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    • The ASEAN and South China Sea disputes 

      Mendoza, Diana (BusinessWorld, April 28, 2015, on page S1/4)
      This week began with the 26th Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit and Foreign Ministers Meeting. Malaysia is this year's ASEAN chair taking over after Myanmar. Included in the ASEAN agenda were: the ASEAN ...
    • China reef ‘reclamation’ seen 

      Delavin, Imee Charlee C. (BusinessWorld, May 16, 2014, on page S1/12)
      The Philippines yesterday released photographs to back its claim that China was reclaiming land on a disputed reef in the South China Sea in an apparent effort to build an airstrip. Manila warned on Wednesday that China ...
    • Commitment to settle sea dispute expected 

      Gonzales, Noemi M. (BusinessWorld, April 25, 2013, on page S1/11)
      President Benigno S. C. Aquino III yesterday left for Brunei to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit where he will push for an early conclusion of a rules-based system to settle conflicting ...
    • Fish tagging program starts 

      (BusinessWorld, January 16, 2008, on page S1/3)
      Up to 2,400 species of small pelagic fishes like galunggong, tunsoy, tawiles,hasa-hasa, and matangbaka in the waters of Palawan and Manila Bay are targeted for tagging and coding under a joint research program that will ...
    • How dams built by China starve the Mekong River Delta of vital sediment 

      Reuters (BusinessWorld, December 19, 2022, on page S1/3)
      Standing on the bank of the Mekong River, Tran Van Cung can see his rice farm wash away before his very eyes. The paddy’s edge is crumbling into the delta. Just 15 years ago, Southeast Asia’s longest river carried some 143 ...
    • Thailand cracks down on illegal fishing as fears grow over possible EU export ban 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, July 2, 2015, on page S1/5)
      A belated Thai clampdown on illegal fishing is forcing unlicensed vessels ashore, threatening to paralyze a key industry as the kingdom desperately tries to avoid a European Union ban on exports worth $1 billion a year. ...