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Villar renews call for ban on single-use plastic
Government agencies and local officials should work harder to ban single-use plastic, which is one of the main causes of the degradation of Manila Bay, Sen. Cynthia Villar said yesterday. Villar, chairperson of the Senate ...
- January 25, 2020
DENR seeks private firms' help in Manila Bay cleanup
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has asked more private firms to include in their corporate social responsibility programs the cleanup of Manila Bay. Saying the DENR cannot rehabilitate Manila Bay ...
- March 2, 2020
Carpio: China’s naming of sea features doesn’t mean sovereignty
China’s naming of features in the South China Sea, including islands in the Philippine-held Kalayaan Island Group (KIG), does not matter since names of the geologic features do not determine sovereignty, retired Supreme ...
- May 8, 2020
In defense of the Manila Bay Beach project
Secretary Roy Cimatu and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) are under fire for initiating a P389-million project to convert the stony breakwater between the American embassy and the Manila Yacht ...
- September 16, 2020
Deteriorating US-China relations: How did it come to this?
China’s expansionist actions in the South China Sea and the Indo-Pacific region is also giving rise to a “concerted pushback” from many nations. China’s Belt and Road Initiative gave it an opportunity to expand its economic ...
- July 26, 2020
Navy, fisherfolk warned vs 'violent' Chinese coast guard law
Government, commercial and exploration vessels as well as small fishermen have been warned to be on alert as Beijing’s new law authorizing its coast guard to fire on any foreign ship and demolish structures in the South ...
- February 1, 2021
Phl files new diplomatic protest vs China over boats
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) yesterday filed another diplomatic protest against China the second in two weeks as Chinese maritime militia vessels remained in Julian Felipe (Whitsun) Reef in the West Philippine ...
- April 8, 2021
Locsin to China: Get the f**k out of Phl waters
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. yesterday told China to “get the f*** out” of Philippine waters as he filed two more diplomatic protests over the “incessant, illegal” presence of its fishing boats in the West ...
- May 4, 2021