Senators order BFAR to share vessel monitoring data as LGUs, Oceana push to protect 15-km municipal waters from commercial fishing. (Image courtesy of Oceana) MANILA, Philippines — Senators are pressing the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to explain why vessel monitoring data meant to curb illegal fishing remainsContinue Reading

Former Supreme Court associate justice Antonio Carpio urges moral reckoning as ICC hears Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war case over alleged crimes against humanity. (Image by Wikimedia Creative Commons) MANILA, Philippines – Former Supreme Court associate justice Antonio Carpio is calling for a “moral reckoning” as the International Criminal Court (ICC) pressesContinue Reading