After a landslide win in what Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zuibiri has described as a “historical” election, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was proclaimed the country’s 17th president last Wednesday, alongside his running mate, Vice President Sara Duterte. With an overwhelming 31.6 million votes for Marcos Jr. and 32.2 million votes for Duterte, it was “the first time that the Philippines has elected a majority president and vice president’’ under the 1987 Constitution, Zubiri said. He noted
Los Baños, Laguna—In March 2019, a young Cuvier’s beaked whale was found on the verge of death along the shores of Mabini, Davao de Oro, and when a necropsy was performed, nearly 40 kilos of plastic was found in its stomach—including rice sacks and grocery bags. “The plastic in some areas was so compact it was almost becoming calcified, almost like a solid brick,” Darrell Blatchley, who owns a museum in Davao City, was quoted by The New York Times as saying. “It had been there for so long it had started to compact.” For a moment, the whale served as
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