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    • Offshore mining firms back PBBM climate call 

      Araja, Rio (Manila Standard, May 15, 2023, on page A5)
      A group of deep-sea offshore mining organizations on Sunday backed President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s call to all members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on the urgent issues on worldwide critical minerals ...

    • Oh my GG! Fish import plan triggers protest 

      Cruz, Maricel; Campos, Othel V.; Ramos-Araneta, Macon (Manila Standard, August 23, 2018, on page A1-A2)
      A party-list lawmaker on Wednesday snapped at the Department of Agriculture for its planned importation of around 17,000 metric tons of galunggong (round scads), saying the move was not only an insult to Filipino fishers ...

    • An oil boom? 

      Lopez, Tony (Manila Standard, October 28, 2020, on page B1)
      Share prices of once-dormant listed petroleum exploration companies have doubled and even more than quadrupled in recent days, from their March 2020 lows, thanks to the so-called lifting by President Duterte of the moratorium ...

    • Oil giant owns up to spill 

      Flores, Alena Mae S.; Zurbano, Joel E. (Manila Standard, August 13, 2013, on page A2)
      Petron takes responsibility, apologizes, vows to pay Petron Corp. on Monday took full responsibility for the 500,000 liters of diesel that spilled into the waters of Cavite on Thursday, which has befouled a large area of ...

    • Oil spill 

      Agence France-Pressse (Manila Standard, January 22, 2022, on page B2)
      Cleaning crews work to remove oil from a beach annexed to the summer resort town of Ancon, northern Lima, on January 20, 2022 after a spill which occurred during the offloading process of the Italian-flagged tanker 'Mare ...

    • Oil spill spreads on Manila Bay 

      Zurbano, Joel E.; Flores, Alena Mae S.; Cruz, Maricel V. (Manila Standard, August 10, 2013, on page A1-A2)
      A diesel oil spill spread a large reddish stain over Manila Bay Friday, posing potential health and environmental hazards, authorities said. A fuel tanker is suspected of having dumped half a million liters of diesel into ...

    • Oil spill whodunit 

      Zurbano, Joel E.; Cruz, Maricel V. (Manila Standard, August 11, 2013, on page A1-A2)
      After initially claiming that a tanker caused the oil spill in Manila Bay, the authorities said on Saturday they are no longer sure the tanker was responsible for leaking 500,000 liters of diesel fuel in the busiest waterway ...

    • OMGG! PH seen buying back its own fish catch 

      Araja, Rio; Cruz, Maricel (Manila Standard, August 24, 2018, on page A1-A2)
      A fisheries official said Thursday that a government plan to import galunggong (round scad) could be a case of the country buying back its own fish. “What we will import could come from us too, since the [fish] may have ...

    • On the President's SONA on the West Philippine Sea 

      del Rosario, Albert (Manila Standard, July 30, 2020, on page B1)
      During the President’s State of the Nation Address on July 27, 2020, our President admitted that there was nothing he could do against China’s unlawful incursions into our West Philippine Sea. In his own words, our President ...

    • On the President-elect's statement to uphold the 2016 arbitral ruling 

      Del Rosario, Albert (Manila Standard, May 27, 2022, on page B1)
      We are deeply thankful that President-elect Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. declared what Filipinos would like to hear: that the 2016 Arbitral Ruling is not a claim but already a right, that our sovereignty is “sacred,” and that he ...

    • #OneBoracay beach cleanup today 

      (Manila Standard, April 16, 2018, on page B4)
      Private individuals and corporate members of the Hotel Sales and Marketing Association International, Philippine Tourism and Hospitality Officers and Marketers Association, Tourism Congress of the Philippines, and Philippine ...

    • Only 180 Bora resorts OKd for reopening 

      Araja, Rio N.; Mariano, Nat; Ramos-Araneta, Macon (Manila Standard, September 13, 2018, on page A3)
      Of the 2,300 establishments in Aklan’s Boracay Island, only 180 of which or 7.8 percent have fulfilled the requisites of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and International ...

    • Only big fishermen benefit from gov't. development policy 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Manila Standard, September 18, 1990, on page 14)
      The government should redirect fisheries policies towards greater environmental consideration to ensure the survival of small-scale fishermen, the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) said. Dr. Flor F. ...

    • Orphaned dugong conservation star 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, July 5, 2019, on page A1-A2)
      Cuddles at feeding time are one of many techniques vets in Thailand are using to raise an orphaned baby dugong named Mariam, and which have helped spread interest in ocean conservation in the process. Found stranded on a ...

    • Our misunderstood position in the South China Sea 

      Kapunan, Rod P. (Manila Standard, May 26, 2018, on page A5)
      There are factors affecting our understanding of our claim in the South China Sea. This has deeply divided us such that the US has been using this to create a wedge between this country and China. This stems from our lack ...

    • Our President may need more help 

      Del Rosario, Albert (Manila Standard, June 9, 2018, on page A2)
      There appears to be an urgent need for our President to require a fuller briefing from his people as shown, for instance, by his reactions to developments in the South China Sea and, in particular, the West Philippine Sea. ...

    • Our weak stand on China 

      Del Rosario, Alejandro (Manila Standard, June 4, 2018, on page A4-A5)
      Opposition lawmakers are questioning the Philippines’ anemic stand against China’s military buildup in the West Philippine Sea. It appears to the concerned solons that the government’s foreign policy and national security ...

    • Over 100 dead or missing after vessel capsizes 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, October 10, 2021, on page 3A)
      More than 100 people are believed dead or missing in the sinking of a makeshift vessel on the Congo river, provincial authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Saturday. Fifty-one bodies had been recovered by ...

    • Over 162k of waste hauled from Pasig River 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Manila Standard, May 10, 2019, on page A3)
      The Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission hauled 162,390 kilograms of waste (5,413 sacks of garbage), which were pushed by the high tide in Manila Bay into the Pasig River, during a series of massive clean-up operations ...

    • Overfishing threatens tuna supply 

      Ramos-Araneta, Macon (Manila Standard, September 15, 2012, on page A3)
      Senator Loren Legarda on Friday expressed alarm over the declining tuna stocks worldwide due to overfishing. Noting the Red List of Threatened Species of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which revealed ...