Browsing Malaya by Place "Aurora"

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    • Benham Rise trip: Duterte’s latest comedy act 

      Tordesillas, Ellen (Malaya, April 30, 2018, on page B4)
      China builds a monument on Kagitingan Reef that the Philippines claims as part of its territory in South China Sea and President Duterte announces he will sail to Benham Rise, an underwater plateau east of Luzon that has ...

    • Benham Rise: Wealth under the sea 

      Icamina, Paul (Malaya, July 29, 2015, on page A3)
      There is wealth out there, for the taking. But diving is daunting, starting at 15 meters deep. In 2011, the Philippines acquired Benham Rise, a "massive" area east of Luzon. "We have access to resources in an area bigger ...

    • Justice Carpio's Benham Rise 101 

      Tordesillas, Ellen (Malaya, March 15, 2017, on page B4-B5)
      The notes by Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio on Benham Rise are very useful as the 13-million-hectare undersea region east of Luzon is in the news with the disclosure last week by Defense Secretary ...

    • Policy on China probed today 

      Lopez, JP (Malaya, August 13, 2018, on page B1-B2)
      Senators are expected to grill Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano today, as the Senate foreign affairs and defense committees start their foreign policy audit on the Duterte Administration in relation to the ...

    • That's why he's visiting Philippine Rise on May 16 

      Montemayor, Jocelyn (Malaya, May 3, 2018, on page B1)
      President Duterte said he plans to visit the Philippine Rise soon in connection with the anniversary of the intercontinental shelf that was awarded to the country by the United Nations in 2012. The President on May 16, ...