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    • Work with China but stick to our claims, envoy advises 

      Torres, Estrella (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 15, 2016, on page A6)
      Although neither China nor the Philippines may be ready to give up their respective claims, it may be possible to work out cooperative agreements on fishing, private oil and gas exploration, and avoiding conflict due to ...

    • Workers needed to clean Iloilo oil spill 

      Yap, Tara (Manila Bulletin, March 1, 2014, on page 13)
      There is a need to hire additional workers to complete the cleanup operations of the typhoon-related oil spill in Estancia, Iloilo. Dr. Rex Sadaba, manager of the oil spill response team of UP Visayas and Iloilo provincial ...

    • Workers save turtles from grisly death 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, December 2, 2015, on page B8)
      Railway workers in Japan have devised an ingenious scheme to prevent daredevil turtles from meeting a grisly end - and delaying trains - while crossing train tracks. The slow-moving reptiles in western Nara prefecture were ...

    • Working together for a World Without Waste 

      (Manila Standard, November 27, 2018, on page C1)
      Coca-Cola Philippines is bringing its World Without Waste vision where its matter most- in every household and community. By, supporting organizations and their endeavors to reduce the impact of waste on their respective ...

    • Workshop generates research proposals 

      Fernandez, Lyncen M. (The Daily Guardian, October 20, 2007, on page 7)
      The National Institute of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology (NIBMB) of UP Visayas conducted a "National Symposium on Fisheries and Aquatic Biotechnology" in collaboration with the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development ...

    • Workshop on artemia (brine shrimp) 

      (Manila Bulletin, April 17, 1988, on page 11)
      An invitation to hatchery and fishpond operators, researchers, fishery teachers and other aquaculture entrepreneurs !!!!

    • World 'swamped' by plastic waste — UN chief 

      UN Daily News (The Manila Times, June 6, 2018, on page B6)
      The world must unite to “beat plastic pollution” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message for World Environment Day on Tuesday. In his message marking the day on 5 June, Guterres said that the ...

    • World aquaculture prod'n dominated by Asian countries 

      Fernandez, Rudy A. (The Philippine Star, December 9, 1998, on page 23)
      Asia continues to dominate aquaculture production, thus contributing considerably to the sustenance of food security in the region. As it is today, aquaculture, or fishfarming, now offers opportunities as the "last frontier" ...

    • World Bank evaluating $200-M PHL fisheries loan 

      Ibañez, Jenina P. (BusinessWorld, December 17, 2021, on page S1/5)
      The World Bank is considering a proposed $200-million loan for Philippine fisheries by February, according to project documentation posted by the bank Wednesday. The seven-year project aims to improve fisheries management ...

    • World Bank to boost funding for climate change projects 

      (Panay News, April 11, 2016, on page B1)
      The plan - which follows the landmark UN climate conference that yielded the Paris Agreement in December - calls for funding projects that would add 30 gigawatts of renewable energy to the global grid, which would power ...

    • World cannot afford farming subsidies 

      Agence France-presse (Manila Bulletin, September 8, 2012, on page B-3)
      Agricultural subsidies around the world are a waste of hundreds of billions of dollars and unaffordable in the wake of the global financial crisis, New Zealand's prime minister said Friday. Speaking at a business forum in ...

    • World Environment Day: Let’s stop plastic pollution 

      Villanueva, Rhodina; Macairan, Evelyn (The Philippine Star, June 6, 2018, on page 1-6)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has urged the public to be more responsible in managing garbage since waste, particularly plastic, can be devastating for marine biodiversity. Plastics are ...

    • World experts hold meet on shrimp, fish diseases 

      (Manila Bulletin, February 8, 2002, on page G-3)
      Fifty of the world's top researchers in shrimp and fish viruses met here recently and tackled the disease problems afflicting aquaculture species. The scientific conference was organized by Southeast Asian Fisheries ...

    • World famous Iloilo kapis being revived 

      (The Manila Times, November 15, 1999, on page 5)
      The long-gone window pane oyster industry in this province is now being revived through the collaboration of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center-Aquaculture Department (Seafdec-AQD) and the Panay Gulf Development ...

    • World must address oceans crisis - UN 

      Xinhua (The Manila Times, June 3, 2021, on page B8)
      The world must harness "clear, transformative and actionable solutions" to address the ocean crisis, the president of the UN General Assembly said on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) as he opened a meeting to generate momentum ...

    • World must protect seas from climate crisis 

      (Daily Tribune, February 20, 2022, on page B16)
      The planet is facing the triple crises of climate disruption, biodiversity loss and pollution, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres told the recent One Ocean Summit, warning that “the ocean shoulders much ...

    • World Ocean Week held in Xiamen to promote cooperation in all marine matters 

      (The Philippine Star, November 15, 2016, on page 9)
      Cooperation with regions along the 21st Century maritime silk road, especially members of the ASEAN, was the focused of the 2016 world ocean week in Xiamen, which took place from Nov 4 to 10 in the coastal city in east ...

    • World opinion, naval powers will shame China in reef grab 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, March 31, 2021, on page 7)
      China’s embassy in Manila denies invasion by its maritime militia of the Philippines’ Julian Felipe Reef. Supposedly the 220 Chinese vessels are fishers sheltering from storm. The embassy even disavows the very existence ...

    • World sea piracy at lowest level since 2008 

      Associated Press (AP) (Malaya, October 23, 2012, on page A8)
      A maritime watchdog says global sea piracy has fallen to its lowest level since 2008 as threats from Somalia ease. The International Maritime Bureau said Monday that 233 attacks were recorded worldwide in the first none ...

    • World shrimp industry faces uncertain future 

      Fernandez, Rudy A. (The Philippine Star, January 4, 1998, on page 18)
      The high value and short gestation period of shrimps made them attractive to investors in the Philippines and other shrimp-producing nations starting in the late 1970s up to the later 1980s. "This was the period of the ...