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FDA Warns Consumers vs. 7 Cosmetics Sold Online Without Authorization

EcoWaste Coalition Urges Consumers to Seek Authorized Products  to Avoid Quality and Safety Issues 28 March 2025, Quezon City.  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned the public against the purchase and use of unauthorized skincare cosmetics from China…

Dhaka eyeing deeper economic cooperation with Beijing ahead of Yunus’s China visit

Bangladesh and China have enjoyed friendly relations since establishing diplomatic ties in 1975. Since then, cooperations between China and Bangladesh have risen exponentially. Bilateral ties between the two countries started solidifying, identifying each other’s interests and priorities. The relationship has…

Roots of Filipino Humanism (2) “Bayanihan”

The bayanihan spirit. It’s an age-old Filipino tradition of helping others without expecting anything in return, a core value of Filipino culture, a palpable sense of  community and cooperation, that is still alive today. The word bayanihan comes from the…

India shies over Yunus-Modi talks

India has not declined a meeting with Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, Chief adviser of Bangladesh Interim Government and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. South Block in New Delhi did not respond to a request for Yunus-Modi state-level bilateral meeting…

A Beacon of Harmony: South India’s Inaugural Peace Pagoda Draws Global Celebration

by Mitsutake Ikeda In a historic moment for South India, the region’s first Peace Pagoda was officially inaugurated on February 21, 2025, on a serene site near Sankarankovil. The ceremony marked the culmination of a remarkable Peace March that began…

Rohingya Refugees Return Dim, Dimmer, and Dimmest

Three significant developments have occurred in a week which once again brought the much-talked-about Rohingya refugee crisis to the global media. First, last week United Nations Secretary General António Guterres visited the Rohingya refugees living in squalid camps in south-east…

RSS Calls for Global Solidarity with Bangladesh’s Hindu Community

Guwahati: The Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha 2025 (ABPS) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Saturday expressed its serious concern on the unabated and planned violence, injustice, and oppression faced by the Hindu and other religious minority communities at the…

EcoWaste Coalition Backs Listing of Additional Chemicals in Stockholm and Rotterdam Conventions

24 March 2025, Quezon City.  To protect human and environmental health, the EcoWaste Coalition, a participating organization of the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN), expressed its support for the addition of several industrial chemicals and pesticides in two global treaties…

The Cancerous River Ghaggar: Who Will Emancipate It?

Just within a month after BJP’s win in the Delhi Assembly, how did Haryana CM Saini change his previous standpoint? And how have the dirt and effluents in the same Yamuna River water become visible, which previously was being claimed…

Migrants Anti-racial Discrimination Rally in South Korea

To mark the 2025 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, South Korea-based national migrant human rights organizations staged a rally in front of Seoul Station Plaza Stairs. They once again affirmed to create a world without hate and…

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