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Back with more news.
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Philippine investigators are reviewing the exchange of online messages by fraternity members
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involved in the death of Adamson University student John Matthew Salilig.
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The messages by Tau Gamma Phi fraternity members show how they tried to conceal their crime.
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Five persons of interest have already surrendered to the NBI
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in the investigation of the alleged hazing death of John Matthew Salilig.
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Contents of the alleged chat group of the Tau Gamma Phi fraternity were also submitted to the NBI
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and is now under scrutiny.
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Members talked about the condition of one member, though Salilig was not named.
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Before 9 p.m., Salilig was brought to the house of a frat man
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which is consistent with the statement of one member.
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The group struggled to bring him inside the house.
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Another frat man gave instructions to startle and forcibly awaken Salilig,
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including biting his fingers.
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They were also told to not bring him to the hospital.
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They were also instructed to avoid CCTVs in the house.
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By 9.45, the group panicked when they noticed that Salilig was not breathing,
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despite administering CPR.
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At this point, the exchange of messages suggests Salilig did not recover.
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It was past midnight when they talked about deleting messages.
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They also agreed to dispose of Salilig's body.
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They looked for a bed sheet to wrap around Salilig's body
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and there was an order to replace the car's plate number.
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A canal in Cavite was identified by the group until there was an order to throw the body.
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It was 8 the following morning when members started leaving the group chat one by one
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until the group chat was deleted.
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Alias Biggy, an officer of the fraternity, denied the allegations on Wednesday
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that he was involved in the planning of the initiation and polishing the paddles
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which were specified in the chat group.
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The lawyer of Alias Void, another person of interest,
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explained that while he had participation in the initiation,
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he says it was born out of fear.
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Ang binabasa ko ng Akinapit, parang lumalabas kasama siya sa pagplano eh.
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Ano yun, mga ano na yun, tinanong ko rin yun sa kanya.
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Wala silang magagawa kasi out of fear.
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Lahat sila parang ganun ang nangyari.
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Kung hindi ka sasama, ikaw ang susunod.
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The NBI will create a timeline of events and enumerate the participation of each fratman.
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Now, regional operations begin after a Cessna plane that went missing in Isabela
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was finally located following more than a month of search.
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Anjo Bagawisan has more.
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After 44 days, the search is over for the Cessna 206 plane that went missing
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over the Sierra Madva mountain range in Isabela province.
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The local government revealed Thursday a composite team of rescuers from the town of Makunakon
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had found the plane that morning along the slopes of Ditarum village in the neighboring town of Divilacan.
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The crash site is within the 20-kilometer radius of Makunakon Airport,
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the plane's destination during its flight last January 24.
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Hindi siya buo, so hiwalay po siya.
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May mga nakasabi, may nasa lupa.
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So nasa slope po siya.
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The pilot and six passengers, among them a teenager and a boy, did not survive.
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The Isabela incident management team says relatives of the victims have been notified.
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All rescuers are pitching in for the recovery effort.
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But they say various factors, including unpredictable weather and the untracked, dense terrain in the mountainous region,
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are expected to pose a challenge to retrieval efforts.
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They estimate the bodies could be brought down to the town center by Sunday
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and then flown to Hawaiian City for further identification.
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Wala pong lugar na patag.
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So wala pong established path dun sa lugar na yon.
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Especially na meron po silang daladala ngayon ng mga nilabi po ng mga pasahero at piloto.
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Kaya matatagalan po yung kanilang pagbaba.
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Some relatives of the passengers have proceeded to the crash site after learning the news.
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Hindi ko alam ang feeling niyo pero ayak na masaya rin.
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The provincial government tells ANC they will provide aid to those left behind.
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We provide all the necessary assistance to the relatives, especially the young kids that were inside that plane.
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It's only, I think, the pilot that is not from Isabela.
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In the meantime, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines is conducting its own official confirmation of the plane
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from its investigators who are already on site.
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It is a matter of procedure po that we have to identify the aircraft kung yan po talaga yung aeroplano.
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The possibility is there pero kailangan po talaga physically makita po yan
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bago po natin ma-declare na yan po talaga yung aeroplanong nawawala.
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While the search is over for the second Cessna plane to go down in the Philippines this year,
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the search for answers to what happened to this plane has only begun.
