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DILG to convene mayors on Manila Bay rehab today
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) will convene today 178 city and municipal mayors to discuss the rehabilitation efforts for Manila Bay. DILG Secretary Eduardo Año said the local chief executives’ ...
- February 11, 2019
Pasig River rehab body partners with Chinese firm
To help address pollution in the Pasig River and enhance its development for socioeconomic purposes, the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC) recently entered into a partnership with China First Highway Engineering ...
- March 29, 2019
Fisherfolk seek guidelines on quarantine
The fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) is seeking “clear and comprehensive fishing guidelines” in Manila Bay while the government is enforcing a community quarantine in ...
- March 15, 2020
Doublespeak blurs our position on SCS
Was President Duterte informing the United Nations merely for the record, or to lay the basis for an action plan, on the 2016 arbitral award in favor of the Philippines vs China affirming his country’s sovereign rights in ...
- September 29, 2020
Pinoys want China to pay for Phl boat sinking
The Philippine government should take action against the Chinese vessel that sank the boat of Filipino fishermen off the coast of Recto Bank, 34 percent of respondents said in a recent Pulse Asia survey. The latest Ulat ...
- July 27, 2019
Oceana opposes plan to import more galunggong
Oceana Philippines is opposing the proposal of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources to allow more fish imports, particularly roundscad or galunggong, into the country. Bringing in more fish could affect the ...
- January 27, 2019
Phi won't recognize China air restrictions
The Philippines will not recognize restrictions on air and sea travel set by China in the West Philippine Sea, President Aquino said yesterday. “We will still fly the routes that we fly based on international law and the ...
- May 25, 2015
Plant mangroves, not cancerous fake sand
Plant mangroves on the entire 190-kilometer coastline of Manila Bay. That will rehab the murky waters not cancerous artificial white sand on a half-kilometer seafront along Roxas Boulevard, Manila. Alibis for the government’s ...
- September 11, 2020
Indonesian leader: Sinking Jakarta needs giant sea wall
Indonesia’s president said in an interview that he wants to see the speedy construction of a giant sea wall around Jakarta to prevent the low-lying capital from sinking under the sea, lending renewed backing and a sense ...
- July 29, 2019
220 Chinese vessels swarm Phl reef in WPS
About 220 Chinese maritime militia vessels were spotted within the West Philippine Sea earlier this month, according to the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea (NTF-WPS), prompting the Philippines to file a ...
- March 22, 2021