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China, PH, agree to 'prudent' cooperation on joint sea exploration
China and the Philippines said Wednesday they will cautiously proceed with discussions on joint oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea, further reversing years of tensions over their competing claims to the region.The ...
- March 23, 2018
Amended fisheries law betters prod'n-Villar
The Philippines is seen to export more fish because of the amended Fisheries Code, according to a legislator. Exports of fish products, specifically to European countries, generated P9.4 billion in 2013, the Bureau of ...
- March 1, 2016
Living without destructive plastic (Continued from July 8, 2021)
Birds are dying by the thousands from eating plastic items. Penguins, albatrosses and many sea gulls have died as a result of eating floating or submerged plastics. Thousands of dolphins, sharks, whales and turtles are ...
- July 9, 2021
Phl eyeing marine base on island near Taiwan
The Philippines will start building a marine base next month on its northernmost uninhabited island, near Taiwan, to boost defense arrangements and discourage poachers from its fishing grounds, a military spokesman said ...
- March 23, 2018
Water at Japan's new Tsukiji fish market contaminated
Tokyo officials said Friday they had found levels of benzene 130 times above the recommended amount in groundwater at the new site for the country’s famed Tsukiji fish market. The high levels of contamination were detected ...
- April 7, 2018
Agriculture output surges 2.87% in Q3
The country’s agricultural production increased by 2.87 percent in the third quarter of the year, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Wednesday, surpassing the government’s growth goal of 2 to 2.5 percent. ...
- November 7, 2019
Boracay one of world’s ‘greatest places of 2022’
This island paradise in the northern tip of Aklan province has been named one of the “World’s Greatest Places of 2022” by TIME Magazine. TIME Magazine solicited nominations from its international network of correspondents ...
- July 16, 2022
Palace: Filing protest over China ships up to DFA
It’s up to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to officially protest the presence of about 120 Chinese vessels particularly on the side of Tizard Bank that is within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in ...
- May 26, 2021
Increased fish production
The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center/Aquaculture Department (AQD) (SEAFDEC/AQD) based in southern Iloilo is pushing for the increase of the country’s fishery production through rigorous research and development ...
- July 23, 2018
Leaders agree to self-restraint in disputed sea
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and China have agreed to exercise self-restraint and avoid actions that may further complicate the situation in the South China Sea, amid Beijing’s continued reclamation ...
- November 15, 2018