Browsing The Manila Times by Subject "Governments"

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    • Group bats for more PH aquaculture sites 

      Lagare, Jordeene B. (The Manila Times, January 26, 2021, on page B2)
      Advocacy Group Tugon Kabuhayan is appealing to the government to ease the permitting process to develop more aquaculture areas in the Philippines. “We are producing aquaculture resources regularly. There’s no stabilizing ...

    • Groups call for action on poaching of sea turtles 

      (The Manila Times, May 27, 2014, on page B8)
      A group of 20 civil society organizations has come together to call on the government to implement the full force of the law on the government to implement the full force of the law on the poaching of 500 dead and live sea ...

    • Haribon: Kaliwa dam a biodiversity threat 

      Amante-Gamboa, Kitty (The Manila Times, November 22, 2018, on page B4)
      According to the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool curated by BirdLife International, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, ...

    • Honor exploration deal with China 

      Maralit, Kristina (The Manila Times, March 9, 2022, on page A3)
      President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated that the country must honor its commitment to conduct a joint exploration with China at the disputed Recto Bank to prevent a heated conflict between the two countries. In his weekly ...

    • How Julian Felipe Reef brouhaha impacts on CPP-NPA-NDF insurgency 

      Samonte, Mauro Gia (The Manila Times, April 17, 2021, on page A5-A6)
      A number of speculations has surfaced from the continuing controversy on the Julian Felipe Reef in the South China Sea. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana appears the most persistent in hammering on the issue in the media ...

    • How to defend Panatag Shoal 

      Saludo, Ricardo (The Manila Times, March 23, 2017, on page A1-A5)
      Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, who contributed immensely to our winning our arbitration suit against China’s “nine-dash line” maritime claim, wants President Rodrigo Duterte to shut up. Justice Carpio asked ...

    • Impeach Duterte, Palace dares critics 

      Valente, Catherine S. (The Manila Times, June 28, 2019, on page A1-A2)
      Malacañang on Thursday challenged critics of President Rodrigo Duterte to file an impeachment complaint if they believe that he committed an impeachable offense when he agreed to allow the Chinese to fish in the country’s ...

    • Inconsistencies 

      Contreras, Antonio (The Manila Times, September 22, 2020, on page A4)
      It is in this tale of fish kills and egrets that the role of political biases in engendering inconsistencies become more pointed, because it also afflicts the critics of the President. Duterte critics, for their part, lost ...

    • Increasing the income of farmers and fisherfolk 

      Dar, William (The Manila Times, July 25, 2019, on page B5)
      I listened very carefully to the State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, and I commend his full support to leveling up the country’s agriculture sector by investing in programs to increase the ...

    • Is creation of a Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources a good idea? 

      Adriano, Fermin D. (The Manila Times, December 24, 2020, on page B5)
      A number of stakeholders in the fishery sector had been calling for the establishment of a Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DFAR), separate from the Department of Agriculture (DA). Its proponents cite two ...

    • Joint oil search with China legal - Palace 

      Valente, Catherine S. (The Manila Times, November 21, 2018, on page 1-2)
      Malacañang on Tuesday assured the public that the Philippines’ proposed joint oil and gas exploration with China in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea) will stand legal scrutiny.Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo made ...

    • Laguna de Bay in desperate need of rehab 

      Mariano, Dan (The Manila Times, September 24, 2010, on page A4)
      Sunday marks the first anniversary of Typhoon Ondoy, known elsewhere as Ketsana. In just six hours or so that day, Metro Manila and nearby provinces experienced a month’s worth of rainfall. Flashfloods inundated large ...

    • Law enforcers deployed to protect 'Ludong' 

      Domingo, Leander C. (The Manila Times, November 4, 2015, on page A7)
      As part of the government’s conservation effort, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in the region has deployed law enforcers to protect the most expensive fresh water species. BFAR Director Milagros Morales ...

    • Legal battle looms over sea exploration 

      Panti, Llanesca (The Manila Times, August 31, 2018, on page A1-A2)
      Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Cayetano on Thursday said the Duterte administration’s plan for a joint exploration and development deal with China over South China Sea (West Philippine Sea) resources would face tough legal ...

    • Limahong and the South China Sea 

      Jimenez, Jose B. III (The Manila Times, August 8, 2019, on page A5-A6)
      Print, broadcast and social media have been headlining and trending issues on the South China Sea. We read about fishing vessels being rammed, scuttled and sunk, watch about islands being occupied, and react to photos of ...

    • LLDA sanctions 18 bay polluters 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, February 20, 2019, on page A8)
      The Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) on Tuesday ordered the closure of five establishments found to have been polluting Manila Bay. The agency also issued notices of violation and ex-parte orders to a dozen ...

    • Managing Boracay as ancestral land and as protected landscape 

      Contreras, Antonio (The Manila Times, June 7, 2018, on page A4-A5)
      The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) through Undersecretary David Erro, perhaps in its desire to please the President who wants to convert the entire Boracay island into a land reform area, has boldly announced that ...

    • Mangrove restoration to grow 50,000 propagules 

      Kritz, Ben (The Manila Times, March 23, 2017, on page E4)
      Cement and building materials manufacturer Republic Cement has launched a three-year program to restore the mangrove forest in the coastal areas of Malolos, Bulacan, the company announced. The project is a partnership among ...

    • The Manila Bay challenge 

      Robles, Jojo (The Manila Times, January 11, 2019, on page A1-A6)
      I know President Rodrigo Duterte is still understandably ecstatic about how he rehabilitated Boracay Island after shutting down the tourist attraction for six months last year. But rehabilitating Manila Bay, which he has ...

    • Manila Bay is an opportunity 

      Ongpin, Ma.Isabel (The Manila Times, January 18, 2019, on page A4)
      I am very impressed by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources as well as the Department of the Interior and Local Government and the Department of Tourism joining hands to tackle the rehabilitation of Manila ...