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The fight to rehabilitate Philippine coral reefs
Through my foggy mask, I make out my dive buddy giving the go signal. I back-roll, in-gloriously, into the turquoise waters in northern Batangas in the Philippines. Scant seconds pass as I find my bearings, but soon the ...
- February 11, 2010
Agreeing to disagree
As expected, nothing came out of the well-scripted, one-on-one meeting between President Rodrigo Duterte and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, on the issue of the ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The ...
- September 2, 2019
Panatag Shoal
To remove the mistrust and suspicion that is obviously being exploited by opposition and their US handlers, maybe an agreement can be sorted out to convert the Panatag Shoal into a free zone where, as it was before, the ...
- April 1, 2017
Locsin backs out of ban on survey ship
Malacañang on Tuesday backed the order of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. banning Chinese survey ships in the country’s waters, only to withdraw his directive hours later. In a tweet, Locsin said the country ...
- August 14, 2019
Tilapia ice cream draws crowd in Canada
The Philippine’s “tilapia ice cream” was featured in Salon International de l’Agroalimentaire or SIAL Canada 2017 on May 2 to 4 in Toronto, Canada, drawing a crowd of interested exhibit attendees. Developed by Central Luzon ...
- May 7, 2017
ASEAN code of conduct completed
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 ...
- May 21, 2017
Fight environmental terrorism — Congress
A lawmaker has called on Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu to intensify the government’s campaign against wildlife trafficking in the country, which she described as a form of environmental terrorism. Occidental Mindoro ...
- July 17, 2017
War games set amid sea row
The United States and the Philippines will double the size of their annual war games this month, with some exercises to be staged close to a South China Sea flashpoint. The 10-day exercises between the long-time allies ...
- April 8, 2015
Benham gets renamed; Beijing sidesteps threat
President Rodrigo Duterte has signed an executive order officially renaming Benham Rise to “Philippine Rise” to use the resource-rich territory off the coast of Aurora province. He signed Executive Order 25 on May 16 ...
- May 23, 2017
Good work by Duterte on climate change
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 ...
- February 4, 2017