad_1] Environmentalists have welcomed China’s leader Xi Jinping’s commitment to accelerate emissions reductions in the world’s most polluting nation and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. The ambitious goal, which surprised many experts, could help significantly slow global warming. However, they cautioned that Xi had offered almost no details, raising questions …