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Reef Alert
There is no way attention will be directed at the crying urgency of protecting the coral reefs unless we belabor the issue and repeat ourselves. At the rate coral reefs are being destroyed by human activity or damaged by ...
- October 9, 2016
No territorial nego with China: Duterte
President Duterte yesterday assured the United States that the Philippines would neither negotiate nor trade its territorial rights with China. Connecticut Senator Christopher Murphy, in his Twitter account (@ChrisMurphyCT), ...
- July 20, 2016
Vietnam activists thank Philippines
Activists in Vietnam held a brief rally outside the Philippine Embassy in Hanoi Sunday, holding up a banner that said “Thank you Philippines. You have a brave government.” The group was part of demonstrations in the ...
- July 18, 2016
Scarborough Shoal taken!
National security observers view the move as part of the chain of event in the Bamboo Curtain's initiative to re-balance the United State's pivot to Asia, covering a rich and most internationally traveled trade route in ...
- September 15, 2016
Rody to fishermen: just be patient
Before leaving for China, Duterte announced on several occasions that the issue of fishing at Panatag Shoal would be among the issues he would discuss with his Chinese counterparts. He said he would “ask” the Chinese to ...
- October 23, 2016
Meet with Sino envoy excluded dispute
Newly appointed Foreign Secretary Jose Rene Almendras met with China’s ambassador to the Philippines Monday to discuss the bilateral relations between the two countries—except matters concerning the dispute in the South ...
- March 22, 2016
Duterte readied 'alternatives' to protect PH waters - Abella
Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella made the remarks after Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Caprio reportedly called for continued joint patrols between the Philippines and the United States to protect the country's ...
- October 13, 2016
Duterte ready to face China on territorial issue
President Duterte last night said he is willing to conduct bilateral talks with China but within the context of the decision of a UN-backed tribunal awarding sovereign rights to the Philippines in the dispute over South ...
- August 18, 2016
Tension in disputed sea escalates after China's 'test flight' on artificial island
China’s first landing of a plane on one of its new island runways in the South China Sea shows Beijing’s facilities in the disputed region are being completed on schedule and military flights will inevitably follow, foreign ...
- January 6, 2016
China may be building anew in Scarborough
President Duterte revealed the other day intelligence reports indicating that China may be planning to start new constructions at disputed areas in the West Philippine Sea, particularly in Scarborough Shoal (also known as ...
- September 4, 2016