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                    [Title] => UN launches new framework to eliminate rabies
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The United Nations has launched a new framework for the elimination of rabies that involves ensuring the availability of human vaccines and treatment and mass dog vaccination.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-26 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1431711 [Title] => Infographic: Philippines among world's fastest-growing economies [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2015-03-09 12:39:22 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/business/business-main/20150309/fast-economies-lead.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1334176 [Title] => Significant increase in adoption of biotech crop varieties noted [Summary] =>

The international agricultural community including the Philippines significantly increased its adoption of crop varieties processed through modern biotechnology.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 763392 [Title] => UN chief to focus on sustaining Arab Spring [Summary] =>

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in his second term as chief of the United Nations, wants to help people who rose up in the Arab Spring attain and sustain freedom and democracy.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-31 15:18:53 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 696767 [Title] => Volcano ash turns Asian eclipse blood red [Summary] =>

Asian and African night owls were treated to a lunar eclipse, and ash in the atmosphere from a Chilean volcano turned it blood red for some viewers.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-17 02:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 669321 [Title] => Japan faces its next chore: cleaning up [Summary] =>

Where do you even start? Do you start by carting away the Chokai Maru, the 150-foot (45-meter) ship that was lifted over a pier and slammed into a house in this port town? Do you start with the thousands of destroyed cars scattered like discarded toys in the city of Sendai? With the broken windows and the doorless refrigerators and the endless remnants of so many lives that clutter the canals?

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Hiding from merciless militiamen and trekking through unforgiving mountainous terrain, Madhel Majok escaped the mass slayings and genocide of the Sudan that killed his parents. The 9-year-old orphan fled to neighboring Kenya, where he then survived vigilante shellings on his crowded refugee camp.

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I recently paid a visit to Singapore. I know, it seems I’m always flying and reporting from there often, but it’s always a treat to visit the Lion City.

[DatePublished] => 2008-11-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133893 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1645585 [AuthorName] => Paulo Alcazaren [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 408837 [Title] => Global rice market seen to remain tight in 2009 [Summary] =>

Export restrictions by key producing nations, coupled with population growth, are expected to keep the global rice market ...

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