By Rose de la Cruz

Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos, brother of failed vice- presidential candidate Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos has voiced an impossible request to rice traders and the National Food Authority: Buy rice high and sell to consumers low.

As if that suggestion would ever hold water in a commercial world, where traders would do everything to jack up prices (for better returns for them) and never mind if consumers suffer in the end.

She also asked the NFA Council, under the supervision of Agriculture Secretary Manny Pinol, to “calibrate the import duty just…

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By Rose de la Cruz

A third of the world’s oceans are over-fished. Stocks may not last long, thus warned the Food and Agriculture Organization.

FAO said stocks fished within biologically sustainable levels has decreased from 90 percent to 66.9 percent, with some fish species not having enough population left in the ocean to replenish and reproduce.

Over the years, the demand for seafood has drastically increased. Some 3.2 billion people rely on fish for almost 20 percent of their animal protein intake. Some communities, usually in developing countries, depend on fish as a key source of protein…

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By Rose de la Cruz

SM Foundation Inc. health and medical team honored recently its volunteer doctors participating in its medical/dental missions throughout the country, its partners since the program started in 2001.

The thanksgiving luncheon for the volunteer- doctors is just timely and fitting as they are always there to help us in every way and to make our missions of giving health care and wellness to the people, especially those who can least afford seeing a doctor or having a diagnosis of possible illnesses as well as to SM employees, a great success, said Connie Angeles,…

Read more: SM Foundation honors volunteer doctors in thanksgiving lunch

By Rose de la Cruz

SM Foundation Inc. health and medical team honored recently its volunteer doctors for its medical/dental missions throughout the country, its partners since the program started in 2001.

The thanksgiving luncheon for the volunteer- doctors is just timely and fitting as they are always there to help us in every way and to make our missions of giving health care and wellness to the people, especially those who can least afford seeing a doctor or having a diagnosis of possible illnesses as well as to SM employees, a great success, said Connie Angeles, assistant…

Read more: SM Foundation honors volunteer doctors in thanksgiving lunch