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Project backed by WB loan targets poor fisherfolk
Malacañang on Thursday said the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) had approved an P11.2-billion, seven-year project that seeks to lift 350,000 fisherfolk in 24 coastal provinces out of poverty while ensuring ...
- November 25, 2022
Rampant illegal fishing in Quezon waters alarms group
Rampant destructive fishing methods were again reported in the bays of Tayabas and Lamon in Quezon province, prompting an environmental group to urge the local government to curb the illegal activities. Jay Lim, project ...
- June 4, 2022
China to start building on reclaimed land reclaimed from disputed sea
First the horizontal development, now the vertical development. The foreign ministry on Tuesday said China would complete within days its land reclamation projects on disputed areas in the South China Sea in an apparent ...
- June 17, 2015
PH's bangus, shrimps get world's attention
Eight Philippine exporters racked up $211 million (P10.54 billion) worth of orders and inquiries at a trade fair in Dubai on November, according to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR). The Department of ...
- December 29, 2016
Unaccountable China
Since late 2013, China has been engaged in the frenzied creation of artificial islands and the militarization of the South China Sea. This amounts to an alarming quest for control over a strategically crucial corridor ...
- December 21, 2015
DU30 talking to Beijing envoy about West Philippine Sea incursion
President Rodrigo Duterte plans to talk to the Chinese ambassador about China’s latest incursion in the West Philippine Sea, Malacañang said on Tuesday, after Manila filed a diplomatic protest over the presence of more ...
- March 24, 2021
DENR 'white sand' haul alarms Cebu officials
Officials of Cebu province are looking into the reported extraction of dolomite rocks that were pulverized into “white sand” to cover and beautify a small part of the Manila Bay shoreline under a much-criticized P349-million ...
- September 5, 2020
Fishermen enslaved in Palawan rescued
A fish trader and his recruiter are facing charges of human trafficking after they allegedly forced 78 fishermen from Bohol and Cebu to work without pay. Ramil Noval and Yulo “Boy” Plecerda, both from Lapu-Lapu City, were ...
- January 23, 2015
The Pope, farmers and fisherfolk
The Pope's message during his Papal visit might well be the ray of hope needed today by poor farmers and fisherfolk: “Allow yourselves to be surprised by God. Don’t be afraid of surprises. They shake the ground beneath our ...
- January 20, 2015
DENR official: ‘Impossible’ for Manila Bay ‘white sand’ to cause fish kill
An official of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Thursday said it was “impossible” for the artificial white sand or crushed dolomite dumped on the shoreline of Manila Bay to have caused the ...
- September 18, 2020