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    • Million-trees foundation boosts watershed rehab 

      (Manila Standard, March 8, 2021, on page A3)
      A private sector group has created the Million Trees Foundation to perpetuate and sustain the annual million trees challenge (AMTC), a five-year project seeking the rehabilitation of seven critical watersheds. With the MTF ...

    • DENR to conduct dredging activity in Marikina City 

      (Manila Standard, February 15, 2021, on page A3)
      In the wake of the devastating floods that plunged Marikina City and several other cities of Metro Manila underwater in November last year, the Task Force Build Back Better announced that it will begin dredging activities ...

    • Fishers' settlement areas bill approved 

      Cruz, Maricel (Manila Standard, February 24, 2021, on page A3)
      The House of Representative has approved on third and final reading a bill mandating the establishment of settlement areas for fishermen throughout the country. The bill's author, Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez, welcomed ...

    • Beijing warns off US warship in SCS 

      Agence France-Pressse (Manila Standard, February 6, 2021, on page A7)
      China on Friday warned off a US warship sailing near contested islands in the South China Sea, Beijing said, the first such encounter made public since the inauguration of President Joe Biden. The USS John s. McCain "broke ...

    • Lawmen seize giant clams worth $3.3m 

      (Manila Standard, March 6, 2021, on page A1)
      Philippine authorities have seized illegally harvested giant clam shells worth $3.3 million as smugglers turn to the endangered creatures as substitute for the illicit ivory trade. In one of the biggest operations of its ...

    • The restored white beach 

      (Manila Standard, August 17, 2019, on page A4)
      We join the government in raising a forbidding first against those who have no manners in poking fun at the "anti-littering" ordinance on the restored Boracay's erstwhile spotless white beach. The malicious abasement of ...

    • Del Rosario disputes Palace stand on WPS row 

      (Manila Standard, September 21, 2019, on page A3)
      Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario said the Palace statement that bringing the country's maritime disputes with China before the United Nations is a futile exercise. Del Rosario made the statement in ...

    • China warships no longer straying into Sibutu-AFP 

      Tuyay, Francisco (Manila Standard, August 26, 2019, on page A1)
      Beijing may have ordered its navy not to stay into Philippines waters after the recent string of sightings of Chinese warships passing unannounced through the Sibutu Strait triggered a series of protests from Manila, a ...

    • Filipino boat chased by Sinos; AFP sets probe 

      Cruz, Maricel V.; Ramos-Araneta, Macon (Manila Standard, April 10, 2021, on page A1)
      The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said Friday it was investigating a report that Chinese military boats pursued a civilian vessel carrying Filipino journalists in the disputed South China Sea. A television crew ...

    • Binay promises to solve country's clean and potable water woes 

      Zurbano, Joel E. (Manila Standard, February 25, 2022, on page A3)
      Senatorial candidate Jejomar Binay on Thursday said if he wins, he will push a measure to solve the country’s problem on clean and potable water. The former vice president said more public and private partnerships are ...

    • Peru: Environmental emergency after oil spill 

      Agence France-Pressse (Manila Standard, January 24, 2022, on page B2)
      Peru declared an environmental emergency Saturday (Sunday, Manila time) to battle an oil spill caused by freak waves from a volcanic eruption in the South Pacific. The stunningly powerful eruption last Saturday of an ...

    • 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 ...

    • P509-m agri-border control facility to rise in Subic 

      (Manila Standard, November 30, 2021, on page A3)
      The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the establishment of a control facility for fresh and frozen agri-fishery commodities entering ...

    • Villar eyes more legislation for PH fish hatcheries 

      (Manila Standard, January 27, 2022, on page A3)
      Senator Cynthia A. Villar is pushing for the establishment of more legislation to beef up the country’s fish hatcheries. Villar, chairperson of Senate committee on Agriculture, Food and Agrarian Reform, on Monday, led the ...

    • Xi vows China won’t be a ‘bully,’ seek hegemony 

      (Manila Standard, November 23, 2021, on page A1)
      China's President Xi Jinping told leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that Beijing would not “bully” its smaller regional neighbors, two weeks after Chinese coast guard vessels fired water cannons ...

    • Rody 'abhors' Ayungin attack 

      Barcelo, Vito; Requejo, Rey E.; Cruz, Maricel V. (Manila Standard, November 23, 2021, on page A1)
      President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday condemned the latest flare-up in the West Philippine Sea after Chinese coast guard ships fired water cannons at Filipino boats. Duterte made the remarks at the ASEAN-China summit hosted ...

    • Agriculture dips 1.7% on reduced livestock output 

      Campos, Othel (Manila Standard, January 27, 2022, on page B4)
      Agriculture and fisheries production dropped 1.7 percent in 2021 from the previous year, as the sector contended with livestock diseases and the devastation left by Typhoon Odette, data from the Philippine Statistics ...

    • Chinese CG blocks PH ship on supply mission 

      Blancaflor, MJ (Manila Standard, September 24, 2019, on page A2)
      Malacañang on Monday said it is “objectionable” that a Chinese Coast Guard ship had blocked local vessels on a resupply mission to the Philippine Navy’s BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal west of Palawan. The Chinese ship ...

    • Sarangani Bay home to dolphin, whale colonies 

      (Manila Standard, September 17, 2019, on page C2)
      A recent monitoring of the Sarangani Bay has found around 270 dolphins and whales thriving in the area. Marine biologists and divers from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Region 12 and its partner agencies’ ...

    • DENR Bataan, Mariveles ink beach cleanup pact 

      Gunio, Butch (Manila Standard, November 29, 2019, on page B4)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources Bataan and the municipal government of Mariveles have agreed to remove and dispose solid waste material deposits in the Aguawan River that leads to the popular Aguawan ...