The Philippine Fiber Development Authority (PhilFida) is targeting to plant cotton in at least 660 hectares across the country this year as part of government efforts to revitalize the local garments industry.
PhilFida Executive Director Kennedy T. Costales told the BusinessMirror that the attached agency of the Department of Agriculture (DA) received a P96-million budget from Sen. Loren B. Legarda for its cotton-development project.
The Senate has adopted a resolution expressing its concurrence to the ratification of an international agreement that facilitates multilateral cooperation and enhanced collective capability to suppress cybercrime.
According to Senate Resolution Number 616 sponsored by Sen. Loren Legarda, the Convention on Cybercrime, signed in Budapest, Hungary on November 23, 2001 and signed by Pres. Rodrigo Duterte on December 9, 2016, “remains the sole binding international legal mechanism adopted by countries to address the threats posed by cybercrime”.
Senator Loren Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, today said that the Senate has unanimously concurred in the ratification of five (5) treaties covering the Philippines’ Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements (DTAA) with Mexico, Thailand and Sri Lanka, the Cybercrime Convention, and the Agreement on the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO).
Sen. Loren Legarda, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, said the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime aims to address the threats posed by cybercrime and facilitates multilateral cooperation and enhanced collective capability to suppress cybercrime.
“Since cybercrime is borderless, simultaneous and persistent, cooperation, coordination, and collaboration with other countries is therefore vital,” Legarda said.
Senator Loren Legarda invites everyone to watch the 11th episode of the documentary series Our Fragile Earth: Protected Areas of the Philippines, featuring the Sagay Marine Reserve in Negros Occidental, on Saturday, February 17, 7:45 a.m., on ANC, the ABS-CBN News Channel.
Sagay Marine Reserve is a protected landscape and seascape composed of the islands and islets of Molocaboc, Molocaboc Diut, Matabas and Suyac, and their surrounding reefs—Carbin, Panal and Macahulom.
