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Underwater plants inspire better solar cells
Researchers in South Korea have developed an artificial leaf that mimics underwater photosynthesis of aquatic plants to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, a study published in Nature Communications said. The significance ...
- January 26, 2017
‘China likely to build on Scarborough Shoal’
Manila expects China to try to build on a reef off the coast of the Philippines, the Defense secretary said on Tuesday, adding this would be “unacceptable” in the flashpoint waterway. In an interview with Agence France-Presse, ...
- February 8, 2017
Japan's 'Tuna King' wins auction with $636,000 bid
Japan’s self-styled “Tuna King” has done it again—paying more than $600,000 for a single fish. Sushi entrepreneur Kiyoshi Kimura paid top price at the first auction of the new year at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market on Thursday, ...
- January 6, 2017
Duterte repeats China war threat
President Rodrigo Duterte has repeated before Russian television China’s threat of war if the Philippines insisted on drilling for oil in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) in Beijing. In an interview with Moscow-based ...
- May 24, 2017
BMI upbeat on South China Sea exploration
Improving relations between China and the Philippines have bolstered prospects for a joint exploration in the South China Sea despite still-unresolved maritime disputes, BMI Research said. “We believe improving bilateral ...
- September 14, 2017
Trump offers to 'mediate' on sea row
US President Donald Trump told his Vietnamese counterpart Sunday he is ready to help resolve the dispute in the resource-rich South China Sea, which Beijing claims most of. “If I can help mediate or arbitrate, please let ...
- November 13, 2017
UN sounds alarm on lethal tilapia virus
A highly contagious disease is spreading among farmed and wild tilapia, one of the world’s most important fish for human consumption, the United Nations warns, adding that though not a human health risk, Tilapia Lake Virus ...
- June 2, 2017
Agriculture's water problems can become too big.
It may even boil down to the following: store rainwater, by increasing the absorptive capacity of watersheds through reforestation and building more small water storage (impounding) and catchment systems; expand both the ...
- June 16, 2017
Why is China so pissed by SND's Spratly visit?
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana’s visit to Pagasa Island in the municipality of Kalayaan in the Spratlys last week posed no threat to China of any kind. No troops were landed, neither was any offensive military structure ...
- April 26, 2017
PH must zealously guard its sovereign interests in Benham Rise
The military intelligence report that a Chinese research vessel has been seen prowling or exploring the waters of the national territory in Benham Rise off Luzon’s eastern coast is alarming and disturbing. Beijing has ...
- March 14, 2017