Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 21:38:39 +0000
The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) is not suspending construction of the China-financed Chico River Pump Irrigation Project
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 23:22:34 +0000
BAGUIO CITY, BENGUET, Philippines — Work on the Chinese-financed Chico River Pump Irrigation Project should be suspended because the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) and its Chinese contractor have not been issued a certification that they obtained the consent of affected tribes in Kalinga province, a committee of the Cordillera Regional Development Council (RDC) said on Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:34:35 +0000
A multibillion-peso dam being pushed to be built in Rizal and Quezon provinces to solve Metro Manila’s water shortage
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 23:22:50 +0000
TABUK CITY — The Chinese contractor of the Chico River Pump Irrigation Project that is being constructed on ancestral domains has failed to get the free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) of affected communities, according to the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in Kalinga province.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 02:05:56 +0000
The Philippines will not waive any governmental assets in the loan agreement for the Chico River Pump Irrigation Project with China.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:35:28 +0000
Senator Francis Pangilinan said that a provision in the loan agreement with China “is downright ridiculous and one-sided.”
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 05:48:21 +0000
The “onerous” provision in the Chico River Pump Irrigation Project between the Philippines and China is just “standard,” Malacañang said.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 21:18:47 +0000
BAGUIO CITY—An alliance of indigenous people’s (IP) groups in the Cordillera has assailed the Chico River Pump Irrigation Project (CRPIP) that they believed would worsen water shortage in Kalinga and nearby provinces.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2019 04:08:41 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Saturday slammed senatorial candidate Neri Colmenares for allegedly seeking media mileage by politicizing
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