Browsing Panay News by Place "Japan"

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    • 14 SUCs get virtual libraries 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA); PN (Panay News, July 14, 2019, on page 3-10)
      Fourteen state universities and colleges (SUCs) in the country received digital library services from the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center/Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD), which is celebrating its 46th ...

    • AFP: Chinese 'fishermen' used vs PH in two ways 

      Mangosing, Frances; Lazaro, Jacob (Panay News, September 16, 2023, on page 9-15)
      When they are not directly supporting the China Coast Guard (CCG) in blocking supplies to a key Philippine outpost in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), the Chinese maritime militia (CMM) posing as fishermen are harming the ...

    • Baliao lauds Japan’s 50 years of support for SEAFDEC/AQD 

      PN (Panay News, October 22, 2018, on page B3)
      The financial support of the Government of Japan to SEAFDEC /AQD (Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center/ Aquaculture Department) for the last 45 years is very rewarding and gratifying. This was the gist of the message ...

    • China not ceding an inch of territory-general 

      Julian, Sammy (Panay News, May 19, 2014, on page 11)
      China "will not give an inch" with regards to its territorial dispute with several Southeast Asian Countries, including the Philippines, over the South China Sea and with Japan over islands in East China Sea. To those who ...

    • DENR chief pushes for int'l collab on wetlands conservation 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA); PN (Panay News, October 13, 2019, on page 5)
      Participants from various countries visited the Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation Area (NOCWCA) – the seventh Ramsar site of the Philippines located in southern Negros – as part of the 2nd East Asian-Australasian ...

    • Family of missing Negrense from sunken ship not giving up hope 

      Bañaga, Dominique Gabriel (Panay News, September 5, 2020, on page 2)
      The family of a missing Negrense sailor is refusing to give up hope of finding him alive. His ship sank off the coast of Japan earlier this week. Margarita Payas, mother of 32-year-old Andren, said her son’s wife Justine ...

    • Foreigners receiving marine fish hatchery training at SEAFDEC 

      (Panay News, July 18, 2018, on page B1-B6)
      Participants from Southeast Asian and African countries are undergoing a marine fish hatchery training at the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center – Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC-AOD) in Tigbauan, Iloilo. “The ...

    • Gab on East Asia seas conservation seen to gather 1T 

      Sornito, Ime (Panay News, November 20, 2018, on page 6)
      An international multi-sector meeting that aims to discuss challenges in marine conservation in East Asia is expected to gather some 1,000 attendees at the Iloilo Convention Center in Mandurriao district. The 2018 East ...

    • Grouper rakes $500M in HK 

      Portal, Tadz (Panay News, August 19, 2003, on page 9)
      A fast growing demand of the fish grouper (Epinephelus), locally known as inid or lapulapu, is presently being observe in the international market. This prompted the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center - Aquaculture ...

    • Ibajay to vie for Asia's largest mangrove 

      Aguirre, Jun Ariolo (Panay News, June 30, 2010, on page 4)
      Ibajay town here will compete for the record of having the largest mangrove tree in Asia. Ibajay Mayor Lulu Miraflores said a group of Japanese experts arrived recently to document the mangrove found in the boundary of ...

    • Iloilo Declaration presses marine pollution reduction 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Panay News, November 28, 2018, on page 2)
      ILOILO City – East Asian countries will pledge to reduce marine pollution. It is one of the key items in the “Iloilo Ministerial Declaration on East Asian Region, Moving as One to Secure Healthy Oceans, People and Economies”, ...

    • In South Africa, great white sharks threatened 

      Associated Press (AP) (Panay News, August 24, 2016, on page 13)
      On the edge of a boat off this coastal village, Michael Rutzen stubs his cigarette into a soda can and stares pensively out to sea. He has free-dived with great white sharks for nearly 20 years, and he never known it to ...

    • Indonesia to Japan: invest in disputed islands 

      Reuters (Panay News, January 11, 2020, on page 11)
      Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo on Friday asked Japan to step up investment in fisheries and energy in some of its South China Sea islands following a stand-off with China in waters that China claims in the area. Widodo ...

    • Japan to restart commercial whale hunts 

      British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Panay News, December 27, 2018, on page 6)
      Japan said it will restart commercial whaling in July in a move that is likely to draw international criticism. It said it would withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the body tasked with whale conservation. ...

    • Japanese city on alert for deadly blowfish 

      British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Panay News, January 17, 2018, on page 6)
      A Japanese city has broadcast emergency warnings to prevent people consuming blowfish, after potentially deadly portions were mistakenly sold. A local supermarket in Gamagori city sold five packets of fugu fish without ...

    • Kapis shell industry - can the downfall be reversed? 

      Portal, Tadz (Panay News, February 19, 2002, on page 9)
      Kapis shell once made a record of ranking in US$35 million and placed 5th among the major fishery export products of the Philippines. That was 1991. Today, the number of kapis are dwindling and worst, they have totally ...

    • Livestock ship with 42 crew sinks off Japan coast 

      Associated Press (AP) (Panay News, September 4, 2020, on page 9)
      Japanese rescuers were searching Thursday for a livestock ship that a survivor said sank with 42 crew members aboard during rough weather off a southern Japanese island, the coast guard said.

    • PH is 'Asia's leading dive destination' again - DOT 

      Cabato, Luisa (Panay News, September 8, 2023, on page 9-15)
      The Philippines was named “Asia’s Leading Dive Destination” for the fifth consecutive year at the World Travel Awards (WTA) Asia & Oceania Gala Ceremony 2023 held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on September 6. This was ...

    • Pollution causes algal bloom 

      Aguirre, Jun Ariolo (Panay News, May 26, 2015, on page 5-15)
      An Aklanon government scientist insisted that pollution is the main cause of the algal bloom in this island resort. Raymund Jacinto Sucgang, a researcher for the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute of the Department of ...

    • Pushing the frontiers of aquaculture 

      Carreon-Lagoc, Julia (Panay News, July 21, 2006, on page 10-14)
      The frontiers of the unknown specifically in aquaculture got a push with the installation of the new SEAFDEC/AQD (Aquaculture Department) Chief, Dr. Joebert Toledo, July 7. The AQD main station in Tigbaun, Iloilo was in a ...