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Presidential bets bare stance on WPS issue
Four candidates for president tackled the thomy issue of asserting sovereignty over the West Philippine sea amid China's repeated incursions in the maritime area at Tuesday night's presidential debate hosted by Sonshine ...
- February 17, 2022
No need for shouting match with China - Esperon
The Duterte administration is avoiding a daily “shouting match” with China over the West Philippine Sea but maintained it is protecting the country’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, National Security Adviser Hermogenes ...
- July 22, 2018
Chinese Coast Guard to visit Phl next week
There will be no discussion of the sensitive South China Sea issue with the Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) chief who is scheduled to arrive in Manila tomorrow. His Philippine counterpart emphasized this yesterday, citing the ...
- January 12, 2020
Phl to give Rise undersea features Filipino names
Maritime law expert Jay Batongbacal earlier revealed that China had earned naming rights to five undersea features in what used to be called Benham Rise, a 13-million-hectare submerged continental shelf off Aurora province ...
- February 16, 2018
China does not own the West Philippine Sea: Homage to Justice Antonio Carpio
Justice Carpio gathered a vast array of ancient maps – including ancient Chinese maps – and even official documents of China, and convinced those wise men in the Hague to decide in our favor. The Spratlys are central to ...
- December 1, 2018
Talks with China over sea row urged
The Philippines should engage China in bilateral talks in its efforts to maintain peace and order at the disputed West Philippine Sea, Sen. Francis Escudero said yesterday. Escudero supports the government’s move to bring ...
- May 26, 2015
Otso bets can't use fishing boat to reach Panatag
After formally asking permission from the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), senatorial candidates of the opposition Otso Diretso alliance should now find an “appropriate” vessel that would take them to the disputed Panatag ...
- April 17, 2019
China warns Duterte on SCS: we’ll go to war
Contrary to what critics believe, President Duterte raised with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping the ruling of a UN-backed arbitral court, which trashed Beijing’s claims over the South China Sea. Xi’s response, Duterte ...
- May 20, 2017
Phl NovaSAR to watch over WPS
Avoiding a bloody “shooting war” is neither surrender nor accepting defeat, especially over our country’s sovereignty claims in the disputed South China Sea (SCS), but which we call as our West Philippine Sea (WPS). A ...
- April 23, 2021
Phl eyes provisional relief to stop China reclamation
The Philippine government might seek provisional measures to stop China’s reclamation of the disputed islands in the West Philippine Sea should the arbitration tribunal decide that it has jurisdiction over the case, Justice ...
- July 13, 2015