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                    [Title] => Freedom House: 'Limited gains' for democracy in Asia Pacific in 2022
                    [Summary] => In the Asia Pacific region, a number of countries have "overcome decades of dictatorship to establish resilient democracies," Freedom House said.
                    [DatePublished] => 2023-03-16 10:33:00
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                    [ArticleID] => 2250474
                    [Title] => Freedom House downgrades Peru, Burkina Faso but sees bright spots in countries like PH
                    [Summary] => Peru and Burkina Faso led a global deterioration in freedom last year but a number of other nations made improvements, including the Philippines, giving hope in the fight against authoritarianism, Freedom House said Thursday.
                    [DatePublished] => 2023-03-09 17:28:00
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                    [AuthorName] => 
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                    [ArticleID] => 2046959
                    [Title] => COVID-19 hurting democracies as governments take advantage of crisis — report
                    [Summary] => Among key government abuses observed during the pandemic, the Philippines experienced media restriction, protest restriction, detention or arrest and police violence.
                    [DatePublished] => 2020-10-03 18:22:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1806532
                    [AuthorName] => Ratziel San Juan
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
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                    [ArticleID] => 1985293
                    [Title] => US think tank wary of China-funded training for Filipino journalists
                    [Summary] => China has been providing training to some 75 countries, including the Philippines, which are not based on traditional democratic principles on press freedom, according to a report from rights advocacy group Freedom House.
                    [DatePublished] => 2020-01-16 12:13:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1645031
                    [AuthorName] => Patricia Lourdes Viray
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                    [ArticleID] => 1966213
                    [Title] => Disinformation, surveillance seen as growing threats to democracy: watchdog
                    [Summary] => Governments around the world are increasingly using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their citizens, in a worrisome trend for democracy, a human rights watchdog said Tuesday.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-11-05 15:27:00
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                    [SectionName] => World
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                    [ArticleID] => 1778955
                    [Title] => Philippines slides down in world freedom rankings
                    [Summary] => 

The Philippines dropped marginally in the 2018 world freedom rankings and was rated “partly free,” the same classification the country received in previous years.

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The Philippines and Indonesia for the second consecutive year stood out among their Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) neighbors in the Freedom in the World 2016 classification scoring 65 points each out of a possible 100 points.

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The year opens with the Philippines rating better in a list of 146 countries in terms of doing business. From 90th place in the previous year, the Philippines ranked 82nd in Forbes’ Countries for Business List for 2014.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/opinion/20150107/startoon.jpg ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1409916 [Title] => Best nations for doing business: Phl is 82nd [Summary] =>

The Philippines moved up eight places to rank 82nd out of 146 countries in Forbes’ Best Countries for Business List for 2014, up from 90th in the previous year.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1473425 [AuthorName] => Louella Desiderio [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/business/business-main/20141026/ppp-project-1.jpg ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1319553 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Important ingredient [Summary] =>

It is undeniable that an important part of a working democracy is a functioning free press.

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