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China mulls South China Sea drills
China proposed joint matritime drills with South East Asian nations in the hotly contested South China Sea in 2016. Beijing is currently hosting an informal meeting for defence minister from the region. China's Defense ...
- October 18, 2015
RP in global effort to save the seahorse
The government-hosted, Tigbauan, Iloilo-based Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC AQD) has also been conducting research on the seahorse. Started in 1996, the SEAFDEC AQD ornamental ...
- September 11, 2000
PH outgunned in China's island-building frenzy
The Armed Forces of the Philippines chief of staff, Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang Jr., looks worried as he surveys the rusted cranes and eroded runway on the tiny island of Pag-asa, now on the front line of a rapidly intensifying ...
- May 14, 2015
Technologization could boost PH agriculture
When it comes to understanding the vital role of technology and innovation in boosting the agriculture sector, newly appointed Agriculture Secretary William Dar is very much abreast of developments. For that and more, he ...
- October 11, 2019
Presidential will needed against China incursions
Smugness, or a misplaced sense of self-satisfaction despite the swelling discontent expressed by various sectors, has generally characterized President Duterte’s administration as it deals, or fails to deal, with two of ...
- April 17, 2021
Occupy Spratly isles? too late
Magdalo Rep. Gary Alejano on Friday ridiculed President Rodrigo Duterte’s vow to deploy troops to unoccupied South China Sea islands and reefs claimed by the Philippines, saying nothing was left to grab in those disputed ...
- April 8, 2017
China asserts power in disputed sea
China still calls the shots at the prime fishing spot and has boosted its fleet there, nine months after an international panel ruled its blockade of the lagoon was illegal. Beijing rejected that ruling by the Permanent ...
- April 11, 2017
PH, Vietnam navies play sports on South China Sea Island.
Philippine and Vietnamese navies have been playing soccer, volleyball and tug-of-war games together on South China Sea Island, the latest get-together by two countries concerned with Chinese assertiveness in the disputed ...
- June 27, 2017
Esperon: PH can't stop China buildup on isles
The government is fully aware that China has nearly completed construction work on three Philippine-claimed reefs in the South China Sea but cannot do anything about it, National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon said ...
- March 30, 2017
House leaders rally behind ‘gentleman’s agreement’ on West Philippine Sea
House leaders rallied behind the proposed “gentleman’s agreement” between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) yesterday to ensure a stable and peaceful West Philippine Sea (South China Sea). Eastern ...
- May 22, 2017