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Bangladesh Overwhelmed with Grief at the Death of Khaleda Zia

The entire nation of Bangladesh is overwhelmed with grief following the death of Begum Khaleda Zia, the country’s first female Prime Minister and a figure renowned in political history as the ‘Uncompromising Leader.‘ On the morning of December 30, the…

The Witness to the Abuse of Women: A Pakistani Two-Anna Coin

Muradabad is a village in Islampur, Jamalpur. During the Liberation War of 1971, the Pakistani occupation forces established a camp at the local police station, just three kilometers from this village. The invaders would abduct innocent women from the village,…

EcoWaste Coalition Commiserates with the Family of 12-Year Old Boy Killed in Firecracker Blast

(Group pitches for “Ruzcel law” to address illegal use and disposal of firecrackers and fireworks) 30 December 2025, Quezon City.  The environmental watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition commiserated today with the family, classmates, and friends of Caezar Ruzcel R. Sarmiento of…

The universe does not advance in a straight line: The discovery of an “impossible” galaxy and the roughness of cosmic time

The discovery of an extremely metal-poor galaxy, observed thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, opens a fissure in the traditional cosmological narrative and invites us to think of the Universe not as a neat succession of closed stages, but…

Neocoherence: when order does not collapse, but is negotiated

For decades, physics has explained the transition from the quantum world to the classical world as a loss: coherence dissipates, superposition collapses, and reality “decides.” The notion of neocoherence proposes another reading: not the disappearance of quantum order, but its…

The time is not: it is being – Language, physics, and process in a universe that resists fixation

Contemporary physics has learned to describe the universe with unprecedented precision. Yet when it tries to say what time is, it stumbles again and again. Perhaps the problem lies not only in the models, but in the language through which…

Myanmar Stages First Phase of Polling with Thin Turnout

The military-ruled Myanmar (earlier known as Burma and Brahmadesh) staged the first phase of the general election on 28 December 2025 amid a civil war-like situation across the Southeast Asian nation with visibly low voter turnout. It covered 102 out…

BAN Toxics Appeals to PNP and Regulatory Agencies to Intensify Action Against Illegal Firecrackers and Prevent Injuries to People and Animals

Days before the New Year’s Eve celebrations, environmental watchdog BAN Toxics appealed to the Philippine National Police and regulatory agencies to intensify enforcement against the manufacture, distribution, sale, and use of prohibited firecrackers to prevent physical injuries and harmful health…

Iwas Paputoxic Drive in Caloocan City Presses People-, Pet- and Planet-Friendly Welcome to the New Year

29 December 2025, Caloocan City/Quezon City.  A few days before the much-anticipated countdown to the New Year, the EcoWaste Coalition teamed up with Barangay 179 in Caloocan City to drum up support for a people-, pet- and planet-friendly welcome to…

The invisible cost of corruption

For decades, Chile looked at itself in the mirror with complacency. We told ourselves we weren’t a corrupt country. The highest authorities of the State didn’t enrich themselves while in office, and there was no widespread corruption in the administrative…

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