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Andrew Bagawisan, ABS-CBN News.
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The massive oil spill in Oriental Mindoro now threatening the coastlines of Liwagaw, the island in Antique.
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Denise Datu reports.
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Residents of Liwagaw Island in Antique say the oil spill reached their shores last Saturday
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and has affected at least two kilometers of their prize white sand shores.
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Those involved in the cleanup say they are forced to bury the collected oil due to the lack of empty containers.
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Kailangan namin kukunin yan pag may mga available na empty dam.
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Unain muna namin yung pagkulikta yung sa tabi nga playa.
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Mga abutin siguro ng isang daang dram.
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Isang daang dram ang binaon niyo?
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Yes, sir.
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Ito, alos ang hiriang ito ay mayroong nakabaon.
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Noong hindi panabaon, sumakit po ang dedo ko at medyo nawawalan po ako ng boses.
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The oil spill has also destroyed several hectares of seaweed plantation, the island's primary source of livelihood.
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In the meantime, representatives from the provincial capital of Oriental Mindoro visited the island on Thursday.
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They brought with them food packs, drinking water, and medical supplies for residents affected by the oil spill.
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Wala ang pambinay ng ulan. Wala ang ulan. Hindi rin pwede makapangyayos na.
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Gutom talaga, sir.
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In the town of Pola, more residents continue to suffer from the loss of livelihood.
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Many are complaining the government subsidy is not enough.
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Sana po mabigyan niyo kami ng tulong kasi gawa po nang kami po talaga ang matinding tinamaan po ng oil spill.
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Marami pong mga tao dito talagang magugutom.
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The task force created by the local government unit has discussed the possible charges it will file against the owner of the sunken, empty Princess Empress.
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Yun yung unang-unang tinatakal, yung pinupunta ng investigation. Yung ano yung papanagutan nila.
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Pola Mayor Jennifer Cruz is also appealing for any kind of support for the residents since the town's limited calamity fund is almost gone.
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Dennis Datu, ABS-CBN News, Oriental Mindoro.
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Environmental groups, meanwhile, warn of the decades-long impact of the oil spill in Mindoro
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as they call on the Philippine government to take immediate action.
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Lady Vicencio reports.
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Civic groups decry the lack of information from the Philippine government on the extent of the oil spill in Oriental Mindoro.
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In an online forum, environmental groups Oceana Philippines and Greenpeace Philippines
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called for transparency from the government about vital information that could help affected communities
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handle the oil spill and prevent further contamination.
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Oceana senior campaign manager Daniel Campo described the current government response as a repeat of what happened in the Guimaras oil spill in 2006.
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We salute government agencies for doing their part, but we think there's not enough information that's available so there's preparedness.
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Greenpeace campaigner Jefferson Chua recalled how natives of Iloilo like him felt left behind after the Guimaras oil spill.
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Chua says it took seven years for coastal communities to recover.
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About 560 liters of oil waste mixture have been collected by the Philippine Coast Guard from the site where the tanker supposedly sank.
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A Coast Guard official said the amount of oil collected can be attributed to their dispersal operations.
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But environmentalists were alarmed with the use of dispersants since this only breaks down oil into smaller forms.
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Dispersants are toxic and they don't actually make the oil disappear. Oil residue essentially is left in the area.
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So I guess it's one of the things that we also need to hear from the government why these specific interventions are being done.
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Oceana Legal and Policy Director Attorney Lisa Osorio said the incident could have been prevented if marine laws were properly implemented.
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Oil tankers now should be safely built and operated and are constructed to reduce the amount of oil spill.
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Safety regulations such as a mandatory traffic separation and sea lanes where these oil tankers would pass through.
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Mayor Jean Te of Libertad Town in Antique also expressed concerns the oil spill could affect their tuna industry.
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Tuna season dito sa area namin. So tons of tunas are being caught through sustainable fishing.
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I'm just so worried na baka baka lang mag-change, mag-shift ang hangin at pupunta dito sa Northern Antique.
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It has to be more of a preventive muna talagang bago dumating yun.
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Lady Vicentio, ABS-CBN News.
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The Marcos administration announces a massive infrastructure program that's expected to accelerate job generation in the Philippines.
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This is government data showed a rise in the country's unemployment and underemployment rates.
