Vietnam asks PH to extend rice deal

08/07/2016

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh said Vietnam and the Philippines should consider extending their rice trade deal, which will expire at the end of this year, for a new period…

Cebuano Pantino falters in Vietnam

John Carlo Villaruel 08/04/2016

CEBUANO netter Arthur Craig Pantino was unable to complete his run for the title as he bowed to top-ranked Ye Cong Mo of China, 5-7, 7-5, 6-2, in the final round of the Junior Vietnam Open sanctioned…

LONE BET

Glendale G. Rosal 07/25/2016

Rafael Vidal is only PH karateka competing in Asia-Pacific Karate tilt Cebuano karateka Rafael Vidal will be the lone Filipino competitor in the upcoming Hayashi-ha 4th Asia-Pacific Karate and Kobudo Championships this weekend in Colombo, Sri Lanka.…

Obama pushes for better rights in Vietnam

05/25/2016

HANOI, Vietnam — President Barack Obama yesterday pressed Vietnam to allow greater freedoms for its citizens, arguing that better human rights would improve the communist country’s economy, stability and regional power. On his second full day in…

Vietnam urges China to move oil rig

04/09/2016

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam demanded yesterday that China remove an oil exploration rig from a sea area where the countries are still negotiating a delineation of control and stop complicating the situation with unilateral action. The oil…

Vietnamese tops Binh Duong bike

James Nicole Franz R. Savellon 03/12/2016

TWENTY three year old Vietnamese Thi That Nguyen of Vietnam topped the 34km Stage 5 of the Binh Duong International Women’s Cycling Tournament-Biwase Cup 2016 in Nha Trang City, Vietnam yesterday. The cyclist from Team Tap Doan…

More rice shipments expected in Cebu

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/20/2016

FIVE more vessels loaded with imported rice will arrive in Cebu soon, the National Food Authority (NFA) said. Olma Marie Bayno, assistant information officer of NFA-7, said each vessel carries around 120,000 sacks of rice from Vietnam…

Gov’t finds ways to hasten unloading of Vietnam rice

Jhunnex Napallacan, Marites Villamor Ilano, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Victor Anthony V. Silva 02/19/2016

The National Food Authority (NFA) and Cebu Port Authority (CPA) have identified measures to expedite the unloading of some 240,000 sacks of Vietnamrice from two vessels that have been unable to dock because of the lack of…

Unloading of imported rice delayed

Marites Villamor Ilano, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/19/2016

UNLOADING of a shipment of 800,000 bags of rice from Vietnam has been delayed because of the lack of berthing space at the Cebu International Port (CIP). As of yesterday, National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Renan B.…

A reemergence of fascism

Raymund Fernandez 11/22/2015

It is natural for humans to look with suspicion and latent hatred at those more powerful than them. And so the current propensity to hate US Americans is understandable especially among those who might suffer in some…

Duterte on sea row: US would never die for us

08/03/2015

DAVAO CITY – America would never die for us, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte told visiting military attachés, some of them coming from the US and China, over trouble at the South China Sea. The mayor met the military…

Business, government gear up for APEC meet

Melissa Q. Cabahug 07/16/2015

Business groups, regional agencies, and the cities of Mandaue, Cebu and Lapu-Lapu, under the lead of the Cebu provincial government, have stepped up preparations for the hosting of APEC meetings from August 22 to October 14 here.…

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