A makeshift, temporary wall has been erected across a bridge on a road from the airport to downtown Manila that hides a sprawling slum along a garbage-strewn creek.
MANILA – The Philippines is looking to increase its contribution to a strategic emergency rice reserve in the region in the coming years as it achieves self-sufficiency in the production of the crop.
Agriculture Assistant Secretary Dante Delima told reporters late Monday that the country intends to increase its contribution to the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR) agreement in the future.
The Philippines has pledged to contribute 12,000 tons under the APTERR.
“We are still trying to achieve sufficiency. We don’t have enough surplus to contribute more than that (12,000 tons),” Delima said.
Developing Asia must not forget its long-term structural reforms that are in progress while protecting itself against possible escalation of global financial crisis, according to an Asian Development Bank report presented on Thursday at the ADB 45th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City.
“While authorities continue to strengthen macroeconomic resilience to shocks, we also need to reinvigorate focus on the region’s long-term development goals,” ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda said.
He added that the ultimate challenge is to continue transforming economies in a way that promotes peoples’ welfare and reduces poverty.
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MANILA – The Philippines is looking to increase its contribution to a strategic emergency rice reserve in the region in the coming years as it achieves self-sufficiency in the production of the crop.
Agriculture Assistant Secretary Dante Delima told reporters late Monday that the country intends to increase its contribution to the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR) agreement in the future.
The Philippines has pledged to contribute 12,000 tons under the APTERR.
“We are still trying to achieve sufficiency. We don’t have enough surplus to contribute more than that (12,000 tons),” Delima said.
Developing Asia must not forget its long-term structural reforms that are in progress while protecting itself against possible escalation of global financial crisis, according to an Asian Development Bank report presented on Thursday at the ADB 45th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City.
“While authorities continue to strengthen macroeconomic resilience to shocks, we also need to reinvigorate focus on the region’s long-term development goals,” ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda said.
He added that the ultimate challenge is to continue transforming economies in a way that promotes peoples’ welfare and reduces poverty.
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MANILA—“Hit them where it hurts.”
Balikbayan (returning Filipino) philanthropist, civil leader and lawyer Loida Nicolas-Lewis has called on the government to “show courage” by hitting back at China for “bullying” small countries like the Philippines and violating the country’s territorial sovereignty.
Lewis also reminded Filipinos worldwide, including an undisclosed number of Chinese-Filipinos, to rally in front of China’s embassies and consulates on May 11 to protest China’s aggressive encroachments on Scarborough Shoal, located 124 nautical miles west of Zambales province and more than 440 nautical miles from the nearest Chinese port of Hainan.
Dr. Mohammad Yunus, Nobel Prize Winner and founder of Grameen Bank joined some of the most influential business leaders such as former New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Michael Treschow, Chairman of Unilever to select this year’s winning business plans. President Bill Clinton served as this year’s keynote speaker and personally presented the awards to the winning teams.
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