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Time to junk Parex | The Manila Times

GIVEN the manifold problems associated with the Pasig River Expressway (Parex) and overwhelming negative sentiment, the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) should do the right thing and cancel the project without delay. The signals, from project stakeholders and from the Marcos administration are abundantly clear: the proposed road does not belong anywhere near the Pasig River.

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Humans are already trashing Mars – despite never setting foot on it: Shocking map reveals the 15,694lbs of space junk piling up on the Red Planet including crashed spacecraft and discarded drill bits

Despite never even setting foot on the planet, human-made space junk is already piling up on Mars.  A new map reveals the locations of debris from spacecraft that have landed on Mars in the past 53 years, including the now defunct Ingenuity helicopter.  This junk includes bits of metal landing equipment, heat shields, used parachutes,

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Investors warn of ‘complacency’ over junk bond risks

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The junk bond market has become “complacent” over the risks facing corporate America after a sharp drop in debt funding costs, some investors and economists warn, with high interest rates and a possible economic downturn

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Global

‘So much’ of the green agenda is ‘complete junk’

Phasing out fossil fuels is a “big joke,” according to The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan. Mr Sheridan’s remarks come after the United Nations climate conference COP28 dropped the phasing out of fossil fuels in a draft agreement. “The whole thing is just a big joke,” he told Sky News Australia. “So much of this

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Junk Insurance  | AIER

The Biden administration has recently come out on the offensive against short-term “junk insurance” plans that they claim play consumers as “suckers,” asserting their the effort will lower health care costs for Americans. But The Wall Street Journal described it as “forcing Americans to buy expensive products they don’t want or need.”  Biden’s proposal traces

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Fitch cuts Country Garden unit to junk

BEIJING: Fitch has downgraded to junk the credit rating of a subsidiary of Chinese property giant Country Garden, citing “heightened liquidity pressure” at the troubled firm. Country Garden, China’s largest private developer in terms of sales last year, has amassed more than $150 billion in debt and said this month it had failed to make

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