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'Zero arrests': No illegal fishing in Estancia, Iloilo?
The municipality of Estancia in northern Iloilo is known for its rich fishing grounds that attract poachers even from neighboring provinces and islands. But since January this year, no one has been arrested for illegal ...
- October 24, 2017
What now after Xi's rejection
The recent statement of Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo reported that, as committed, President Duterte was, "steadfast in raising with President Xi concerns central to the Philippine Sea which include the ruling ...
- September 2, 2019
Alarming Chinese incursion
We wish we could believe that a newly completed beaching ramp built by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Pag-asa Island at the West Philippine Sea is really meant to counter the incursion of the Chinese naval ...
- June 15, 2020
Will the world recognize and respect the "West Philippine Sea"?
President Benigno Aquino III's order naming the western side of the Philippine archipelago "West Philippine Sea" provides Philippine officials and the mass media a formal basis to call it by that name, as they have been ...
- September 17, 2012
Establish 'no-take zone' in Spratlys, gov't urged
On the heels of its victory in the arbitration case against China, the Philippines must lead the other claimant states in exploring ways to reinforce the ruling by “improving both the national and regional fisheries ...
- April 17, 2017
Philippines protests Chinese fishing seizures, air warnings
The Philippine government filed a diplomatic protest after Chinese forces seized fishing equipment set up by Filipinos in a disputed shoal in their latest territorial spat in the South China Sea. The Department of Foreign ...
- August 22, 2020
Chinese Navy sets combat drills in South China Sea
China claims most of the South China Sea, a key trade route and home to areas that are believed to hold large quantities of oil and natural gas. Along with China, parts of the South China Sea are subject to competing claims ...
- March 24, 2018
Govt letting China survey Benham Rise 'capitulation'
The Duterte administration was accused on Tuesday by a lawmaker of accommodating the caprices of China in a reprise of what then-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo did. “It can really be seen that [the government has] indeed ...
- January 17, 2018
Carpio disputes allowing Chinese to fish in PH's exclusive economic zone
Supreme Court (SC) Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio cautioned President Duterte on Wednesday, June 26, that allowing Chinese fishermen to fish in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the West Philippine ...
- June 27, 2019
Phl to protest China's maritime rescue center in WPS
The Philippines will protest China’s establishment of a maritime rescue center at the Kagitingan or Fiery Cross Reef once it is verified, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said yesterday. Locsin agreed with ...
- February 3, 2019