Quezon 2nd district Rep. David "Jay-jay" Suarez (Facebook) House Deputy Speaker Quezon 2nd district Rep. David "Jay-jay" Suarez couldn't hide his exasperation Monday, March 4 when he was asked about the reported presence of Chinese vessels in Benham Rise...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (Facebook) A Makabayan lawmaker has described as "deeply troubling" the reported presence of two Chinese research vessels in Benham Rise, officially known as the Philippine Rise, over the weekend. House...
Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda (Facebook) China has no place in Benham Rise. Thus, said Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda, following reports from the Philippine Navy that two Chinese vessels had lingered in Benham Rise, officially known as...
Two alleged Chinese research vessels identified as "Haiyang Dishi Liuhao" and "Haiyang Dizhi Shihao" are monitored sailing across the eastern seaboard of Luzon near the Philippine Rise in this satellite image posted on X (formerly Twitter) by American security analyst Ray Powell on March 1, 2024....
By YVETTE TAN Bungkol Elementary School (BES) stands beside Good Food Farm in Calauan, Laguna. It has been a beneficiary of Rise Against Hunger Philippines’ (RAHP) feeding program for almost two years, and has already seen big results. Bungkol Elementary School has been a beneficiary of Rise...
By YVETTE TAN According to an August 2023 survey by Social Weather Stations, about 10.4 percent of Filipino families have experienced involuntary hunger at least once in the past three months. This means that the family has been hungry but did not have anything to eat. Hunger isn’t the only...
A map image uploaded by maritime security expert Ray Powell on Sept. 15, 2023 shows the movements of Chinese survey ships in the eastern seaboard of the Philippine Sea. (Courtesy of Powell / X) At least three survey ships from China are monitored in the eastern seaboard of the Philippine Sea, a map...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has urged government agencies to pursue projects like the Reformation Initiative for Sustainable Environment (RISE) that would address multiple humanitarian and economic problems. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of KJ Rosales/PPA...
INFANTA, Quezon – A fisherman fell off a fishing vessel while in the Pacific Ocean as he lost his balance while “answering the call of nature,” a belated report here said on Thursday, July 6. According to the report of the Infanta police, the victim identified as Joel Labasan, 44, single, a...
The Philippine government has already identified the four new sites that United States (US) military forces would have access to under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. said on Wednesday, March 22. However, the Chief Executive did not...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza To say that it began as a dream is to make the story sound like a fairy tale. But the rise of hybrid rice is a true story, as real as food for the stomach. As told by the man whose advocacy is to plant the right kind of seeds to make millionaires out of farmers, Henry Lim...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Last week, I was invited to give a motivational talk to the biggest land development company in the country. I gave a 35-minute talk followed by a 25-minute Q&A, where the common theme of the questions was: “How do you deal with a certain mindset of workers that...
