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    • Occidental Mindoro: Next tourism gem 

      Gonzales, Edison Joseph (Malaya, January 4, 2019, on page A7)
      Occidental Mindoro is nature's tranquil haven with its marine, wildlife and bird sanctuary and stretches of secluded white sands. It is a paradise waiting to be explored. Dive into the coral sanctuaries of Apo Reef Marine ...

    • Boracay rehabilitation to cost P25B: NEDA 

      Celis, Angela (Malaya, January 8, 2019, on page A1)
      The Medium-Term Boracay Action Plan (BAP), which formally lays out the proposed programs for island's rehabilitation, has an estimated total investment requirement of P25.27 billion, according to the National Economic and ...

    • Reef makes a pledge for cleaner beaches 

      (Malaya, December 21, 2018, on page B7)
      Dedicated to making sure beaches stay clean and healthy, international beach apparel brand Reef pledges to use the fun, freedom, and spirit of the beach to champion a better life for people and planet. To achieve this, ...

    • Cleanups make Batangas coastline haven for Olive-Ridley sea turtles 

      (Malaya, January 4, 2019, on page A7)
      Olive-Ridley sea turtle nesting sites with more than 300 eggs were recently found along the Chevron Batangas Terminal coastline, where Chevron employee volunteers recently conducted their annual coastal cleanup. Four nesting ...

    • US envoy: China, not US, to blame for WPS tension 

      Hachero, Ashzel (Malaya, December 20, 2018, on page B6)
      US Ambassador Sung Kim said Beijing, not Washington, is to blame for the militarization of the West Philippine Sea. Ki made the remark in response to a request for comment on President Duterte's statement that Washington ...

    • Cleaning the lake 

      (Malaya, December 20, 2018, on page B4)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is at the head of Government efforts to clean important tourist attractions such as Boracay, Bohol, and Palawan. While they are at it, it would be better if concerned ...

    • The final frontier: Who owns the oceans and their hidden treasures? 

      Tabary, Zoe (Malaya, December 5, 2018, on page B4)
      Oceans - which scientists say are less understood than the moon or Mars - cover more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, yet less than 20 percent of their seafloor has been mapped or observed, according to the U.S. ...

    • PCSO partners with Navy, DENR for coastal cleanup 

      Busque, Shelly (The Manila Times, December 26, 2018, on page D3)
      Marine pollution — as people know but do not really pay attention to – is any human-made material that is thrown, abandoned or amassed on the coast, bay, beach, waterways that lead to the ocean, or in the ocean itself. ...

    • How Beijing is winning in the South China Sea 

      Apps, Peter (Malaya, April 2, 2018, on page B4)
      Earlier last March, the USS Carl Vinson became the first American aircraft carrier to visit Vietnam since the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Coming alongside the news that a record 23 nations from Southeast Asia and beyond ...

    • P20B losses seen with Boracay closure 

      Iglesias, M.; Montemayor, Jocelyn (Malaya, April 6, 2018, on page A1)
      As much as P20 billion will be lost due to the six-month closure of Boracay Island. President Duterte is set to declare a state of calamity in Boracay before the island is shut down starting April 26 and will make available ...

    • DA seeks offers for cold storage facilities for fisheries 

      (Malaya, April 16, 2018, on page A2)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) is inviting suppliers of icemaking equipment, including cold storage facilities and refrigerated transport equipment to submit their offers for shortlisting. The DA is seeking proposals ...

    • DOLE ready to assist Boracay workers who will be displaced 

      Naval, Gerard Anthony (Malaya, April 2, 2018, on page B6)
      The Labor Department is ready to assist workers who would be displaced if government makes good on its disposal to close Boracay for six moths starting April 26 for rehabilitation. DOLE-Western Visayas Director Johnson ...

    • Cabinet may take up Boracay issue today 

      Montemayor, Jocelyn (Malaya, April 4, 2018, on page B6)
      Proposals on the closure of Boracay Island may be taken up at the Cabinet meeting today, Senior Deputy Executive Secretary Menardo Guevarra said yesterday. He said a more detailed proposal has been submitted by an inter-agency ...

    • Affordable test for shrimp disease 

      Icamina, Paul (Malaya, April 10, 2018, on page A2)
      A highly sensitive tool that detects a disease that affects shrimps has been developed at the University of Santo Tomas (UST). The technology helps detect Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease (AHPND) or Early Mortality ...

    • Mussels R&D is going high tech 

      (Malaya, April 4, 2018, on page A2)
      Not new but high tech just the same, geospatial technologies is now being applied for mussel culture management. Geospatial technologies in the Philippines include geographic mapping and analysis of the Earth surface and ...

    • Celebrating PH independence with a fishy doodle 

      (Malaya, June 13, 2018, on page A11)
      Google Philippines celebrates the 120th anniversary of Philippine Independence with a doodle that features the Philippine marine life. Home to at least 2,000 aquatic species and long cluster of corals, the Philippines is ...

    • Seaweed industry assured of market 

      Macapagal, Jed (Malaya, April 23, 2018, on page A2)
      Local seaweed products are assured of a steady market in the United States as the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that carrageenan, a seaweed-derived substance will remain in its list of approved additives ...

    • Benham Rise trip: Duterte’s latest comedy act 

      Tordesillas, Ellen (Malaya, April 30, 2018, on page B4)
      China builds a monument on Kagitingan Reef that the Philippines claims as part of its territory in South China Sea and President Duterte announces he will sail to Benham Rise, an underwater plateau east of Luzon that has ...

    • Boracay placed under state of calamity 

      Montemayor, Jocelyn; Lopez, JP; Africa, Raymond (Malaya, April 27, 2018, on page B1)
      President Duterte yesterday placed all three barangays in Boracay Island under a under a state of calamity and said the closure of the island-resort, which started yesterday, will be up to October 25 this year. The declaration ...

    • DENR Cracks down hard on restaurants polluting Manila Bay 

      Orias, Evan (Malaya, January 28, 2019, on page B1)
      The wastewater-discharging facilities of two restaurants and establishments were ordered closed by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) yesterday for releasing "pollutive wastewater" into the Manila ...