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Warren de Guzman reports.
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The National Economic and Development Authority or NEDA is confident that the newly approved infrastructure projects of the Marcos administration
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will help address unemployment in the Philippines.
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On Thursday morning the NEDA board chaired by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. finalized the list of 194 new infrastructure flagship projects
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amounting to about nine trillion pesos.
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A hundred and twenty-three of those have been initiated by the Marcos government
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while others are continuing projects from the previous administrations.
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Included in the list are Panay Railway Project, Mindanao Railway Project 3,
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North Long Haul Railway, San Mateo Railway, the UPPGH Diliman Project,
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Naya Rehabilitation Project, Ilocosur Trans Basin Project and the Metro Cebu Expressway.
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This IFP and especially once they are rolled out, implemented, will boost employment opportunities
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because these are investments, these are construction, there will be construction activities,
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massive construction activities and that will improve the investment climate in the country
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so that more investors can come in, both domestic and foreign,
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and the current investors can expand their operations, those will create jobs.
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The Philippine Statistics Authority on Thursday said Philippine unemployment rose to 4.8% in January,
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the second straight month joblessness has increased.
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2.37 million Filipinos were jobless that month, up 132,000 quarter on quarter
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and 150,000 month on month.
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Underemployment also increased, rebounding back above 14% after falling to 12.6% in December.
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6.65 million Filipino workers said they want more work or better paying work in January
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from just 6.2 million in December.
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National Statistician Undersecretary Dennis Mapa says the increase in unemployment and underemployment is seasonal
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as hotels, restaurants and wholesale and retail traders normalize following the holidays.
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Mapa says even though unemployment has risen for two months, the overall trend is still downward
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and joblessness is much lower compared to the highs hit during the peak of the pandemic.
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It's now below the 5% level which I can say is going back to the pre-pandemic level.
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The trend is going down since July 2022.
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So the indicators seem to be showing that the unemployment rate will go back to the pre-pandemic level
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starting this year 2023 and it started in the second half of 2022.
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Sunny Africa of the IBAN Foundation, however, says government needs to wake up.
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He says increasing unemployment and underemployment coupled with elevated inflation
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show the situation is dire for wage workers and low-income households.
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The reality is informality is worsening.
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Anywhere from 40% to as much as 70% depending on how I define it of our employees is informal
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which actually basically means that anywhere from 40% to 70% of our population is actually in irregular and informal work.
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And it's not even counting wage earners or maybe not even receiving the minimum wage.
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The big picture is consumption, household consumption will definitely go down.
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So all this nonsense about revenge spending among Filipinos from reopening
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that might have been true for high-income Filipinos but most Filipinos right now are actually spending less
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because they're earning less and they're facing higher prices.
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Warren De Guzman, ABS-CBN News.
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We will take another break. Head Start will be right back.
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We will take another break. Head Start will be right back.
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If we do follow the health protocols, the ability of people to move around will likely contribute better to growth.
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If we do follow the health protocols, the ability of people to move around will likely contribute better to growth.
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If we do follow the health protocols, the ability of people to move around will likely contribute better to growth.
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If we do follow the health protocols, the ability of people to move around will likely contribute better to growth.
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If we do follow the health protocols, the ability of people to move around will likely contribute better to growth.
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If we do follow the health protocols, the ability of people to move around will likely contribute better to growth.
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If we do follow the health protocols, the ability of people to move around will likely contribute better to growth.
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Welcome back to Head Start. You may remember Hillary Dayan-Andales as the first Filipino winner of the Breakthrough Junior Challenge,
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which has been dubbed as the Oscars of Science.
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After that competition, it came as no surprise that she ended up studying at the esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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where she's currently a graduating student majoring in physics.
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Hillary now plans to pursue a doctoral degree.
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Problem is, how do you decide where to go when you get accepted in not one, but seven top universities in the U.S.?
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Well, let's ask her. Welcome to Head Start, Hillary.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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Hi, Hillary. The last time I saw you was in 2019 at the U.S. Embassy.
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I still remember we had an interview, and back then, you were still just about to start your journey in MIT.
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And right now, congratulations are in order.
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I understand that the acceptance rate to one of those universities is just at 2 to 3 percent, and yet you managed to bag all seven universities.
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What's the secret?
