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Agri-aqua forum seen to fetch P500 million in investments
Velma Jane Cubing-Lao of the Iloilo Provincial Planning and Development Office said the two-day forum was very successful as they were able to tie up with big businesses and opened new investments for agricultural products ...
- November 15, 2016
PCCI supports ban on fishing permits for Laguna Lake
The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) is backing the government’s move to stop issuing fishing permits for Laguna Lake. In a statement, the country’s largest business group said it fully supports the ...
- December 31, 2016
Climate change worries fishers
Small fishers in Negros Occidental have expressed concern over climate change. It forces fishes to migrate, thereby affecting their catch, said Abcede Jardinico, chairman of the Negros Occidental Small Fishers Alliance ...
- September 24, 2016
Lake Lanao on conservation mode
Government has mandated to have all generating power plant units running one week before and after the elections. The Climate Prediction Center of the United States- National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration ...
- January 27, 2016
Poor fishermen get solar lamps
Gone are the days when fishermen of this agricultural province have to use pressurized paraffin lamp in their fishing expeditions. The provincial government hast started distributing solar powered lamps to 1,130 fishermen ...
- September 25, 2016
‘Eco-terrorism victimizes butanding’
The New York-based Royal Carribean Cruises Ltd. (RCL) launched last Monday a global partnership with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-Philippines to promote what they chose to support as the most environmentally sustainable ...
- January 27, 2016
Photos show China militarizing Spratly islands
When President Xi Jinping of China visited President Barack Obama at the White House in September last year, he startled many with reassuring words about his intensions for the Spratly Islands, a contested area where the ...
- August 10, 2016
Esperon: China, Philippines in 'friendly' understanding on Scarborough
The Philippines and China have reached a "friendly" understanding allowing Filipinos to fish around a disputed shoal seized by Beijing in 2012, a senior aide to President Rodrigo Duterte said Monday. Duterte negotiated the ...
- November 1, 2016
US environmentalists sue to overturn approval of GMO salmon
U.S. health regulators are facing a lawsuit from a coalition of environmental organizations seeking to overturn the government’s landmark approval of a type of genetically engineered salmon to be farmed for human consumption. ...
- April 4, 2016
Experts see Duterte finding balance between China and US
Incoming Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is not expected to swing to China's side opposite of the United States but will instead place the country in between the two big powers, foreign policy and defense experts said ...
- June 28, 2016