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    • Reef row: US plot in its 're-pivot' to Asia 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, April 7, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      US President Joe Biden couldn’t have picked more anti-China officials than US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. The two were at the head of former President Obama’s so-called ...

    • Region 3 farmers, fishers receive DA assistance 

      Hernandez, Jose (The Manila Times, June 23, 2023, on page A7)
      Farmers and fisherfolk in Central Luzon seem to be consistently enjoying assistance from the Department of Agriculture (DA) amid rising prices of commodities by directly linking them to buyers through Kadiwa trade fairs ...

    • Regional cooperation in marine environment protection 

      Pimentel, Brenda V. (The Manila Times, January 22, 2019, on page B7)
      The subject is timely as the rehabilitation of the waters of Manila Bay gains Presidential attention — a call we made in this column several months back. In Singapore last week, the focus shifted to the regional level at ...

    • Rehab of Boracay on track 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, November 29, 2019, on page A7)
      The total rehabilitation of Boracay is on track to be completed in May 2020, The Boracay Inter- Agency Task Force (BIATF) said on Thursday. In statement, Natividad Bernardino, general manager of the BIA Rehabilitation ...

    • Rehab set for watershed area in Isabela 

      Domingo, Leander C. (The Manila Times, February 1, 2018, on page B5)
      Located within the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park, the Divilacan watershed in the forest-rich province of Isabela is one of the 29 priority sites in the national government’s Sustainable Integrated Area Development ...

    • Release of rare turtle in Quirino postponed 

      Domingo, Leander C. (The Manila Times, August 22, 2013, on page A7)
      The release of a very rare and regarded as endangered soft-shelled turtle to its habitat in the Addalam River here was postponed for tourists to have a good look of its broad head, short snout and frog-like facial features. ...

    • Remember Quemoy and Matsu in war-gaming the South China Sea 

      (The Manila Times, April 23, 2019, on page A4)
      The language that has lately characterized statements from both sides of the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea) points to the need to consider the consequences of words before they are spoken. Philippine Foreign Affairs ...

    • Residents near river urged to relocate 

      Sumangil, Franz (The Manila Times, November 17, 2021, on page A7)
      The Mines and Geosciences Bureau in Region 12 (MGB-12) has recommended the relocation of residents living near Kalaja River in General Santos City due to the possible occurrence of flash floods and debris flow. The ...

    • Residents urged to evacuate due to oil spill 

      Cancel, Fatima Ceilo B.; Cueto, Francis Earl A.; Valente, Catherine S. (The Manila Times, June 24, 2013, on page A3)
      Residents of Manila living along the Pasig River were advised to evacuate their homes on Sunday as authorities investigate an oil spill from a warehouse in Santa Ana, Manila. Outgoing Mayor Alfredo Lim of Manila on Sunday ...

    • Revealed: Marcos’ secret operations to take over entire Spratly archipelago 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto (The Manila Times, August 13, 2018, on page A1-A4)
      The strongman Ferdinand Marcos ordered secret military operations in 1970 to 1971, and in 1978 to take over the entire now hotly disputed Spratly group of islands in the South China Sea. Marcos apparently decided to undertake ...

    • Revealed: The crux of our SCS dispute — natural gas 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, October 5, 2020, on page A1-A11)
      The flag-waving by the Yellows, the likes of United States toady Albert del Rosario and Vietnamese-linked Antonio Carpio, claiming that they are noble patriots upholding Philippine sovereignty against an expansionist China ...

    • Rice to riches: Vietnam’s farmer gamble of shrimp 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, August 10, 2017, on page B4)
      The Mekong Delta, long renowned as the “rice bowl of Vietnam”, is now also home to a multi-billion-dollar shrimp industry and burgeoning numbers of farmers are building fortunes from the small crustaceans. The shrimp bonanza ...

    • Rice-fish farming system boosts profit in Region 2 

      Domingo, Leander (The Manila Times, November 4, 2019, on page A7)
      A rice-fish farming technology demonstration project here by the Cagayan Valley (Region 2) Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has shown that it could significantly boost farm productivity and income of farmers. ...

    • River rid of 168K metric tons of trash 

      Silverio, Frederick (The Manila Times, April 17, 2021, on page A7)
      San Miguel Corp. (SMC) seems on track to more than double its daily dredging of silt and trash for its P1-billion Tullahan-Tinajeros river system clean-up project from 600 metric tons per day to 1,500 metric tons daily for ...

    • Rivers and forests make up a community 

      Banacia, Regelyn (The Manila Times, August 18, 2015, on page B7)
      In 2014, Haribon Foundation re-launched a program called Haribon Travel that brings awareness on biodiversity conservation initiatives to travelers. The program is classified into two namely the “Green Travel” that is ...

    • Robin hopeful PH-China oil talks will continue 

      Ismael, Javier Jose (The Manila Times, June 29, 2022, on page A3)
      Senator-elect Robinhood Ferdinand "Robin" Padilla is hopeful that negotiations between the Philippines and China on the joint oil and gas exploration in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) will soon resume and whatever differences ...

    • Robredo rejects joint exploration with China 

      Panti, Llanesca T. (The Manila Times, June 22, 2018, on page A3)
      Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo has rejected President Rodrigo Duterte’s proposal to jointly explore the West Philippine Sea (WPS) with China. In a television interview with veteran journalist Tina Monzon Palma ...

    • Rotary gives mangroves a fighting chance 

      (The Manila Times, August 23, 2021, on page B7)
      A thousand mangrove seedlings were planted by volunteers on the shoreline of Aning in Barangay Pahanocoy, Bacolod City. This is the third mangrove planting by the Rotary Club of Bacolod-Marapara as part of its "Project ...

    • Russia abandons Snake Island 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, July 2, 2022, on page B9)
      Russian troops have abandoned their positions on a captured Ukrainian island, a major setback to their invasion effort that weakens their blockade of Ukraine's ports, defense officials said on Thursday. The news from the ...

    • S. Asia most dangerous for sea turtles - study 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, September 30, 2011, on page A6)
      The waters around India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are home to the world’s most endangered sea turtles, according to a study released Thursday aimed at setting a blueprint for global conservation. While it was well known ...