A Worker Carries a Sack of Rice - Philippines

A Worker Carries a Sack of Rice - Philippines

A worker carries a sack of rice inside the National Food Authority (NFA) warehouse in Valenzuela City, the Philippines, on February 4, 2025. Philippine Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel declared a food security emergency on rice on Monday to stabilize the "extraordinary" rice prices in the country. "This emergency declaration allows us to release rice buffer stocks held by the NFA to stabilize prices and ensure that rice, a staple food for millions, remains accessible to consumers," Laurel said in a statement. Photo by Xinhua/Rouelle Umali/ABACAPRESS.COM

Philippines Declares Food Security Emergency To Curb High Rice Prices

Philippines Declares Food Security Emergency To Curb High Rice Prices

Workers carry sacks of rice inside the National Food Authority (NFA) warehouse in Valenzuela City, the Philippines, on Feb. 4, 2025. Philippine Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel declared a food security emergency on rice on Monday to stabilize the "extraordinary" rice prices in the country. "This emergency declaration allows us to release rice buffer stocks held by the National Food Authority (NFA) to stabilize prices and ensure that rice, a staple food for millions, remains accessible to consumers," Laurel said in a statement. Photo by Rouelle Umali/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

Philippines Declares Food Security Emergency To Curb High Rice Prices

Philippines Declares Food Security Emergency To Curb High Rice Prices

Workers carry sacks of rice inside the National Food Authority (NFA) warehouse in Valenzuela City, the Philippines, on Feb. 4, 2025. Philippine Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel declared a food security emergency on rice on Monday to stabilize the "extraordinary" rice prices in the country. "This emergency declaration allows us to release rice buffer stocks held by the National Food Authority (NFA) to stabilize prices and ensure that rice, a staple food for millions, remains accessible to consumers," Laurel said in a statement. Photo by Rouelle Umali/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

Philippines Declares Food Security Emergency To Curb High Rice Prices

Philippines Declares Food Security Emergency To Curb High Rice Prices

Workers carry sacks of rice inside the National Food Authority (NFA) warehouse in Valenzuela City, the Philippines, on Feb. 4, 2025. Philippine Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel declared a food security emergency on rice on Monday to stabilize the "extraordinary" rice prices in the country. "This emergency declaration allows us to release rice buffer stocks held by the National Food Authority (NFA) to stabilize prices and ensure that rice, a staple food for millions, remains accessible to consumers," Laurel said in a statement. Photo by Rouelle Umali/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

Philippines Declares Food Security Emergency To Curb High Rice Prices

Philippines Declares Food Security Emergency To Curb High Rice Prices

Workers carry sacks of rice inside the National Food Authority (NFA) warehouse in Valenzuela City, the Philippines, on Feb. 4, 2025. Philippine Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel declared a food security emergency on rice on Monday to stabilize the "extraordinary" rice prices in the country. "This emergency declaration allows us to release rice buffer stocks held by the National Food Authority (NFA) to stabilize prices and ensure that rice, a staple food for millions, remains accessible to consumers," Laurel said in a statement. Photo by Rouelle Umali/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

Philippines Declares Food Security Emergency To Curb High Rice Prices

Philippines Declares Food Security Emergency To Curb High Rice Prices

A warehouse administrator walks between rows of sacks of rice inside the National Food Authority (NFA) warehouse in Valenzuela City, the Philippines, on Feb. 4, 2025. Philippine Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel declared a food security emergency on rice on Monday to stabilize the "extraordinary" rice prices in the country. "This emergency declaration allows us to release rice buffer stocks held by the National Food Authority (NFA) to stabilize prices and ensure that rice, a staple food for millions, remains accessible to consumers," Laurel said in a statement. Photo by Rouelle Umali/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

Philippines Declares Food Security Emergency To Curb High Rice Prices

Philippines Declares Food Security Emergency To Curb High Rice Prices

A worker carries a sack of rice inside the National Food Authority (NFA) warehouse in Valenzuela City, the Philippines, on Feb. 4, 2025. Philippine Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel declared a food security emergency on rice on Monday to stabilize the "extraordinary" rice prices in the country. "This emergency declaration allows us to release rice buffer stocks held by the National Food Authority (NFA) to stabilize prices and ensure that rice, a staple food for millions, remains accessible to consumers," Laurel said in a statement. Photo by Rouelle Umali/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

Philippines Declares Food Security Emergency To Curb High Rice Prices

Philippines Declares Food Security Emergency To Curb High Rice Prices

A worker carries a sack of rice inside the National Food Authority (NFA) warehouse in Valenzuela City, the Philippines, on Feb. 4, 2025. Philippine Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel declared a food security emergency on rice on Monday to stabilize the "extraordinary" rice prices in the country. "This emergency declaration allows us to release rice buffer stocks held by the National Food Authority (NFA) to stabilize prices and ensure that rice, a staple food for millions, remains accessible to consumers," Laurel said in a statement. Photo by Rouelle Umali/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

Philippines Declares Food Security Emergency To Curb High Rice Prices

Philippines Declares Food Security Emergency To Curb High Rice Prices

Workers carry sacks of rice inside the National Food Authority (NFA) warehouse in Valenzuela City, the Philippines, on Feb. 4, 2025. Philippine Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel declared a food security emergency on rice on Monday to stabilize the "extraordinary" rice prices in the country. "This emergency declaration allows us to release rice buffer stocks held by the National Food Authority (NFA) to stabilize prices and ensure that rice, a staple food for millions, remains accessible to consumers," Laurel said in a statement. Photo by Rouelle Umali/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

U.S. democracy is flagging, rendering people's votes meaningless: Philippine expert

STORY: U.S. democracy is flagging, rendering people's votes meaningless: Philippine expert DATELINE: April 3, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:11 LOCATION: Manila CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the U.S. 2. SOUNDBITE (English): HERMAN TIU LAUREL, Founder of Philippine BRICS Strategic Studies 3. various of the U.S. STORYLINE: A Philippine expert has said that U.S. democracy is flagging in the eyes of the world and rendering the votes of the people meaningless. SOUNDBITE (English): HERMAN TIU LAUREL, Founder of Philippine BRICS Strategic Studies "American democracy has been deteriorating over the past decades. More people, more Americans believe their government serves the minority, not the majority. Now, I think the term democracy is simply from the old Greek name of people and the rule of the people, but it never said how that rule will be formed, what structures. The electoral and so-called democratic process has frozen into two warring parties. It's constant. There is never a compromise, a real compromise,

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Philippine expert hails China's social progress under CPC leadership as instructive

STORY: Philippine expert hails China's social progress under CPC leadership as instructive DATELINE: Sept. 30, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:10 LOCATION: Manila CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the development of China STORYLINE: A Philippine expert says the Communist Party of China (CPC), with a people-centered philosophy, has led the country to make progress in many aspects. Herman Tiu Laurel, a veteran journalist and founder of the Philippine-BRICS Strategic Studies think tank, points out that China's social progress is very instructive for the Philippines. SOUNDBITE (English): HERMAN TIU LAUREL, Founder of Philippine-BRICS Strategic Studies "I think everything about the Communist Party of China is people-centered from the very beginning. Its founding is about the people of China, bringing them out of poverty, of the feudal ages, and bringing them out of poverty of the underdeveloped state of China, of course in the process, also liberation of women in China, liberation of the culture, modernization of

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It Happened At The Worlds Fair - film (1963)

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IT HAPPENED AT THE WORLD'S FAIR

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