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US military ships may patrol disputed sea
The Pentagon is considering sending US military aircraft and ships to assert freedom of navigation around rapidly growing Chinese-made artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea, a US official said on Tuesday. US ...
- May 14, 2015
Palace tosses Boracay issue to 3 agencies
The Department of Trade and Industry has proposed a phased rehabilitation of Boracay Island, even as Malacañang has asked the DTI and two more agencies to detail and justify their recommendation to close the top tourist ...
- April 3, 2018
PCAARRD: Agriculture, aquatic and natural resources innovations
In the early 70’s, Philippine agriculture was hampered by the absence of adoptable technologies that would benefit our farmers. Seeing this predicament, Arturo Tanco, then minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, recommended ...
- June 22, 2018
Why invest more in R&D
From what I have observed in the country, much of the R&D efforts have not resulted in leveling up Philippine agriculture, which still remains largely unmechanized, suffering from low productivity, and has very little value ...
- January 26, 2018
Crackdown starts on fish pen guns: DENR, LLDA team runs after armed men manning Laguna de Bay fishery structures
The government on Friday began its crackdown on unlicensed firearms allegedly used by guards manning fish pens in Laguna de Bay. Environment Undersecretary Arturo Valdez, who heads the National Anti-Environmental Crime ...
- February 11, 2017
Climate change warming Asian waters, altering monsoon
The all-important monsoon forecast becomes a national priority, with more than 70 percent of India's 1.25 billion citizens engaged in agriculture and relying on weather predictions to decide when they will sow their seeds ...
- July 7, 2016
DPWH: coordinate Boracay road works
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is pushing for stronger coordination to be able to complete the road works by the time world-famous Boracay Island will reopen to tourists on October 26. For instance, ...
- August 2, 2018
₱460,000 dried seahorses seized in Bacolod port
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) Negros Occidental seized about 15.2 kilos of dried seahorses worth P460,000 at the Banago port here Friday. PCG provincial head Capt. Ludovico Librilla Jr. said they were informed by the ...
- March 28, 2021
Vietnam calls for self-restraint in disputed sea
Vietnam and Australia called on Wednesday for “self-restraint” in the South China Sea and warned against the unilateral use of force, an obvious reference to China’s increasingly aggressive presence that has stirred concerns ...
- March 20, 2015
Roro ship hits fishing boat off Bacolod, fisherman injured
A fisherman was injured after a roll-on, roll-off (RoRo) ship hit his fishing boat off the coast of this city. Nonito Carlos of Barangay Miranda, Pontevedra, Negros Occidental sustained injuries on the body. He already ...
- September 30, 2019