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Asean statement to go easy on China
While Southeast Asian leaders are expected to express “serious concern” over recent developments in the South China Sea during their summit on Saturday, they are likely to avoid directly criticizing China’s “escalation of ...
- April 27, 2017
PH, Indonesia sign sea border pact
Indonesia and the Philippines on Friday signed three agreements, including a historic document on the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone boundaries of both countries in the Mindanao Sea and in the Celebes Sea. ...
- May 24, 2014
Duterte issues gag order on his Cabinet over sea dispute
Philippine President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Monday night barred his Cabinet from talking in public about the country’s sea dispute with China, which some of his ministers had rebuked for its actions in the disputed waterway. ...
- May 19, 2021
Panelo tells Chinese ships to go away
Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo yesterday said Chinese vessels have no business staying around Philippine-occupied islands in the West Philippine Sea/South China Sea and should leave. "If they continue to ...
- April 11, 2019
Second Senate hearing on Benham Rise set March 29
The Senate Committee on Economic Affairs has scheduled to hold its second hearing on the Benham Rise on March 29. Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian, chair of the committee, said the continuation of the March 7 hearing will discuss ...
- March 27, 2017
DFA confronts China envoy
The Department of Foreign Affairs has summoned Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian to protest the presence of Chinese vessels at the Julian Felipe (Whitsun) Reef in the West Philippines Sea. Acting Foreign Affairs Undersecretary ...
- April 14, 2021
Chinese exclusion zone looms in Spratlys?
The United States is worried about the possibility of China declaring an exclusion zone in the South China Sea if it loses in a maritime arbitration case filed by Manila before an international court. Admiral John Richardson, ...
- March 19, 2016
Draft of sea code completed: commitment will make framework for COC in South China Sea binding – Cayetano
Senior officials from China and member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have finalized a draft framework for the Code of Conduct (COC) in the South China Sea. The draft framework was completed ...
- May 20, 2017
Benham Rise trip: Duterte's latest comedy act
China builds a monument on Kagitingan Reef that the Philippines claims as part of its territory in South China Sea and President Duterte announces he will sail to Benham Rise, an underwater plateau east of Luzon that has ...
- May 1, 2018
Energy recommends lifting of ban on West Philippine Sea exploration
The Energy Department officially recommended to the Department of Foreign Affairs the lifting of the moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the West Philippine Sea amid the enhanced relations between China and the ...
- January 4, 2019