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DELEGATES from member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) gathered in Manila for a two-day regional research forum to develop the Southeast Asian Framework for Motivating Teachers to Stay in the Profession.
THE Department of Tourism and its infrastructure arm, the Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (Tieza), signed a 22-year agreement on Tuesday with the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) to put up a film heritage building in Intramuros, Manila.
MESSAGING application Viber said an upgrade in its server systems caused a downtime in its upload of photos.
JUNIOR Achievement Philippines (JA PH) has relaunched its award-winning financial literacy education program «Cha-Ching» to reach 1 million students and 28,000 teachers nationwide and teach money management skills.
MANILA: Filipino forces would dismantle any floating barrier that China's coast guard may install in the disputed South China Sea, a Philippine admiral said Wednesday after Manila infuriated China by removing one such obstruction in a contested shoal. Philippine officials strongly condemned the installation last week of a 300-metre (980-foot) -long barrier by Chinese coast guard vessels at the entrance to the lagoon of Scarborough Shoal as a violation of international law and the country's sovereignty. The barrier has prevented a swarm of Filipino boats from entering the rich fishing area, they said. The shoal lies within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone just west of the main Luzon Island, but has been occupied by China since 2012 as part of a push by Beijing to lay claim to virtually the entire South China Sea. On Monday, the Philippine coast guard said it has complied with an order by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to launch a covert operation to remove the rope and net barrier held up by small buoys in the mouth of the shoal. China reacted on Tuesday by asking the Philippines "not to make provocations or seek trouble". "Huayang Island is China's inherent territory," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said in a news briefing in Beijing on Wednesday, referring to the Chinese name for Scarborough.
The Philippines vowed on Tuesday not to back down in the face of a Chinese effort to block its fishermen from a fiercely contested shoal in the South China Sea, while Beijing warned the Southeast Asian nation not to “provoke and cause trouble”.
MANILA: The coastguard of the Philippines urged the country's fishermen on Wednesday to keep operating at the disputed Scarborough Shoal and other sites in the South China Sea, pledging to step up patrols there despite an imposing Chinese presence. Philippine vessels were unable to maintain a constant presence but were committed to protecting the rights of fishermen inside the country's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), coastguard spokesperson Commodore Jay Tarriela said. "We're going to increase patrols in Bajo de Masinloc and other areas where Filipino fishermen are," he told DZRH radio, referring to the shoal, one of Asia's most contested maritime features, by its Philippine name. On Monday, the coastguard cut a 300-m (980-ft) floating barrier installed by China that blocked access to the Scarborough Shoal, a bold response in an area Beijing has controlled for more than a decade with coastguard ships and a fleet of large fishing vessels.
MANILA, Philippines — Google Philippines yesterday announced the launch by Google Cloud of a free artificial intelligence skills development course to help bring AI and machine learning education to Filipinos.