Browsing Manila Standard by Subject "conferences"

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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 ...

    • ASEAN code of conduct completed 

      (Manila Standard, May 21, 2017, on page A1-A2)
      Philippine Ambassador to China Jose Santiago Sta. Romana has welcomed the completion of the draft of the framework of the Code of Conduct for the South China Sea territorial disputes. Sta. Romana lauded the senior officials ...

    • Asean ministers decry Chinese reclamation 

      Ramos-Araneta, Macon (Manila Standard, February 7, 2018, on page A2)
      China’s continued reclamation in the South China Sea has eroded trust among claimants and could raise regional tensions, Southeast Asian foreign ministers said Tuesday. The ministers from the 10-nation Association of ...

    • Asean urged: Stand up to China 

      Araneta, Sandy (Manila Standard, April 27, 2015, on page A2)
      Beijing is moving toward "de facto control" of the South China Sea, the Philippines warned on Sunday as it called on fellow Southeast Asian countries to stand up to their massive neighbor. China's unabated reclamation in ...

    • Australian agency boosts PH agri-fisheries research 

      (Manila Standard, February 26, 2017, on page D2)
      The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research or ACIAR recently held its Country Partnership discussions in Makati City aimed at mapping out the development of a 10-year strategy for the country’s agriculture ...

    • Ban on Benham in force: Rody lets China explorers in, bars other aliens 

      (Manila Standard, February 7, 2018, on page A1-A2)
      President Rodrigo Duterte has banned all foreign scientific exploration on a vast undersea plateau claimed by Manila, his spokesman said Tuesday, now that China has completed its research there. Authorities announced three ...

    • Cebu wants shark specie in CITES list 

      (Manila Standard, September 17, 2016, on page A6)
      Local government officials, coastal community representatives, environmental groups, marine scientists, resort owners, divers, and other tourism industry representatives gathered at the Cebu Provincial Capitol Friday to ...

    • China to stage sea exercises ahead of ruling 

      Araneta, Sandy (Manila Standard, July 4, 2016, on page A1-A2)
      China will hold military drills in the disputed South China Sea, Chinese officials said Sunday, ahead of an international tribunal ruling over Beijing’s maritime claims in the resource-rich area. The drills will be held ...

    • China told: keep out of Spratlys 

      Fabunan, Sara Susanne D. (Manila Standard, June 3, 2018, on page A1-A2)
      President Rodrigo Duterte has asked China to stay away from the Philippine claimed the Spratly Islands, Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano told his pre-departure news conference Friday night. Before he took the four-hour ...

    • Conservation confab mulls fate of bluefin 

      Schroeder, Dominique (Manila Standard, November 15, 2016, on page B4)
      Fishing and shipping nations gather in Portugal this week to consider the fate of the endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna and over-harvested Mediterranean swordfish, two pricey gourmet favorites. While conservationists want ...

    • Defense chiefs want sea disputers resolved 

      Tuyay, Francisco (Manila Standard, March 12, 2018, on page A2)
      Southeast Asia’s top defense officials on Sunday reaffirmed the importance of maintaining and promoting peace and security in the South China Sea. The Philippines’ Armed Forces Chief Rey Leonardo Guerrero underscored the ...

    • Forum tackles endangered tawilis 

      (Manila Standard, March 15, 2019, on page C2)
      The University of Santo Tomas recently staged the Tawilis Summit 2019 in a bid to shed light on the most recent scientific information on Sardinella tawilis which was declared endangered species. Tawilis, a freshwater ...

    • 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 ...

    • Good work by Duterte on climate change 

      La Viña, Tony (Manila Standard, February 4, 2017, on page A5)
      This has been a good week for climate change in the Philippines. Finally, after months of uncertainty, the Philippine government has decided to move forward on the ratification of the Paris Agreement. This was decided in ...

    • Healthy oceans, healthy people (Part 1) 

      Dela Cruz, Jonathan (Manila Standard, December 3, 2018, on page A5)
      It is well that this year the Philippines hosted the 6th Ministerial Forum of the East Asian Seas Congress (EASC) organized by the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA). With one of ...

    • 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. ...

    • Manila Bay watch 

      De la Cruz, Jonathan (Manila Standard, January 16, 2019, on page A4-A5)
      Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Roy Cimatu hosted a Manila Bay stakeholders’ conference to discuss the terms of reference for the proper and responsible (finally) implementation of the 2008 Supreme ...

    • P100-m research fund for PH Rise gets greenlight 

      Araja, Rio N. (Manila Standard, February 12, 2018, on page A1)
      Congress has adopted a resolution to create a P100-million trust fund for scientific research, feasibility studies, marine exploration and procurement of new equipment to beef up research capability in the Philippine Rise. ...

    • PH ignores Chinese names on Benham 

      Barcelo, Vito; Tuyay, Francisco; Ramos-Araneta, Macon (Manila Standard, February 16, 2018, on page A1)
      Malacañang said Thursday it is not alarmed over China’s move to tag five underwater features of Philippine Rise with Chinese names, saying there was no bad faith involved and that bilateral relations remain intact. In a ...

    • 'PH must overturn China's renaming of PH Rise feautres' 

      Ramos-Araneta, Macon (Manila Standard, February 27, 2018, on page A3)
      Senator Bam Aquino on Monday said that the Philippine government must explore all channels to overturn China’s move to name the five undersea features in the Philippine Rise or the Benham Rise violated the country’s sovereign ...