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    • DFA: China gives 'no-build' assurance in sea row talks 

      Ramos, Marlon; Pazzibugan, Dona Z. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 17, 2018, on page A8)
      China has assured the Philippines that it would refrain from conducting any activities on uninhabited areas in the West Philippine Sea, Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said on Friday. Cayetano said the country had ...

    • DFA: Du30's call to discuss Hague ruling 

      Ramos, Marlon (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 24, 2019, on page A3)
      t’s up to President Duterte if he would actually raise the international arbitral ruling recognizing the Philippines’ sovereignty in the West Philippines Sea in his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week, ...

    • Diners grilling restos over seafood sourcing 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 22, 2010, on page A20)
      Distance doesn’t seem to matter. No matter how far they are from the Gulf, waiters and waitresses throughout the nation are getting the same grilling by diners. Is your seafood clean? After months of watching news coverage ...

    • Dinner or disaster: 1st octopus farm stirs ethics debate 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 4, 2022, on page A12)
      Spurred on by soaring demand for seafood, a Spanish company plans to open the first commercial octopus farm next year but as scientists discover more about the enigmatic animals some warn it could be an ethical and ...

    • Diplomacy: PH’s only option vs China 

      Malinao, Alito (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 23, 2018, on page A8)
      The suggestion by some well-meaning sectors for the government to file another case against China in the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, this time for China’s harassment of Filipino fishermen and for the massive ...

    • Disaster validates Tubbataha Protected Area Act 

      Madrigal, Jamby (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 14, 2013, on page A16)
      As the author of the Tubbataha Protected Area Act, the more strongly I am convinced that, sad to say, the tragic damage to the reef validates the law Congress enacted. For all sides, in all incidents, whether it concerns ...

    • Disease threatens Sorsogon aquaculture industry 

      Escandor, Juan Jr.; Arevalo, Gil Francis (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 19, 2004, on page B2)
      The deadly white spot syndrome virus has infected prawn farms here, threatening to wipe out Sorsogon's aquaculture industry. The WSSV was first reported in 1993 in China and Japan and the disease has spread to the other ...

    • Displaced fishermen can hardly cope with shoal conflict 

      Macatuno, Allan (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 26, 2016, on page A8)
      Fisherman Mario Forones has been spending most of his time tending to his stall at the fish market here. Forones, 55, used to be an operator of three fishing boats that ventured out into the disputed Scarborough Shoal. ...

    • Distinguishing the 'real' Filipino fish 

      Salcedo, Margaux (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 30, 2019, on page B4)
      The DGF Essay Writing Awards—the country’s first and most prestigious food writing contest inspired by Philippine culinary writing icon Doreen Gamboa Fernandez—is now open for entries for this year’s competition. The theme ...

    • Dive yacht sinks near Tubbataha; 28 rescued, 4 still missing 

      Mangosing, Frances (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 1, 2023, on page A4)
      Four persons went missing while 28 others were rescued after a dive yacht sank in the vicinity of Tubbataha Reef in Palawan on Sunday morning, the Philippine Coast Guard said. The PCG has dispatched one of its biggest ...

    • Divers find whale shark with fins and tail sliced off 

      Lesaba, Marrah Erika; Papa, Alcuin (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 17, 2010, on page A1-A20)
      A dead whale shark without fins and a tail was buried on the shores of Tingloy Island on Tuesday morning, inscribing a sad epilogue to a Manila conference of 50 nations for the protection of the endangered fish species. ...

    • Divers haul ghost nets from submarine wreck in Greece's Ionian Sea 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 3, 2020, on page A14)
      Divers removed half a ton of abandoned fishing gear covering a British submarine that sank off the Greek island of Kefalonia in 1941 as well as other wrecks in an effort to protect the area’s loggerhead sea turtles, dolphins ...

    • Diving is like life—you have to enjoy each moment 

      Prieto-Valdes, Tessa (Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 27, 2020, on page C8)
      Underwater is truly a different world. Like floating in space, scuba diving into the deep and mysterious ocean is an intense adrenaline rush, because of the peculiar sense of weightlessness and absence of gravity. With an ...

    • DLSU-SHORE, WWF Phils. team up for coral reef research 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 26, 2019, on page C2)
      DE La Salle University Br. Alfred Shields FSC Ocean Research Center (DLSUSHORE) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines embarked on consecutive reef research trips last April and May of this year. Dubbed ...

    • DND parroting China ‘unusual’ 

      Ramos, Marlon (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 25, 2018, on page A4)
      Carpio said Lorenzana’s remarks just showed the “lack of understanding” of the territorial dispute between the Philippines and China over the West Philippine Sea, waters within the country’s 370-kilometer exclusive economic ...

    • Do more to enforce ruling 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 17, 2018, on page A8)
      Citing loans and investments from China, the President has set aside the ruling, while his Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano has declined to show the “50 to 100” protests that he claimed the Philippines has lodged ...

    • DOE to review SC ruling on WPS joint exploration 

      Adonis, Meg (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 24, 2023, on page A4)
      The DOE will review the implications of a Supreme Court ruling invalidating a 2005 tripartite agreement signed by the government with China and Vietnam on joint exploration in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). The Department ...

    • DOH raises red tide alert in 4 provinces 

      Uy, Jocelyn (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 1, 2015, on page A7)
      The Department of Health (DOH) has advised the public to skip shellfish and shrimp fry harvested from five coastal areas in the Visayas and Mindanao due to the continued presence of the poisonous red tide toxin. The health ...

    • DOJ: Gem-Ver fishermen seeking P12M compensation 

      Pazzibugan, Dona Z. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 18, 2020, on page A4)
      Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said his department had submitted to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) a report on the estimated P12 million being sought by the owner and crew members of the FB Gem-Ver, as ...

    • Dolomite beach stays closed until 2022 

      Lalu, Gabriel Pabico (Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 4, 2021, on page A4)
      The Manila Bay’s dolomite beach will remain closed to public for now as the Department of Environment and Natural Resources continues to finish the rehabilitation project in the area.