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Boat-ramming incident: Manila to hale Chinese to court
The Philippine government would hale to court the captain and crew of the Chinese ship that rammed a Filipino fishing boat near Recto (Reed) Bank if the Chinese government failed to impose sanctions against them, Malacañang ...
- July 9, 2019
AFP Chief lied on new 'illegal structures' at Union Banks
Or perhaps Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana was just fed the wrong information or just ignorant of the Spratly Islands dispute, when he claimed last April 1 that the Chinese had built new illegal ...
- April 12, 2021
BFAR buying 100 patrol boats
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is buying nearly 100 new patrol boats to protect the country’s fisheries, an official said on Monday. The BFAR, an agency under the Department of Agriculture, currently ...
- June 23, 2015
$200-M WB funding eyed for fisheries
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is seeking World Bank funding for its $200-million Fisheries and Coastal Resiliency (FishCoRe) project that aims to improve the country’s fishery production. In a statement on Monday, ...
- June 2, 2020
PH fisheries code need amendments
In June 2014, the European Union (EU) slapped a “yellow card” warning to the Philippines because of the latter’s response to “illegal, unreported and unregulated” fishing. The EU warned that if the Philippines continue to ...
- January 27, 2015
Food security and agriculture R&D
And the latest GFSI report giving a low score of 6 for GDP per capita clearly shows that majority of households may not have enough purchasing power for food, including those of smallholder farmer and fishers (ironically). ...
- October 26, 2018
Beijing : finish sea code in 3 years
A rule book to settle disputes in the hotly contested South China Sea should be finished in three years, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday, insisting his nation does not seek “hegemony or expansion.” Li’s comments ...
- October 14, 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
Kapitan Kress pays grand salute to fishermen as modern-day heroes
JGO Ventures Corporation, the authorized distributor of Kress Elektrowerkzeuge in the Philippines has anchored its heart on supporting Filipino community causes. And together with Kress, the company pays homage to the valor ...
- July 1, 2021
Trillanes: Aquino and Del Rosario lost Panatag Shoal to China
I AM publishing in full, for the sake of truth and as material for historians, the secret aide memoire that Sen. Antonio Trillanes 4th wrote in August 2012 on his activities as President Aquino’s special envoy to China to ...
- November 12, 2018