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Thank you so much. Actually, I still remember the article you wrote about me, and that was already four years ago.
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And yeah, so I'm very, very thankful that I ended my journey with all these acceptances.
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And as a sophomore student at MIT, I actually did not expect that I would receive all these offers of admission to all these Ph.D. programs.
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But I think all the hard work really paid off.
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I spent a lot of my time doing research and studying, improving my grades, and also doing leadership work and outreach.
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So all of those combined, I think, probably helped me reach this point.
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Well, have you decided which university to go?
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I have not yet, actually.
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So I should decide at the end of March, probably.
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But in order to help me decide, I'm currently visiting all the different departments that gave me offers.
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So last weekend, I was at the University of Chicago.
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Just yesterday, I was at Columbia in New York.
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And currently, I'm actually in the University of Michigan and Arbor.
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So these visits will be helpful so I can get to see what the professors are like, what the other graduate students are like, and see the potential advisors and the research match.
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Because in a Ph.D. program, the research really matters the most.
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And you're, of course, set still to visit Yale and Stanford as well.
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Any frontrunners so far?
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Not yet, not sure.
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So I'm still open to all of these different universities.
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They all have different strengths.
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Some of them have a lot of access to the biggest telescopes in the world.
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Some of them have a lot of access to computational resources, so all these big supercomputers and so on.
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And some of them are in big cities.
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Others are in smaller towns.
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So I'm really weighing all these different factors.
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But right now, maybe I'm considering Yale, Stanford, and University of Chicago.
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Those are probably my frontrunners.
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Well, looking forward to hear which university you'll choose.
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But let's go back to our 2019 interview.
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Back then, you told me that you wanted to become a research scientist and hopefully contribute to the improvement of Philippine science communications.
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Has that dream changed over the years?
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Actually, surprisingly, that dream has not changed too much.
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So I still want to be a research scientist, which is why I'm pursuing this Ph.D. in the first place,
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because the Ph.D. is the sixth-year training ground to become a researcher.
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And, of course, in addition to doing research, I also want to do science communication.
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And I want to center my work in the Philippines because I think I have the most room to make an impact in the Philippines.
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And, of course, I want to give back to the land that really nurtured me.
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So, of course, both of these, both of my ambitions are going hand in hand, so the research side and the science communication side.
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And I hope that I get to do more of it in the future.
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For the information of our viewers, what makes Hillary more interesting is that she is a survivor of Super Typhoon Yolanda.
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She vividly recalled how she survived that storm back then.
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Will your efforts in the Philippines, will your future researches in the Philippines still revolve around that aspect, weather?
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For now, not really. So, currently, my research interests are in astronomy and astrophysics.
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So, a lot of my research will be about galaxies and how our own galaxy, like the Milky Way, formed.
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And I will use telescopes to help answer that question.
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But broadly, more broadly, my interest is in getting people more interested in science in its broadest form.
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So, not just astronomy, but also all kinds of sciences.
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So, biology, chemistry, physics, and including weather, meteorology.
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And my plan is to spread that kind of science awareness, not just in astronomy, but all of these other fields as well.
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So, that would include weather. And hopefully, I want to also spread more science literacy, more media literacy,
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because all of these skills are really important.
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And that goes into my work of spreading science awareness and science literacy.
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How did you decide to have or to tap this kind of advocacy?
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How difficult is it for a Filipina to actually make her own mark in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics sector?
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So, as you mentioned earlier, I indeed was a survivor of Super Typhoon Haiyan or Yolanda in 2013.
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And that really opened my eyes to how much science communication can spell the difference between life and death.
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And I've heard from accounts in Tacloban and in Leyte that a lot of people really were not aware about the risks of the storm surge,
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and that was not communicated properly.
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And as a result of that, I became a lot more deeply aware about the value of science communication.
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And that really started me into this journey of making science reach more people.
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And of course, when I joined the Breakthrough Junior Challenge in 2017, that just furthered my passion even more.
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And now, four years on, I'm still doing a lot of work, giving public talks, making videos,
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and trying to improve my skills in getting more people interested and excited about science.
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And as a woman, I know that historically, it's been difficult for women to break through in this field of science
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because the higher you go up in the career ladder of science, so let's say from your high school level to the college level,
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to the PhD level, up until the professor level, you lose more and more women along the way.
