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Rudy Santos - The Philippine Star September 23, 2021 | 12:00am President Duterte delivers his pre-recorded speech before the 76th United Nations General Assembly yesterday. STAR / File MANILA, Philippines — President Duterte lambasted yesterday rich countries over their “selfish” plan to give COVID-19 booster shots to their citizens as…

Historians may well record that the use of the word “Biafra” to get self-determination has been the biggest scam of the 21st Century. Those pulling it off are banking on several things: a population that does not like to read, emotionalism, and corruption. By reading, one would have learned that…

Mobile phone users are all “photographers” now. Camera-phones have made everyone an expert at capturing beautiful sunsets, using the most flattering filters, and perfecting the ultimate “selfie” pose. Some people take their selfies quite seriously, finding unique venues, challenging angles, and outrageous ways to create a picture that will impress…

In recent years, the books of liberals have shrunk in line with their aspirations. For 2019’s A Thousand Small Sanities, New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik took 272 pages to explain, groovily, how liberalism is “teenage texting raised to the power of law.” Last year, The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum published…

Ndi Igbo, Allow me to say how as a child I was most proud to be born into the Igbo Race. My Dad, late Ambassador Raph Uwechue told us such inspiring stories about the achievements of Ndi Igbo, and I was really impressed by what I learned from him (and…

The Sims 4’s Spa Day Game Pack, which was first released over six years ago in 2015, is receiving a free update this week that adds nail designs created by modder Ebonix. The update, which will be available on September 7th, adds a host of other features including a new…

Major Chinese social media platforms, including WeChat, Weibo, Douyin, and Kuaishou, said they would rectify “self-media” accounts that have violated rules when publishing financial information. The moves came after the country’s internet watchdog, the Cyberspace Administration of China, said it would look into accounts that have repeatedly released financial news…

For most of this week, the right has raged about Simone Biles. By deciding to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics to focus on her mental health—a wholly reasonable decision given that gymnastics is an extraordinarily dangerous sport even when participating athletes are at peak condition—the greatest gymnast of all time…

Fox News host Dagen McDowell pushed back on Wednesday against Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance’s assertion that superstar gymnast Simone Biles’ withdrawal from Olympic events over mental-health concerns shouldn’t be seen as heroic, declaring that Biles “deserves praise up and down all day long until the end of time.” After…

Well, that didn’t take long. Following superstar gymnast Simone Biles citing concerns of mental health after shockingly pulling out of the women’s team competition, a number of conservative media figures and pundits attacked her on Tuesday for supposedly being a “quitter” and “selfish sociopath” who had brought “shame on her…