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2 months ago | 
plus.inquirer.net | Gillian N. Villanueva |Jordeene B. Lagare
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Monday said that it required mining companies to integrate the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations into their social development and management programs (SDMPs).
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
plus.inquirer.net | Gillian N. Villanueva
The Philippines, which uses 163 million plastic sachets daily, is stepping up its efforts to tackle this plastic crisis by launching the Philippine National Plastic Action Partnership (NPAP), which aims to foster collaboration between various stakeholders. These include the private sector, civil society and development partners that will be part of an NPAP “steering board,” with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) serving as its chair.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
newsinfo.inquirer.net | Gillian N. Villanueva
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit Southern Leyte on Thursday morning followed by a magnitude 5.4 quake in Zamboanga del Norte, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). There were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
plus.inquirer.net | Gillian N. Villanueva
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit Southern Leyte on Thursday morning followed by a magnitude 5.4 quake in Zamboanga del Norte, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). There were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage. Phivolcs said the quake in Southern Leyte was recorded 6 kilometers off the municipality of San Francisco in Panaon Island with a depth of 11 km.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
plus.inquirer.net | Gillian N. Villanueva
A total of 18 foreigners, 11 of them Chinese and the rest Vietnamese, were arrested last week in Parañaque City for scamming activities. The National Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday that its agents conducted an operation on Jan. 15 at Multinational Village in Parañaque, which led to the arrest of seven Vietnamese and three Chinese nationals. They were found to be engaged in various scamming activities, such as investment fraud, cryptocurrency scam and artificial intelligence scam.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
plus.inquirer.net | Gillian N. Villanueva
Metro, News, Only on INQ Plus Members of a fisher’s group held a protest on Monday to criticize the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) for the delayed release of a study it commissioned on the impacts of reclamation projects in Manila Bay. According to the Pambansang Lakas nag Kilusang Mamamalakaya nag Pilipinas (Pamalakaya), the DENR in 2023 commissioned the University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute (UP MSI) “to conduct a comprehensive study on the cumulative...
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
plus.inquirer.net | Gillian N. Villanueva |Dexter Cabalza
WASHINGTON—On his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump announced the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris climate accord and from the World Health Organization (WHO)—an executive action he made during his first term but which his successor, Joe Biden, reversed. Trump’s move taking back the United States’ commitment to the Paris climate accord is seen as a defiant rejection of global efforts to combat planetary warming as catastrophic weather events intensify worldwide.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
plus.inquirer.net | Gillian N. Villanueva
Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation have arrested a Chinese national and a Filipino in two separate entrapment operations for sexually exploiting women. In a statement on Tuesday, the NBI said that agents of its Naga District Office arrested Marjohn Lanera Boragay, also known as “Baks” or “Bella,” at an apartelle in Naga, Camarines Sur, on Jan. 14 after placing him under surveillance. They caught Boragay in the act of trading 10 women, two of them minors, for sexual exploitation.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
newsinfo.inquirer.net | Gillian N. Villanueva
MANILA, Philippines — Sheila Crisostomo, a reporter for the Philippine Star for over 30 years, passed away on Wednesday at East Avenue Medical Center in Quezon City from a stroke. “We are saddened to say that our beloved Sheila Crisostomo y Villaflores died at 10:53 p.m. on Jan. 15, two days after she suffered a stroke. She was 54,” her brother Allan said in a Facebook post.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
globalnation.inquirer.net | Gillian N. Villanueva
MANILA, Philippines — Five Filipinos have been arrested after they tried to bribe operatives of the National Bureau of Investigation who caught 12 Chinese nationals operating a scam hub in Tambo, Parañaque City, last week. The NBI said on Tuesday that operatives of its Cybercrime Division (CCD) and Special Task Force (STF) discovered the scam hub while assisting officers from the Bureau of Immigration (BI) who were investigating foreigners who had been arrested on Jan.
