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Mayors have key role in Bay rehabilitation
The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) called a meeting last Monday of mayors of Metro Manila and other towns and cities in the provinces around Manila Bay as part of the total effort to clean it up after ...
- February 15, 2019
Manila Bay clean-up: Gargantuan and historic endeavor
In a word, Manila Bay stinks. Decades-long inflow of waste and untreated discharges into the Bay has resulted in one of the most polluted waters in the world. (Manila is also unlucky in having lazy mayors who have done ...
- January 30, 2019
More naval patrols at Recto Bank eyed
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana is mulling increased naval patrols at Recto (Reed) Bank in the West Philippine Sea after the “collision” of a Chinese vessel and a Philippine fishing boat. Lorenzana admitted that the ...
- June 15, 2019
Study: Corals still thriving in Manila Bay; three things needed to bring murky bay to life
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has released the results of the vulnerability assessment for the Manila Bay rehabilitation project, which identified areas where the government and other stakeholders ...
- June 26, 2019
A formula for the Philippines, China, and Vietnam in the West Philippine Sea-South China Sea and other participants
At some point now or sooner than later, the claimants in the South China Sea/West Philippine Sea will have to sit down and agree on a seismic and oil exploration program to be followed by a definitive oil drilling and ...
- April 21, 2019
Duterte creates Manila Bay Task Force
President Duterte has ordered the creation of the Manila Bay Task Force that will expedite the rehabilitation, restoration, and conservation of the coastal and marine ecosystem of the Manila Bay. In Administrative Order ...
- February 22, 2019
All hands on deck to save the Manila Bay!
ANGEL THOUGHTS ‘The only things you can take with you when you go on your final journey are the things packed in your heart. So start packing!’ The US side of the majestic Niagara Falls has frozen over, thanks to a snowstorm. ...
- January 27, 2019
Manila Bay reclamation opposed
Residents of Baseco compound in Tondo, along with fisherfolk and environmental groups, marched to Manila City Hall Monday morning to protest the four Manila Bay reclamation projects that have allegedly been approved by ...
- February 19, 2019
PH exclusive economic zone open to Chinses fishermen - Duterte
The Philippine government is inclined to “tolerate” the fishing of Chinese vessels in the country’s territorial waters and does not consider such gesture as treason. President Duterte has invoked the country’s friendly ...
- June 26, 2019
Locsin thanks Vietnam for 'act of mercy and decency'
Malacañang said the government is now determining the extent of liabilities in the ramming of a Filipino fishing boat by a Chinese vessel to know what legal remedy is available to bring justice to the Filipino fishermen. ...
- June 19, 2019