Tisoy gains momentum, sea trips in Bohol ports cancelled
As Typhoon Tisoy gained power while entering the northern region of the Philippine Area of Responsibility, all sea trips in Bohol have been cancelled.
Search continues for 13 missing Bataan fisherfolk
It has been over two weeks since the fishing vessel FFB Three Sisters – 2 disappeared due to strong wind and big waves somewhere in the area of Bajo de Masinloc, Zambales
Pork-sniffing dogs to help safeguard Cebu amid ASF scare
Poochie, the Golden Retriever, used to be a narco sniffing dog but was trained to be a pork sniffer to provide support to government’s efforts to stop illegal shipment of pork and pork-products to places that implement a hog ban due to the ASF.
20K Bataan residents help out in coastal clean-up
Bagac, Bataan observed International Coastal Clean-up Day in its seven coastal villages and all the 14 barangays with some 20,000 people participating, the biggest so far.
8 Coast Guard men guilty of killing Taiwanese fisherman
Eight Philippine coast guard personnel have been sentenced to 14 years and 8 months in jail over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman in the Balintang Channel in May 2013