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Chinese vessels enter 2 more PH islands' waters
After swarming Pag-asa in the Kalayaan Island Group, Chinese vessels believed to be part of China’s maritime militia have been seen close to two other Philippine-occupied islands in the South China Sea. Some of the Chinese ...
- April 18, 2019
'A little accident': Duterte on boat sinking
Speaking for the first time on the June 9 sinking of a Filipino fishing boat by a Chinese vessel, President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Monday described the incident as a “little maritime accident,” and reiterated anew that the ...
- June 18, 2019
PNoy, Del Rosario responsible for PH losing control of Scarborough shoal
The term “lost Scarborough shoal” is debatable. Security officials deny that. Foreign affairs officials will not say that because that would be detrimental to the claim of the Philippines on the shoal which is included in ...
- May 26, 2016
Robredo wants Chinese crew turned over to PH
Vice President Leni Robredo pressed the administration to demand from the Chinese government the turnover of the crew that manned the fishing vessel that rammed the Filipino fishermen's boat F/B Gem-Ver last June 9. She ...
- June 17, 2019
Testing the waters
With the United States and Asean’s affirmation of support for the four-year-old ruling of the United Nations (UN) arbitral tribunal, the Philippines should seize the initiative in “implementing” the decision, at the very ...
- July 19, 2020
Del Rosario lost Panatag to China
The gall of former foreign affairs secretary Albert del Rosario to even open his mouth on the Whitsun Reef brouhaha and to admonish the Duterte administration to do this or that in dealing with China. In an article prominently ...
- April 26, 2021
Gov't to purchase research vessels for use in PH rise
The country will purchase maritime research vessels so it can better assess the resources which can be explored in the undisputed Philippine Rise. Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said this was the consensus reached by ...
- March 7, 2018
'Multilateral approach needed vs China tactics'
The government should now consider a “multilateral approach” to dealing with China’s “bullying” at sea, underlined on Sunday by the sinking of a Filipino fishing boat by a Chinese vessel, which hurriedly sailed away without ...
- June 14, 2019
PH 'agrees to disagree' with China over South China Sea
Malacañang on Tuesday, July 14, 2020, said it will “agree to disagree” with the Chinese government’s refusal to honor the country’s appeal to respect the arbitration ruling that invalidated China’s claim over the South ...
- July 15, 2020
The Chinese invasion
At the beginning of July, or last month, Sen. Leila de Lima immediately raised a red flag (no pun intended) when she read that a Chinese-Filipino had bought the former Island Cove Resort off Kawit, Cavite, and was transforming ...
- August 10, 2019