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Govt eyes roadmap for PH eel industry
The government is looking at formulating an eel commodity roadmap to take advantage of the rising global demand for eels, Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said Tuesday.
“Eels, or igat as they are more known locally, ...
- February 25, 2015
Troops deployed to secure PH Rise
The military had deployed hundreds of Marines troopers in the country’s northern frontier to secure and maintain the country’s sovereign rights over Philippine Rise, after China renamed four seamounts and a hill in the ...
- February 17, 2018
Fisherfolk want moratorium on boat, fish registration
The militant fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas on Monday called for a temporary suspension of some of the provisions on the amended Fisheries Code of 1998 or Republic Act 10654, ...
- February 7, 2017
Rare meet for PH, China leaders
President Benigno Aquino III and Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose countries are embroiled in a territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea/South China Sea, will be seated together during the gathering of world ...
- November 13, 2015
‘Importing galunggong will not lower fish prices’
Importing P1.4 billion worth of fish, specifically galunggong (round scad), won’t bring down rising fish prices, Rep. Jose Atienza of Buhay party said on Thursday. “This is a band-aid solution and a poor government ...
- August 24, 2018
Benham on the rise
Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio explained that the Philippines enjoys sovereign rights but does not have sovereignty over the plateau, which is believed to hold huge amounts of minerals and oil, apart ...
- March 15, 2017
Rody hailed for calling out China on WPS
Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario on Friday hailed President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s call for China to temper its behavior in the West Philippine Sea amid reports that Beijing warned a Philippine military ...
- July 18, 2018
Sea code of conduct seen in August
The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations is optimistic that it can complete a working framework for a Code of Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea with Beijing by August, the Foreign Affairs Department ...
- May 3, 2017
China told to explain Scarborough radar plan
Foreign Affairs on Wednesday confirmed it has filed another note verbale against China asking it to explain its plan to install a radar station in the resource-rich Panatag or Scarborough Shoal. Foreign Affairs spokesman ...
- March 23, 2017
'PH can't stop China'
Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. admitted Friday that the Philippines cannot do anything about China’s move to militarize a series of contested artificial islands in the South China Sea. Yasay said the Philippines ...
- December 17, 2016