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    • Task force ends rehabilitation of Boracay Is. 

      Araja, Rio N. (Manila Standard, June 23, 2022, on page A3)
      Days before President Rodrigo Duterte steps down from power, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-led task force has completed the rehabilitation and management of the world-renowned Boracay Island ...

    • Fish canners hit DTI plan to impose SRP 

      Campos, Othel V. (Manila Standard, June 23, 2022, on page A3)
      Sardines canners have scored the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for crafting a proposed department administrative order (DAO) on products under price monitor, citing the lack of legal foundation and enabling law ...

    • Vietnam halts scuba diving off popular island to protect coral 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, June 29, 2022, on page B3)
      Vietnam has banned swimming and scuba diving at a popular central tourist spot in an attempt to revive its damaged coral reef, officials said Monday. The communist nation boasts more than 3,200 kilometers of coastline with ...

    • Agri law seeks more financing for farmers, fisherfolks 

      Ramos-Araneta, Macon (Manila Standard, August 3, 2022, on page A4)
      Sen. Cynthia A. Villar said RA 11901 or the “Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development Financing Enhancement Act of 2022” is now a law. Villar filed the bill which seeks to expand financing for farmers and fisherfolk. ...

    • Navy defense ship now ready for deployment 

      (Manila Standard, July 8, 2022, on page B2)
      The Philippine Navy’s offshore patrol vessel BRP Andres Bonifacio (PS-17) is now ready to perform its territorial defense functions while assigned to the Puerto Princesa, Palawan-based Western Command (Wescom). “She is ...

    • Think tank: Assert PH claim to WPS 

      (Manila Standard, July 6, 2022, on page A3)
      A think tank organization urges the Philippine government to adopt a stronger stance on the South China Sea territorial debate by asserting the 2016 Permanent Court of Arbitration Ruling that dismissed Beijing’s so-called ...

    • 'They're everywhere:' microplastics in oceans, air, and human bodies 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, July 4, 2022, on page B4)
      From ocean depths to mountain peaks, humans have littered the planet with tiny shards of plastic. We have even absorbed these microplastics into our bodies—with uncertain implications. Images of plastic pollution have ...

    • China, PH urged to 'properly handle' SCS territorial disputes 

      (Manila Standard, July 2, 2022, on page A3)
      China and the Philippines can improve international relations by properly handling ongoing disputes in the South China Sea, Chinese vice-president Wang Qishan said. Wang, who was attending the inauguration ceremony of ...

    • Congress OKs bills on marine hatcheries in PH 

      Ramos-Araneta, Macon (Manila Standard, July 4, 2022, on page A3)
      Congress passed into law 11 local bills for the establishment of multi-species marine hatcheries in various locations nationwide. The bills were sponsored by Senator Cynthia Villar during the 18th Congress. Villar, the ...

    • Dead rivers: The cost of Bangladesh's garment-driven growth 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, June 22, 2022, on page A7)
      Bangladeshi ferryman Kalu Molla began working on the Buriganga river before the patchwork of slums on its banks gave way to garment factories — and before its waters turned pitch black. The 52-year-old has constant cough, ...

    • China builds SCS rescue, maritime station 

      Requejo, Rey E. (Manila Standard, July 25, 2022, on page A1)
      China has built permanent stations for its rescue and maritime forces on its artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea. Citing reports from state broadcaster China Central Television, South China Morning Post said ...

    • Maynilad conducts river clean-up in Muntinlupa 

      Araja, Rio N. (Manila Standard, July 29, 2022, on page A4)
      West zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services Inc. has recently held a series of river clean-up drives in Muntinlupa City to help improve the quality of water in tributaries that flow into Laguna Lake.

    • Isabela fish farm reels in success with Landbank support 

      (Manila Standard, July 22, 2022, on page A3)
      When Cagayan Valley, one of the country’s largest tilapia-producing regions, faced a region-wide shortage of tilapia fingerlings in 1993, business graduate Arnel Santiago decided to establish his own fish hatchery to help ...

    • PH drops oil, gas talks with China—DFA 

      (Manila Standard, June 24, 2022, on page A1)
      The Philippines has abandoned joint oil exploration talks with China amid tensions in the West Philippine Sea, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said. Locsin, in his speech during the 124th anniversary of the ...

    • Rody handling of WPS issue, oil tanks hailed 

      Gulle, Jimbo (Manila Standard, June 25, 2022, on page A1)
      President Rodrigo Duterte handled the maritime dispute in the West Philippine Sea “carefully and decisively,” Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said on Friday, a day after the outgoing Chief Executive ...

    • UN conference sees blitz of pledges to protect ailing oceans 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, June 29, 2022, on page B2)
      A major UN conference on how to restore the faltering health of global oceans kicked off in Lisbon this week with a flurry of promises to expand marine protected areas, ban deep-sea mining, and combat illegal fishing. UN ...

    • Marcos' intel chief to focus on West PH Sea 

      (Manila Standard, June 24, 2022, on page A4)
      The National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) will focus in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) amid the Philippines’ ongoing territorial dispute with China. “We have to view everything and integrate, harmonize our efforts. ...

    • 'World's biggest' freshwater fish in Mekong 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, June 22, 2022, on page A6)
      A fisherman on the Mekong river in Cambodia has hooked the biggest freshwater fish ever recorded, scientists said – a 300-kilogram stingray. The giant freshwater stingray, which measured four meters (13 feet) from snout ...

    • DOE asks incoming gov't to pursue WPS oil projects 

      Flores, Alena Mae S. (Manila Standard, June 27, 2022, on page B4)
      Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi said over the weekend the incoming administration will decide on oil and gas exploration activities in the West Philippine Sea following the termination of joint venture talks with China. “I ...

    • China ready to talk with Marcos on oil, gas exploration in WPS 

      (Manila Standard, June 26, 2022, on page 1)
      China said it is prepared to revive stalled negotiations on joint oil exploration and development with the Philippines under the incoming administration of President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. “China stands ready to work ...