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What Happened?
LTFRB has added four more motorcycle taxi firms and that five-year motorcycle taxi pilot program has not been terminated | Inquirer
DOTr said the MRT-7 reached an overall progress rate of 69.86% as of April 2024 | GMA News
PRC said 20,890 elementary teachers out of 44,764 examinees (46.67%) and 50,539 secondary teachers out of 85,980 examinees (58.78%) successfully passed the LEPT given on Mar. 17 | GMA News
DTI issued the Tatak Pinoy Act implementing rules and regulations (IRR) | GMA News
Aghon, now a typhoon, is over coastal waters of Burdeos, Quezon | Inquirer
World
USDA said Philippines is once again the world’s largest rice importer, projected to import 4.1 million metric tons (MMT) this year, surpassing last year’s import of 3.9 MMT | Inquirer
Japan inflation slowed in April to 2.2 percent as gas bills fell, with the figure remaining above the Bank of Japan’s two percent target | Inquirer
Bank of Korea held the base policy rate at 3.5 percent for the 11th consecutive time, while raising the economic growth estimate from the previous 2.1 percent to 2.5 percent | Inquirer
WHO said COVID-19 pandemic cut global life expectancy by nearly two years | Inquirer
Mexico has registered 48 deaths in a series of heat waves since March | Inquirer
Study published stated mice fed raw cow's milk infected with bird flu experienced high levels of the virus in their lungs | GMA News
Landslide in a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea (PNG) killed about 100 people | GMA News
Colombia has started exploring a sunk 18th Century Spanish galleon dubbed the “holy grail of shipwrecks” | BBC
Extra
To Change the Way You Think, Change the Way You See | Harvard Business Review
The most creative social media strategies from local brands | F&B Report
This is how I ate my way around snowy Sapporo | Inquirer
The types of diets that are actually good for you | Preen
Why we always deserve to eat, according to nutritionist-dietitian Jo Sebastian | Preen
5 women-led youth orgs to look out for if you’re promoting change | Scout
Is it possible for long distance friendships to survive? | Scout
Why forgetting is beneficial | BBC
Explainer: What are COVID FLiRT variants? | Philstar
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