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China sea claim nips oil deal
The Philippines is finding ways to explore for oil and gas in the South China Sea even without a deal with China, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Friday, adding that the country has the right to exploit energy reserves ...
- December 2, 2022
Rody demands sanction vs. Chinese trawler crew
President Rodrigo Duterte told Chinese leader Xi Jinping he wanted the crew of the Chinese trawler that hit and sank a Filipino fishing boat on June 9 sanctioned so as to get closure on the incident, a Palace spokesman ...
- August 31, 2019
Palace on Du30 joke: PH not giving away territory
The government will not give away a single inch of Philippine territory to China, and should not seriously take President Rodrigo Duterte’s joke to make the country a province of China, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque ...
- February 21, 2018
China's failure on marine environment
One major issue raised by the Philippine government panel before the Permanent Court of Arbitration arbitral tribunal on the South China Sea/West Philippine Sea dispute was China’s failure to live up to its obligations to ...
- August 9, 2018
China protests US warship near reef
Beijing voiced displeasure on Friday after a US warship sailed near an artificial island in the disputed South China Sea, an operation that prompted the Chinese navy to warm off the American destroyer. The USS John S. ...
- August 12, 2017
Growing resistance to Beijing aggression
Tensions have reached new levels four years after the arbitral decision declared unlawful and without basis Beijing’s absurd “nine-dash line” territorial claim of 1.3 million square miles in the South China Sea (SCS). For ...
- July 13, 2020
Think tank warns: China deploys jet in SCS
China has deployed a military aircraft to a base it had built on a reclaimed island in the South China Sea, photos from an American think tank released Wednesday confirmed.
The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative published ...
- May 11, 2018
Ramming victims may seek claim
The fishermen involved in the Recto Bank incident should file an insurance claim to receive compensation from the Chinese trawler that rammed their boat, Malacañang said Monday. The Palace made the statement a month after ...
- October 1, 2019
AFP chief to increase sea patrols
The new Armed Forces of the Philippines chief said Tuesday he would increase patrols in contested waters due to what he described as an "alarming" China law that allows its Coast Guard to at foreign vessels and tear down ...
- February 10, 2021
What now after Xi's rejection
The recent statement of Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo reported that, as committed, President Duterte was, "steadfast in raising with President Xi concerns central to the Philippine Sea which include the ruling ...
- September 2, 2019