EDITORIALS & CARTOONS
SINGAPORE’S The Straits Times
The Straits Times says:
Pay heed to global trash tensions
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Plastics and politics may have seemed an unlikely pairing once upon a time. That is no longer true. As awareness of environmental issues gains ground globally, politicians have come under pressure to act. Two recent decisions taken by the governments of the Philippines and Malaysia point to this change in sentiment.
As the world marked World Environment Day yesterday, over 60 shipping containers of rubbish were making their way back to Canada from the Philippines, following a very public push by President Rodrigo Duterte to have Canadians take back their own trash. “I cannot understand why they’re making us a dump site,” Mr Duterte said at a news conference last month, referring to the tonnes of household waste, plastic bottles and bags, and assorted non-recyclable waste at the centre of a diplomatic spat with Canada. The garbage had been billed as “recyclable plastic”.
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THAILAND’S BANGKOK POST
EDITORIAL :
Activists face chilling threat
The latest barbaric assault on anti-junta activist Sirawith Seritiwat sends a chill down the spine with the prospect that, given the current trajectory of polarised Thai politics, the worst is probably yet to come.
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While the attack follows a pattern of similar previous assaults on two other anti-regime activists over the past 18 months, the frequency of the violence has been on the rise. And…
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https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1689532/activists-face-chilling-threat
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# PHILIPPINES’ EDITORIAL CARTOONS:
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# MANILA STANDARD
> No time for tokens
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# MANILA TIMES
> LAWMAKERS AGREE ON TOBACCO TAX INCREASE
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P.D.INQUIRER
> Disgraceful decision
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> air pollution
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PILIPINO STAR NGAYON
> Huwag kalimutan ang mga guro
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