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US-PH deal to help conserve biodiversity
The US government, through the US Embassy in the Philippines’ United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has partnered with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to launch a new ...
- March 9, 2018
Miriam: US must pay Tubbataha
The United States government is responsible for the destruction of parts of the Tubbataha Reef near Palawan and is therefore obligated to make reparations for such destruction. Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago, an international ...
- February 14, 2013
Carpio disputes allowing Chinese to fish in PH's exclusive economic zone
Supreme Court (SC) Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio cautioned President Duterte on Wednesday, June 26, that allowing Chinese fishermen to fish in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the West Philippine ...
- June 27, 2019
10,000 volunteers join coastal cleanup drive
Some 10,000 participants responded to the call to help protect marine environment and actively took part in the annual International Coastal Cleanup Day along the Manila Bay shoreline. The volunteers, armed with gloves, ...
- September 20, 2015
Villar scolds BFAR at Senate
At the inquiry of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food, BFAR officials were grilled by its committee chairman, Villar, for supposedly snubbing the panel’s requests for reports on the implementation of the Republic ...
- March 20, 2018
Boracay is back, business is booming – Tourism chief
The government’s rehabilitation efforts in Boracay are bearing fruit as the island is now back to its pristine condition and businesses are starting to prosper –a year after it was closed to tourists, the Department of ...
- April 27, 2019
Fish festival grill bids for guinness record
Around 60 tons of freshwater fishes will be grilled today to celebrate the "Malangsi Festival" (Malangsi is a Pangasinan term for fish) and bid to snatch the title of "longest barbecue" as Guinness World Record. The municipal ...
- April 4, 2014
Oyster pearl farming pushed
Producing wing blister oyster pearls is a promising undertaking for Leyte fishermen. Gov. Leopoldo Dominico L. Petilla said the provincial government had made initial field trials and research on wing oyster pearl production ...
- March 23, 2019
Joint gas exploration puts China under PH control – Malacañang
Malacañang said that China would have to comply to Philippine laws in case the joint exploration in Service Contract (SC) 57 pushes through as the said area is under the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the Philippines. ...
- March 6, 2018
West PH Sea will be occupied, not armed – Duterte
No weapon system will be installed by the government in its planned occupation of the islands located in the West Philippine Sea, President Duterte declared on Monday. The President tried to allay the concerns of China ...
- April 12, 2017