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📉 Eating more but growing less: Stagnant Philippine farms linked to widening rice gap
#food

Eating more but growing less: Stagnant Philippine farms linked to widening rice gap
As of 2022 alone, Filipinos were eating 2.3 million metric tons more rice than the country produced—an 18% shortfall that has locked the Philippines into deeper dependence on imported rice despite years of government programs to boost local harvests.

Not surprised that the said #AI sweatshop workers are from the #Philippines ​🇵🇭
https://futurism.com/arti…

AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents
The powerful surveillance startup Flock was caught using workers in the Philippines to collate data on US residents.

ambassador: Philippines Ambassador bombing (2000)
A temporal network representing snapshots of relationships among individuals directly or indirectly associated with Philippines Ambassador Residence Bombing 2000, Jakarta. Nodes are people, and an edge exists if they are associated with each other. Definition of the edge weight is unknown.
This network has 16 nodes and 1 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal

Nearly a million people evacuate as Super Typhoon Fung-wong threatens the Philippines : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/09/g-s1-97091/nearly-a-million-people-evacuate-as-super-typhoon-fung-wong-threatens-the-philippines

Migrant workers in #Taiwan are mostly from Southeast Asia, the #semiconductor industry esp. pulls from the #Philippines. Entire neighborhoods cater to

🪧 ‘There is so much corruption’: hundreds of thousands protest in Manila over missing flood funds
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/17/manila-philippines-corruption-protest-flood-funds

‘There is so much corruption’: hundreds of thousands protest in Manila over missing flood funds
Huge rally organised by megachurch whose members vote in a bloc could spell trouble for Philippine president

"Six new tube-nosed bats described from the Philippines"
#Philippines #Bats #Animals

Six new tube-nosed bats described from the Philippines
Researchers have recently described six new-to-science species of tube-nosed bats from the Philippines, named after their unique nostrils that protrude from the snout. All the specimens were collected from either primary or secondary forests, currently threatened by mining and shifting agriculture, the authors write in a new study. “These bats are notoriously elusive, so the […]

OpenAI expands its ~$5 ChatGPT Go plan to 16 new Asian countries, including Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Vietnam, after launching it in August (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/openais-affordable-ch…

OpenAI's affordable ChatGPT Go plan expands to 16 new countries in Asia | TechCrunch
OpenAI is expanding its $5 per month ChatGPT Go plan to 16 more countries.

This CSO letter submitted today has a single #China/#HongKong entity, China Labour Bulletin.
Which self-dissolved in mid-2025...
https://foejapan.org/en/issue/20251205/27117/

Call for the Suspension of Irresponsible Nickel Development in Palawan, the Philippines — More Than a Decade Without Effective Environmental Measures, Leaving Community Rights at Risk — International Petition (8,411 Signatories from 36 Countries; 90 Organizations from 40 Countries) Submitted to Sumitomo Metal Mining | Friends of the Earth Japan
Ahead of Human Rights Day on December 10, an international petition calling for the suspe...

In #Wikimedia land, I created my first #Lua module in #WikimediaCommons: