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China demands US act to improve military ties
China yesterday criticized the United States for flying B-52 bombers in the vicinity of the South China Sea, and demanded that the US take steps to improve military relations amid heightened tensions between the two ...
- September 28, 2018
National Geographic host interested in Phl crocodiles
National Geographic Channels host and reptile expert Brady Barr said that the Philippines is a "special place for crocodiles and expressed interest in doing an investigation about Philippine wildlife, particularly its ...
- June 15, 2013
Cayetano prepares for DFA, joins South China Sea meet
Preparing to assume the post of foreign affairs secretary by the middle of this year, Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano has been joining presidential visits and meetings abroad as well as international conferences on the South China ...
- January 11, 2017
Climate change shifts path of typhoons to lower latitudes
Most of the typhoons that hit the Philippines last year followed the Pacific-Visayas-West Philippine Sea path, an indication the country’s traditional typhoon belt has shifted. This was according to recent international, ...
- January 15, 2015
Friends in deed?
If the Philippines decided to set up an environmental monitoring station on Panatag or Scarborough Shoal, to preserve endangered giant clams and sharks from poachers, how would Beijing react? The United Nations-backed ...
- March 20, 2017
Philippine beach forests
Beach Forest Species and Mangrove Associates in the Philippines is the latest contribution of the tandem of Jurgenne Primavera and Rex Sadaba who eight years earlier published the highly acclaimed Handbook of the Mangroves ...
- December 1, 2012
PHl plants flag underwater to assert maritime rights
Combined military and civilian divers, battling strong underwater currents and other life-threatening challenges, succeeded in hoisting a Philippine flag underwater as the country celebrated Monday its 119th Independence ...
- June 14, 2017
Asean may tackle sea disputes; garbage dumping not on agenda
Bitter disputes over competing claims in the South China Sea are likely to surface at the two-day Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting starting Saturday in this Thai capital after the sinking of a Filipino ...
- June 21, 2019
'Setting aside SCS ruling as good as abandonment'
"Setting aside" the 2016 arbitral court ruling on the South China Sea is a good as abandoning it, Supreme Court (SC) Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio said yesterday. Justice Antonio Carpio issued the statement in ...
- September 14, 2019
BFAR offers scholarships
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) will conduct its nationwide recruitment examination for its fisheries scholarship program on Feb. 24. Nestor Domenden, BFAR Region 1 director, said the scholarship is ...
- January 22, 2018