Gen Z Filipinos, the loneliest youths in Southeast Asia, are struggling. This is how and why

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Clinical counselor Violeta Bautista claimed that parents who do not travel overseas often leave their children in the provinces to function in cities and then return to see them occasionally.

” I’ve met some younger people who talk about a sense of never being supported, … of longing for network, because they grew up not having kids to link them, to take care of their cultural requirements”.

MENTAL AND PHYSICAL Effects

Loneliness can have a devastating effect. And those affected are getting younger.

” When loneliness gets to be your accompanying experience day in and day out, when it keeps you from studying well, working in the office, if it makes you stay away from social relations to the point ( where ) you find yourself unable to experience satisfaction, … then it’s no longer normal human loneliness”, said Bautista.

” It does move towards major depressive disorder”.

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Azizulhasni’s disqualification at final Games a blow to Malaysia’s dreams of gold

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SAINT QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France: Being disqualified for a technical problem in an Olympic event is horrible for any athlete, but Malaysia’s Azizulhasni Awang had the added stress that the Paris Games are his past and he carried his country’s hope of lastly winning their first platinum award.

Awang, a double Olympic medalist in the track racing competition of Keirin, who gained speed behind a bicycle before a three-lap jump, saw his hopes of winning a second medal thwarted in rounded one on August 10 because he was excluded for overtaking the derny before it pulled off the trail.

The 36-year-old, nicknamed the “pocket rocket”, looked distraught as he sat down next to the track. He did not speak to reporters, but his Australian coach John Beasley did not dispute the disqualification.

He claimed that if Azizulhasni had arrived a few centimeters early, he might have been able to argue.

” We must face it, it happened, we have to deal with it, that is life. It’s bad to leave like this. All we can do is move forward. He knows the rule, he know he broke it, he is struggling to process that”, said Beasly.

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IN FOCUS: It’s the halfway mark of China’s roadmap to lead the world in AI by 2030. How is it faring?

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Open supply is where the source code is freely available, allowing people to apply, change, and deliver it. In comparison, closed source is where access to the source code is restricted, preventing additional modifications and additions.

Both have their virtues. Open-source models allow for the use, development, and learning of them by other scientists and designers. However, the amazing character of closed-source versions reduces the risks of use or abuse, and also allowing for more crowdfunding opportunities, reports have stated.

However, both even have their disadvantages. Open-source models frequently rely on volunteers, but closed-source models offer limited power and customization due to restrictions on the teaching data and domestic architecture.

According to some analysts, the current environment in China is divided between t players who favor the open-source approach and those who favor closed-source. CNA was unable to locate any information about the local situation as a whole.

At the current World AI Conference in Shanghai, Mr Robin Li, chairman and CEO of Baidu, argued that the open-source design may be outdated. He claimed that Baidu’s Wenxin 4.0 design, which was more affordable, provided better performance and resilience than open-source designs, and produced better results.

However, this view is contested within the Chinese Artificial area. According to Mr. Fu Sheng, chairman and CEO of Cheetah Mobile and president of Orion Starry Sky, “open-source communities had finally emerge over closed-source types.”

He argued that open-source designs were more useful, saying:” More businesses and companies do not need expensive closed-source 100 billion feature designs, 10 billion feature types are enough”.

Late in April, Alibaba and Baidu were among the first Chinese tech companies to add large language models ( LLMs) from Meta’s open-source LLaMA family to their cloud computing platforms. Immediately, Tencent followed match.

The discussion even revolves around translation and uniqueness. Chinese tech fairy 01 AI was in dispute last year over using LLaMA designs without making it clear. The business apologized and claimed it had no intention of concealing the Artificial model’s source.

There are possible drawbacks, according to experts, even though using existing models to build new ones is a common practice. &nbsp,

It might be dangerous if businesses are unable to comprehend or change these concepts, according to Associate Professor Wai Kin Kong of the Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU) College of Computing and Data Science.

Prof. Li noted that the local community frequently lacks the vision to make designs that bring together the community to solve challenging programming problems, despite Chinese AI players actively using open-source versions and creating their own from scratch.

A champion of the open-source motion, he emphasised the importance of adhering to open-source rules and contributing back to the community.

” We do n’t need 100 large models, a few well-contributed and shared models would be ideal”, Prof Li said.

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Commentary: Wildlife and weapons trafficking converge in Southeast Asia

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CRIMINAL Consolidation

The integration of the two judicial economies is what makes this case special.

Criminal integration is the&nbsp, overlapping occurrence&nbsp, of two or more unlawful economy in ways that enable each another. This may take&nbsp, many forms, such as when one group diversifies illegal sources of income, two groups barter one illegal good for another or several groups share sneaking infrastructure, methods and service providers. &nbsp,

Convergence gives legal actors more power, contributing to the harm done by illegal economies, including the loss of biodiversity and armed violence. In Southeast Asia, hands trafficking appears to merge most frequently with&nbsp, drug trafficking&nbsp, and smuggling illicit goods such as exempt cigarettes, energy, alcohol or wheat.

When weapon converge with animals prostitution, it is usually to&nbsp, help hunting, which is itself devastating. However, there are only a couple instances of illegal firearms and animals being directly traded in the area.

This may be due in part to the fact that different illicit goods, such as drugs and hidden goods like cigarettes, are much more fungible, easier to obtain, and offer lower profit margins.

In a volatile, competitive market environment, firearms are more likely to lean toward drugs and other forms of illegal as a form of coercion and protection. Most people who work in the wild do not likely experience comparable business pressure.

So, Indonesia and the Philippines ‘ combined efforts to reunite two of their key criminal markets, North Maluku, are unusual.

Bird prostitution was again a common practice in national areas, according to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. Since the 1970s, there have been government crackdowns on the internet, e-commerce sites, mail services, and online payment systems. &nbsp,

Over 1, 000 ads for threatened animal species were found in 600 personal Facebook groups according to a 2022 Global Initiative research. &nbsp,

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Restoring law and order in Bangladesh a priority, says caretaker government

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Hindus constitute about 8 per cent of Muslim-majority Bangladesh’s 170 million people and have generally mostly supported Hasina’s Awami League group, which identifies while generally enlightenment. The Bangladeshi Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council wrote to Yunus on Friday, pleading with him to stand up for the minority, claiming that thousandsContinue Reading

‘Powerful’ explosion hits ship at China port

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BEIJING: A “powerful explosion” ripped through a container ship on Friday ( Aug 9 ) in eastern China ‘s&nbsp, Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, one of the world’s busiest. No injuries or deaths were soon brought on by the explosion. A game of lights spewed dirt high into the air into the ship’sContinue Reading