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SWS: Duterte admin's satisfaction rating rises to 'excellent'

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 06 02:57 PM

Public satisfaction with the administration of President Rodrigo has risen to "excellent", according to an opinion survey released Friday. Read more »

SWS survey: Majority of Pinoys believe AFP can quell foreign threats, rebels, terrorists

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 05 08:37 PM

MANILA - Most Filipinos believe the country's military can defend the Philippine territory, including the West Philippine Sea, against foreign threats and quell communist rebels and terrorists, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey released Thursday showed. Read more »

Unemployment steady, underemployment falls in January

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 05 10:50 AM

The Philippines maintained a 5.3 unemployment rate in January with the estimated number of unemployed persons at 2.39 million from 2.28 million for previously, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed. Read more »

VP keeps 'good' satisfaction rating; Senate, House leaders 'very good': SWS

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 03 05:50 PM

The public remained satisfied with Vice President Leni Robredo after her brief stint as drug war co-chair, while more Filipinos approved of House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano's performance in the last quarter of 2019, an independent survey showed Tuesday. Read more »

New minimoon found orbiting Earth. There will be more

Rebecca Boyle, The New York Times
Updated as of Feb 28 12:14 PM

Earth gets a new moon most months, but this month, we got two.About 4 a.m. on Feb. 15 at the Mount Lemmon Observatory, 9,000 feet above Tucson, Arizona, two astronomers from the Catalina Sky Survey, Kacper Wierzchos and Theodore Pruyne, watched as their computer screens registered a dot moving against a static background of stars. Read more »

SWS: 7 out of 10 Filipinos OK with nationwide ban on single-use plastic

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 22 07:40 PM

A survey showed that 71 percent of respondents want plastics banned at all times, while 10 percent said consumers who use plastics should pay extra. Read more »

Duterte reaches record-high 'excellent' satisfaction rating: SWS

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Posted at Jan 21 09:03 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte received a new record-high satisfaction rating in the fourth quarter of 2019, a Social Weather Stations survey revealed Tuesday. Read more »

Majority of Pinoys believe gov't violated human rights under drug war

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 13 04:39 PM

Majority of Filipinos believe authorities committed "many" human rights abuses in its anti-narcotics campaign, an independent Social Weather Stations poll released Sunday showed. Read more »

Quake rattles Puerto Rico but no injuries reported

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 07 01:38 AM

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook Puerto Rico Monday, toppling houses and causing power outages and small landslides but there were no reports of casualties. Read more »

96 pct of Pinoys 'entering 2020 with hope, instead of fear': SWS

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 29 12:00 PM

Nearly all Filipinos are set to enter 2020 "with hope," according to a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey released Saturday, 3 days before the turn of the decade. Read more »

8 in 10 Pinoys satisfied with drug war: SWS

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 23 01:41 PM

Eight in 10 Filipinos remained satisfied with the government's anti-narcotics campaign, despite doubts on lawmen's account of the deaths of thousands of drug suspects, according to a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey released Sunday. Read more »

Trust, approval ratings nina Duterte, Robredo tumaas

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 22 10:15 PM

Tumaas pa ang trust at approval ratings nina Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte, Vice President Leni Robredo, at iba pang opisyal ng bansa batay sa pinakahuling survey ng Pulse Asia. Read more »

Earthquake rattles Afghanistan, Pakistan and Indian Kashmir

Reuters
Posted at Dec 20 09:36 PM

The magnitude 6.1 quake was centered in mountainous Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan, at a depth of 210 kilometers, the US Geological Survey said. Read more »

Nearly half of Pinoys expect more prosperous holiday season: survey

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 20 12:55 PM

Forty-eight percent of 1,200 adults surveyed by Pulse Asia from Dec. 3 to 8 believe the holiday will be more prosperous for them and their families, said the pollster.  Read more »

Canadian view of China worsens as row drags into second year

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 12 05:04 AM

Canadians have soured on China, according to a poll released Wednesday, as a diplomatic crisis over tit-for-tat detentions of a Chinese tech executive and two Canadians drags into a second year. Read more »

'Karamihan ng mga Pinoy di nakabibili ng gamot dahil mahal'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 09 09:28 PM

Karamihan ng mga Pilipino ang hindi nakabibili ng mga resetang gamot dahil masyadong mahal ang mga ito, ayon sa Ulat ng Bayan ng Pulse Asia. Read more »

Majority of Filipinos says ties with US more important than China

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Posted at Dec 07 11:41 AM

Majority or 78 percent of Filipinos find the country's ties with the US "more important" is than its relationship with China, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey revealed Saturday.   Read more »

70 percent of Pinoys worried about rising number of Chinese workers in PH: SWS

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Updated as of Dec 05 10:30 PM

Majority of Filipinos are concerned about the rising number of foreign Chinese workers in the country, according to a Social Weather Stations poll. Read more »

Pag-angat ng kalidad ng edukasyon tututukan kasunod ng PISA results: DepEd

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 04 08:31 PM

Patuloy na tututukan ng Department of Education kung paano mapabubuti ang kalidad ng edukasyon kasunod ng pagiging kulelat ng mga estudyanteng Pilipino sa math, science at reading comprehension sa isang assessment na nilahukan ng 79 na bansa. Read more »

Mga mag-aaral na Pinoy, pinakamahina sa 79 bansa sa pag-intindi ng binabasa: PISA

Rose Carmelle Lacuata, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 04 01:48 AM

Pinakamababa sa 79 bansa ang nakuhang marka ng mga Filipinong mag-aaral sa reading comprehension o pag-intindi sa binabasa, base sa resulta ng isang assessment na isinagawa ng Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Read more »