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EcoWaste Coalition Urges Local Authorities to Protect their Constituents and the Ecosystems from Toxic Mercury in Skin Lightening Products
4 September 2025, Quezon City. The EcoWaste Coalition appealed to city and municipal authorities to actively cooperate with the national government and other sectors in eliminating the unlawful trade of contraband mercury-added cosmetics for whitening the skin tone. Over two…
Beyond the Defeat: Unpacking the Systemic Failures Holding Pakistani Football Back
Despite yesterday’s devastating defeat to Iraq in the U23 qualifying round, the potential for athletic excellence in Pakistan is not a myth. Our nation is a world champion in squash, hockey, cricket, and snooker, proving our inherent capacity to compete…
China Is Unlikely To Play A Major Role In The Ukrainian Endgame
The most that China is expected to do is deploy peacekeepers together with other countries per a potentially forthcoming UNSC Resolution that would likely see these forces jointly patrol whatever the “Line of Contact” may be and monitor each side’s…
CONSUMER SAFETY ALERT: Food-Like Plastic Toys May Pose Serious Health Risks to Children
Chemicals and waste watchdog BAN Toxics has raised concerns over the sale of food-like plastic toys suspected to contain health-damaging substances. As part of its safe toys for kids advocacy, the group purchased the said toys for testing at P50…
EcoWaste Coalition Calls for Stronger Measures to Stop Lead Paint Imports
Laboratory Tests Confirm Lead Content in 27 Imported Paints Sold Locally 31 August 2025, Quezon City. Confirmatory analyses contracted by the EcoWaste Coalition and undertaken by SGS, a global testing company, verified the presence of toxic lead in 27 paint samples…
PEC Expresses Concern Over Suspicious Journo-deaths
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over repeated deaths of Bangladeshi journalists in mysterious situations and urges the interim government in Dhaka to launch a genuine probe to find the reasons…
The Second Flood: Water, Disease, and a Deluge of Fear
The recent floods in Punjab, Pakistan, present a formidable force of nature. The water, flowing from the northern highlands down to the southern plains, moves with an inexorable gravity. Its immense volume, destructive force, and dense, debris-filled current possess the…
Top US Officials Shared Ridiculous Reasons For Their Country’s Punitive Tariffs On India
They claim that it’s “profiteering” off of the Ukrainian Conflict and “funding Putin’s war machine”. The US punished India for its energy imports from Russia by imposing additional 25% tariffs on it, thus bringing their total tariffs to 50%, despite…
25th summit of SCO: “We must oppose cold war mentality and bloc confrontation, and promote a multipolar, just, and orderly world.”
Thus declared Xi Jinping before the leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) at its 2025 summit, a two-day meeting in the city of Tianjin, China In a global context dominated by tension, regional conflicts, and geopolitical disputes, the Chinese…
Dealing with Bangladesh’s Bad Loan Crisis
Bangladesh’s banking sector is living with a problem everyone knows about but too many prefer to look away from: non-performing loans (NPLs). By the end of 2024, distressed assets such as loans that are defaulted, rescheduled, or written off had…
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