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Palace: Hague ruling not shelved but unenforceable
The Duterte administration never shelved the arbitral ruling on the South China Sea (SCS), Malacañang said yesterday, after the Philippines’ former top diplomat urged the government to “unshelve” the landmark decision that ...
- April 15, 2019
Aussie-Phl group to drill for oil in disputed waters
Amid an increasingly tense territorial dispute between the Philippines and China, an Australian-Filipino consortium is set to drill a new deepwater exploratory well in the resource-rich West Philippine Sea, hoping to tap ...
- July 20, 2015
Supreme Court asked to compel gov't to protect West PH Sea environment
The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), along with fisherfolk from Palawan and Zambales, filed with the Supreme Court yesterday a petition against some members of the Cabinet and heads of several government agencies ...
- April 17, 2019
Joint gas exploration puts China under PH control – Malacañang
Malacañang said that China would have to comply to Philippine laws in case the joint exploration in Service Contract (SC) 57 pushes through as the said area is under the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the Philippines. ...
- March 6, 2018
China wants PH to ignore ruling of arbitration court
President Duterte said the 2016 ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration which favored the Philippines in its territorial dispute with China should be "ignored" and set aside if the two countries will pursue a joint ...
- September 12, 2019
PH supports US patrols in South China Sea
The Philippines on Wednesday said US patrols in the South China Sea were necessary to check China’s “illegal, unilateral and expansive” claims in the heavily disputed waterway. “The Philippines reiterates its previous ...
- October 29, 2015
Gigantic fraud, Carpio calls China sea claim
It may be a tall task, but Filipinos should start educating 1.4 billion Chinese people that their belief that China owned the entire South China Sea is a “gigantic fraud,” acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio said on Monday. ...
- November 27, 2018
Lorenzana hits China's nukes WPS
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has objected to China’s transport of “nuclear elements” to the contested area at the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), as reported by the US defense and military establishment. “We ...
- August 28, 2018
PHL argues vs China's claims in Hague tribunal
The Philippines opened its case against China before an international arbitration tribunal, saying Beijing is disallowed from exercising its “historic rights” over waters of the South China Sea beyond its entitlement limits ...
- July 9, 2015
Palace mulls renaming Benham Rise to ‘PH Rise’
To emphasize the Philippines’ sovereign rights and jurisdiction in the contested area, the Malacañang on Saturday said that the government is thinking of renaming “Benham Rise” to “Philippine Rise.” Benham Rise, which is ...
- April 2, 2017