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PRESIDENTS MARCOS, XI HOLD ‘PLEASANT’ 1ST MEETING AHEAD OF CHINA VISIT PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. met Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Thursday in a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Thailand, as he revealed their talk focused on his state visit to the communist nation in January next year. Accompanied by his predecessor and now Senior Deputy Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Mr. Marcos said
the meeting with Xi was “really just the kind of getting-to-know-you” between himself and China’s leader, who made his country’s presence felt in the meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation member nations. “It’s the first time that I met President Xi Jinping and I was very happy that we were able to have this opportunity,” Mr. Marcos said in a 90-second video
released by the Office of the Press Secretary via Twitter. The President said he and Xi “spoke a little bit about regional issues” but mostly about the plans that Mr. Marcos has for the state visit “that I will be undertaking to China in the first week of January.” “The bilateral meeting is really just Next page
PLEASANT FIRST MEETING. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. holds a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bangkok, Thailand late Thursday afternoon. Office of the Press Secretary
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PBBM sees ‘dark clouds ahead’ Rallies APEC leaders to work together for global economic recovery By Vito Barcelo and Vince Lopez
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RESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Thursday warned of "dark clouds" looming ahead on at least three fronts—food security, global health systems and climate change—as he rallied leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) to revitalize the region's role as a driver of the global economy. “Dark clouds loom large if we are not...prepared. They loom on the economic horizon and now more than ever, our governments
3 KEY FACTORS FOR APEC GROWTH. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., in a speech during the APEC CEO Summit at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in Bangkok, underscores three areas that the region must address: ensuring food security, boosting global health systems, and addressing climate change. PBBM's Official Facebook Page, Xinhua
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Food group seeks to protect Thai big firm eyes more aqua-agri projects in PH rice farmers’ farm gate prices By Vince Lopez and Vito Barcelo
FARMERS cannot be on the losing end if the national government decides to lower the price of rice, the Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food Inc. said Thursday. Farmers are seeking two things -- to lower the prices of rice for the consumer, but also to ensure farm gate prices remain high, PCAFI president Danilo Fausto told ABS-CBN.
This comes a day after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said he is getting closer to his campaign promise of having rice sell for P20 a kilo while acknowledging that more needs to be done to make it a reality. “We cannot lower the farm gate prices for the farmers because their costs are P12 [per kilo] because of the high prices of fertilizer and fuel. We cannot allow that Next page
THAI conglomerate CP Group has pledged to make additional investments in the Philippines in aquaculture, rice, and swine production, following a meeting with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in Bangkok, Thailand. During a dinner meeting Wednesday, CP Group officials expressed interest in collaborating with the Philippines in swine, rice, corn and aquaculture, as well
Water rates up at least P5/cubic meter in January Inc. – up by at least five pesos for every 10 cubic meters consumed -- effective JanuTHE government has approved higher ary 2023. water rates for customers of Manila Wa"These rate adjustments will enable ter Co. Inc. and Maynilad Water Services Manila Water and Maynilad to provide the
By Alena Mae S. Flores
highest quality of water, sanitation, and sewerage services that their customers deserve," the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System Regulatory Office Next page
Loud music may cause 1b youths to lose hearing
JESUS AND THE HOMELESS. A child looks at a Belen display at the Kartilya ng Katipunan that depicts the birth of Jesus Christ in a manger, homeless just like the many street children in Metro Manila. Danny Pata
AROUND one billion young people worldwide could be at risk of hearing loss from listening to headphones or attending loud music venues, a large review of the available research estimated on Wednesday. The World Health Organizationled study called on young people to be more careful about their listening habits, and urged governments and manufacturers to do more to protect future hearing. The analysis published in the journal BMJ Global Health looked at data from 33 studies published Next page
as the development of the value chain of those industries to link them to local consumers. CP Group is one of Thailand's largest private companies with a $2 billion investment in the Philippines. The largest and the most significant Thai investment in Philippine agriculture is Charoen Pokphand Foods Philippines Corp. (CPFPC), a subsidiary of Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CPF). CPFPC started operations in the Philip-
pines in May 2010 with a rented feeds mill located in Guiguinto, Bulacan. In 2012, the company made additional investments in aquaculture and agro-business in the country. Aside from shrimp and fish hatchery farms, the company has built one of the most modern aquaculture feed mills in Bataan. The feed mill produces feeds for tilapia, catfish, milkfish, and also shrimp feeds for vannamei and manodon. President Marcos pledged to improve Next page
Villar, Tulfo in heated exchange over farmland conversion issue Sen. Raffy Tulfo
By Macon Ramos-Araneta SENATORS Raffy Tulfo and Cynthia Villar traded barbs over the conversion of agricultural lands to residential and commercial lands Thursday. During the deliberation of the proposed budget of the Department of Agriculture (DA) for 2023, Tulfo said agricultural lands of farm lands are becoming smaller
Sen. Cynthia Villar
and smaller because big developers are buying and turning them into subdivisions and commercial lands. Tulfo demanded to know why the DA was allowing this to happen. But Villar, whose family is one of the biggest land developers in the country, objected to Tulfo’s remarks, denying that they were buying up farm lands. Next page