Search
Now showing items 41-50 of 101
Pistay Dayat promotes sea ecosystem
For the people of Pangasinan, merry-making is also a unique opportunity to pitch environmental protection concerns. This is what they do at Pistay Dayat, a traditional annual summertime festival held recently at Lingayen ...
- June 4, 2017
Vietnam upgrades areas in disputed sea-analyst
As China continues to transform disputed territory in the South China Sea into features capable of sustaining air and naval bases, Vietnam is also upgrading areas it occupies. Images taken by DigitalGlobe satellites in ...
- December 19, 2017
Sino ships seen in WPS: despite Beijing's assurance no new expansion in disputed waters
A party-list lawmaker on Tuesday urged the government to file a diplomatic protest against China over Chinese ships spotted near Pag-asa Island in the West Philippine Sea.
At the same time, Magdalo Party-List Rep. Gary ...
- August 16, 2017
Fishers still gaffed by poverty-group
Despite the Fisheries Code of 1998 that was meant to empower them, fishermen are still trapped in the net of extreme poverty, the Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas said on the 19th anniversary of the ...
- February 25, 2017
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
Rice to riches: Vietnam's shrimp farmers fish for fortunes
The Mekong Delta, long renowned as the “rice bowl of Vietnam,” is now also home to a multi-billion-dollar shrimp industry and burgeoning numbers of farmers are building fortunes from the small crustaceans. The shrimp bonanza ...
- August 10, 2017
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
Carpio warns of China zone over Scarborough
A Magistrative on Sunday warned the government on China’s reported plan to install a radar station in the disputed Scarborough Shoal. Senior Justice Antonio Carpio said the installation of an environmental monitoring station ...
- March 20, 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