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No urgency to explore in West PHL Sea while pandemic depresses prices — academic
Weak oil prices during the pandemic serve as a disincentive to joint exploration with China in the West Philippine Sea, a maritime law expert from the University of the Philippines said. Jay L. Batongbacal, head of the ...
- August 18, 2020
Tensions rising in disputed sea as China, US hold war games
Tensions are rising anew in the West Philippine Sea or the South China Sea, as the United States and China are taking hardline stances and ramping up war games with their respective navies in the disputed waters, with the ...
- July 14, 2020
PHL reports China ship breach of sea regulation
A Philippine government vessel on Sunday reported a recent close distance maneuvering incident involving a China Coast Guard (CCG) ship in Scarborough Shoal. The Philippine Coast Guard said it was the fourth time within a ...
- March 28, 2022
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
PH flag-marked marine buoys affirm our sovereignty in WPS
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has installed five 30-foot-long navigational buoys carrying the Philippine flag in four critical islands in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) to mark its territory and assert the country’s ...
- May 24, 2022
Ministers crafting Code of Conduct in South China Sea
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is more determined to come up with a Code of Conduct at the South China Sea, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). The Code shall be legally binding, DFA ...
- February 23, 2017
Zambales fishers find more dredging devices
Fishermen are towing a kilometer-long dredge floater assembly, hoping to bring it to shore today, after they found it drifting at sea several kilometers from Iba, Zambales, on Friday night. At least 30 fishermen from ...
- August 16, 2015
Security Council Debate: PH takes on China at UN
The Philippines has criticized the massive reclamation being conducted by China on contested islands and waters in the South China Sea, during a United Nations Security Council open debate that was initiated by China. ...
- March 4, 2015
Is Benham on west or east side of Phl?
That kicked up a storm, not only because Filipinos have long considered that shoal just 120 nautical miles off Zambales (and over 600 nm from Hainan) as part of Luzon but also because China’s building it up – like it did ...
- April 4, 2017
Lorenzana: China encroaching on Phl waters
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana countered China’s latest claims of sovereignty over islands and features in the West Philippine Sea yesterday, emphasizing that it is the Chinese who are encroaching on Philippine waters. ...
- April 29, 2021