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22 govt execs to testify in LLDA rehab arbitration
The Philippine government is gearing up for the arbitation of the P6-billion lawsuit that a Belgian company filed against the country before an international tribunal over the scrapped Laguna Lake Rehabilitation Project, ...
- February 18, 2014
Duterte's SCS ruling pitch highlights speech at UNGA
President Duterte’s much-awaited debut before the 75th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) late Tuesday night (early morning Manila time) was marked with a strong affirmation of the Philippines’s rights in the South ...
- September 24, 2020
China denies designs on Scarborough Shoal
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday said the government is maintaining a “close watch” on developments in the South China Sea, as Manila awaits Beijing’s clarification on its reported plan to further build ...
- March 23, 2017
China ‘trespassing’ in WPS
The Philippines on Thursday rejected China’s demand that it remove the grounded BRP Sierra Madre ship from the Ayungin Shoal, saying it was the Chinese who were trespassers in the West Philippine Sea. The statement came ...
- November 26, 2021
Albert del Rosario has no moral authority to scold President Duterte
Former Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario is currently drumming up public animosity against President Rodrigo Roa Duterte over the way the latter is handling the ongoing maritime dispute between the ...
- May 7, 2021
What China fears is democracy
Last Tuesday, Social Weather Stations released the following findings of its new survey of Filipino public opinion about China (SWS July 3-6, 2020 National Mobile Phone Survey—Report No. 3: “Stratbase ADR Institute sponsors ...
- July 18, 2020
A sustainable future for the West Philippine Sea
It takes a foreigner to sound the alarm on the devastation occurring in the West Philippine Sea. For years, the Chinese Communist Party and the Philippine government have downplayed the wreckage happening to the fragile ...
- September 9, 2020
PH says Hague ruling binding; Chinese envoy wants it voided
Malacanang said Wednesday “no one can diminish” the 5-year-old arbitral award that junked Beijing’s sweeping maritime claims to the West Philippine Sea, despite China’s recent remark that the award was a piece of “wastepaper." ...
- July 15, 2021
Historically courageous people toadying up to China
If he hasn’t acquired one yet, perhaps someone should give Rodrigo Roa Duterte a Jetski so he can fulfill his campaign promise to ride one to the Spratleys where he would plant a Filipino flag. So far, our president has, ...
- June 26, 2019
Calida seeks dismissal of kalikasan petition on WPS
Solicitor General Jose Calida has asked the Supreme Court (SC) to dismiss the petition of fishermen seeking to compel the government to protect disputed shoals in the West Philippine Sea where Chinese fishermen have ...
- July 2, 2019