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DU30 wants 'structures' built on Benham Rise
President Duterte has ordered the Philippine Navy to put up “structures” to assert the country’s sovereignty over an underwater landmass 250 kilometers off the east coast of Luzon that a Chinese survey ship visited for six ...
- March 15, 2017
Locsin says 60 protests sent to China over WPS
The Philippine government has “fired off” a total of 60 diplomatic protests against the incursions of China on the West Philippine Sea (WPS), Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin told lawmakers on Wednesday. But Locsin rejected ...
- September 5, 2019
Fishery deal well with in sea ruling'
The government on Wednesday assured the public that the provisional fishing agreement that Manila wants to sign with Beijing will be in accordance with the Arbitral Tribunal ruling rejecting China’s claims to the disputed ...
- September 1, 2016
Envoy: PH-US military pact crucial to keeping region stable
The military alliance between the United States and the Philippines remains critically significant to maintaining peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region, including in the hotly contested South China Sea, US Ambassador ...
- May 24, 2019
Aquino, Vietnam PM may tackle dispute with China
Territorial disputes with China may be on top of the agenda when President Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung meet in Manila this week, Malacañang said yesterday. The meeting between the two leaders comes in the wake of the ...
- May 18, 2014
DFA urged: File protest vs China's 'bullying' of TV crew in Panatag
Senators on Friday called on the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to file a diplomatic protest against China following a recent incident in which the Chinese Coast Guard blocked a Filipino TV news crew from filming in ...
- November 24, 2018
Enrile favors negotiation on disputed West PH Sea
With former Philippines government officials lodging a complaint in the International Criminal Court against Chinese President Xi Jinping for activities in the disputed South China Sea, former Senate President Juan Ponce ...
- March 23, 2019
Public agendas and private interests in ICC/South China Sea
In February, the US-based Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) released a heavily promoted report alleging that China sought to intimidate Filipinos into ceasing construction work on the Pag-Asa Island (Thitu) in ...
- April 8, 2019
Taiwan shuns 'new' sea
Taiwan does not recognize a unilateral move by the Philippines to rename the South China Sea as the West Philippine Sea, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Taiwan's Central News Agency (CAN) said the ministry issued a ...
- September 14, 2012
PH steps up island devt in China sea
The Philippines will follow the lead of China and Vietnam and develop islands under its control in the disputed South China Sea, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Tuesday. “My plan of action is also to develop all ...
- January 10, 2018