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And a lot of it is because of systemic barriers preventing women, and some of it is also sexism,
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and then some inherent biases within the field.
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And that is what's been stopping some women from continuing on in the field.
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And that is a really unfortunate issue that we have to contend with today.
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But fortunately for me, I've been really lucky in that I've been surrounded by many women mentors,
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so women professors and graduate students who've been really supportive of me and my journey.
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And I haven't faced any overt sexism personally, but I do know that other women around me have faced these issues.
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So it's a very complex topic, but I've just been thankful that I've reached up to this point in my journey.
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And what's the glass ceiling for someone like Hilary Dayan-Andales so far?
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No, I actually don't think about glass ceilings at all. So it's an open journey and an open road for me, and no glass ceiling for me.
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Great for you. Well, back then, you also mentioned that you wanted to land an internship at the CERN,
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or the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Is that still part of the plan so far?
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No, not anymore, actually. So the last time we talked, that was back then when I was still more interested in particle physics.
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But now I'm a lot more interested in astrophysics, so the big things in space as opposed to the small things inside of the atoms.
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I understand. You've been posting a lot about black holes on your social media recently.
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Yes, yes, exactly. So now I'm a lot more interested in using telescopes as opposed to the particle smashers or particle accelerators.
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So last month, actually, I spent the entire, not last month, but last January, I spent the entire month in Teide Observatory in Spain.
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So I lived at the top of the Teide volcano in Tenerife in the Canary Islands in Spain.
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And I just spent the whole month studying things called tidal disruption events.
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So things that happen, these are violent events that happen when a black hole gets, when a star gets eaten by a black hole.
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And I used telescopes to study that, and it was really, really fun.
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And those are the kinds of things that I want to do more of in the future.
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So hopefully I get to travel to all these countries with the big telescopes in the world.
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And those are the kinds of tools that I want to use in my research.
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You know, Hilary, to our viewers, your life may sound so exciting, so exhilarating,
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but then what they might not know is that you used to keep an attempts folder. Do you still have that?
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Well, just for context, for our viewers, she has this so-called attempts folder,
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and she keeps her failed experiments, competitions she lost.
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She said before that it helps make her improve her craft. Do you still have that?
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And how did that, well, I'm guessing that must have basically not been updated
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based on the feats that you have received so far?
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Actually, it has grown a lot.
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So since the last time we met four years ago, I've had a lot more rejections and failures.
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And I try to be more and more transparent about all of the failures that I face in my life,
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just because some people have this image of success where it's just flawless all throughout.
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But deep down, if you read further into it, success is really about going through more failures.
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And then the success just comes as a result of you learning from those failures.
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I take failure as a learning opportunity.
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So throughout my time at MIT, I've failed some exams.
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I've cried about some homework, and I keep all of those documented.
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And those just really helped me put everything into perspective
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that all these failures really are just learning opportunities.
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As I say, when you fail, you don't really fail. You only learn.
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Okay. And finally, Hilary, what advice do you give to other Filipinas who aspire to be like you someday,
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to somehow land scholarships and possibly doctoral degrees from esteemed universities in the United States,
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despite a very limited window of opportunity here in the country?
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Yes. I would really want other women, especially the younger women, to find mentors
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and find a really, really helpful support network.
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And for me, that has been what's been really helpful for my journey.
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The fact that I was surrounded by all of these mentors, graduate students and professors
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who were really supportive of my journey, and also friends who were around when I was failing
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and going through a hard time. And that's really, really important.
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And the next thing that I would like to say is to really look at the Internet.
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The Internet is incredible for finding resources.
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And a lot of the opportunities I found so far have been through digging the Internet for these opportunities.
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And I would really advise everyone to look at, for example, Pinoy Scientists, the Facebook page, the Instagram page.
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They have a long list of Pinoy scientists all over the world in the Philippines doing great work.
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And they have a lot of advice in there as well. So I encourage you to look into that.
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And lastly, to never be afraid of failure.
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Well said. But unfortunately, that's all the time we have for today.
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Great catching up with you. Thanks for joining us this morning, Hillary Dayan-Andales.
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Keep making the Philippines proud.
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Thank you so much.
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And that's Head Start today. I'm Katrina Domingo. Thank you for watching.
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