Browsing Manila Standard by Subject "agreements"

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    • Act to transform climate 

      La Viña, Dean Tony (Manila Standard, June 6, 2015, on page A9)
      Last Wednesday, at the Kaminzimmer Conference Hall of the Bonn World Conference Center, the agreement on Climate Transformation 2015 or ACT 2015 hosted a side event where in our paper entitled "Getting specific on the 2015 ...

    • Aliping rejects watershed rehab 

      See, Dexter A. (Manila Standard, January 30, 2015, on page B7)
      A lawmaker accused of cutting trees and making excavations inside the Sto. Tomas watershed turned down demands by forestry and environment officials to repair the damages he allegedly caused in the area, a lawyer for the ...

    • China urged to answer for ecological damage 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, July 3, 2015, on page A4)
      Malacañang urged China on Thursday to take responsibility and answer for the impact of its reclamation activities in disputed waters in the West Philippine Sea in line with its agreement with the Association of Southeast ...

    • DFA mulls over filing complaint over Panatag 

      Cruz, Maricel V.; Requejo, Rey E. (Manila Standard, November 28, 2018, on page A2)
      Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Tuesday raised the possibility of bringing before the United Nations the case of the China Coast Guard personnel driving away the crew of Reporter’s Notebook from the Panatag ...

    • DFA: China wants to be above the law 

      Barcelo, Vito (Manila Standard, March 1, 2016, on page A4)
      The Philippines has been praised by nations around the world, because it is the first country to have dared (under Art. 287 and Annex VII of UNCLOS) to take China to the court. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin ...

    • EDC contributing P10m for Boracay rehabilitation 

      Flores, Alena Mae S. (Manila Standard, February 3, 2019, on page C2)
      Geothermal producer Energy Development Corp. is investing P10 million in the rehabilitation of its adopted wetland in Barangay Balabag here over a three-year period. “Under our memorandum of agreement with the DENR [Department ...

    • From Marrakech, hope for climate change 

      La Viña, Tony (Manila Standard, November 22, 2016, on page A4-A5)
      Last Friday, November 18, the 22nd session of the Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change closed in Marrakech, Morocco. Two weeks of intense negotiations produced credible outcomes ...

    • Islands ready for climate agreement 

      (Manila Standard, April 22, 2016, on page B6)
      With their very existence under threat from climate change, the world's island states come to the United Nations on Friday not only to sign the Paris climate deal but to be first in line to make sure it goes into force. ...

    • Miriam hits complacency on sea dispute 

      Araneta, Macon R.; Araneta, Sandy (Manila Standard, March 4, 2016, on page A1-A2)
      Presidential candidate Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago on Thursday slammed the administration of President Benigno Aquino III for being complacent on the West Philippine Sea dispute, and for being confident that the ...

    • 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 ...

    • PH insists on sea code, China calls for dialog 

      Barcelo, Vito (Manila Standard, March 2, 2016, on page A5)
      Despite China’s call for a peaceful dialogue to resolve the territorial dispute in the South China Sea, the Philippines will continue to push for the legally binding Code of Conduct on the South China Sea between the Asean ...

    • PH, China firm hold talks on joint oil hunt in SC Sea 

      Cruz, Maricel V. (Manila Standard, March 2, 2018, on page A2-A1)
      The Philippines said Thursday it is in talks with a Chinese state firm for joint South China Sea energy resource exploration and extraction, in a proposed deal described by President Rodrigo Duterte as akin to “co-ownership” ...

    • PH, Indonesia sign sea border pact 

      Pañares, Joyce Pangco; Fabunan, Sara Susanne D. (Manila Standard, May 24, 2014, on page 1-2)
      Indonesia and the Philippines on Friday signed three agreements, including a historic document on the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone boundaries of both countries in the Mindanao Sea and in the Celebes Sea. ...

    • Rape on the Rise 

      Del Rosario, Alejandro (Manila Standard, February 16, 2018, on page A4-A5)
      We are not talking of rape of the carnal kind here. The title of this column deals with the most recent violation committed by China on Philippine territorial sovereignty. Not content with its encroachment into the Philippine ...

    • Rody: No soldier will set out for suicide mission vs China 

      Barcelo, Vito (Manila Standard, June 7, 2018, on page A2)
      President Rodrigo Duterte said Wednesday he was not aware of the incident in which the Chinese navy harassed Filipino troops who were on a mission to bring supplies to the Filipino soldiers guarding a rusting ship at the ...