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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 ...
    • China plays the victim 

      Valte, Abigail (Malaya, June 18, 2019, on page B4)
      I almost choked on my tea while reading a press release from the Chinese Embassy in Manila - whoever wrote this must've had difficulty keeping a straight face. It gave its "account" of events that transpired on June 9, ...
    • China proposes joint probe on Recto Bank incident 

      (Malaya, June 21, 2019, on page B1-B3)
      China yesterday proposed a joint investigation with the Philippines into the ramming of a Filipino fishing boat by a Chinese fishing vessel earlier this month at the Recto Bank in the West Philippine Sea/South China Sea. ...
    • Del Rosario: Joint probe with China won't work 

      (Malaya, June 25, 2019, on page B1-B3)
      Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario yesterday said a joint inquiry by Manila and Beijing into the June 9 sinking of a Filipino fishing boat by c Chinese vessel at the Recto Bank in the South China Sea is a ...
    • DOE: Exploration at West PH Sea still on hold 

      (Malaya, July 22, 2016, on page A3)
      The Department of Energy (DOE) said Philex Petroleum Corp. has sent a formal request to allow it to resume exploration at the West Philippine Sea, but the agency said moratorium on all drilling and exploration works stays. ...
    • Duterte: Collision a 'maritime incident': Says no need to send Navy vessels to Recto Bank 

      Montemayor, Jocelyn; Reyes, Victor; Nonato, Vince (Malaya, June 18, 2019, on page B1-B3)
      President Duterte yesterday downplayed as a "maritime incident" the ramming of the Filipino fishing boat by a Chinese fishing vessel at the Recto Bank in the West Philippine Sea/South China Sea last week, and said there ...
    • Lorenzana wants apology from Chinese boat captain 

      Reyes, Victor; Montemayor, Jocelyn; Nonato, Vince (Malaya, June 20, 2019, on page B1-B3)
      Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana yesterday sought an apology from the captain of the Chinese fishing vessel that rammed and sank a Filipino fishing boat at Recto Bank in the Philippine Sea earlier this month and abandoned ...
    • 'Palace wants details of alleged sinking' 

      Reyes, Victor; Reyes, Jocelyn (Malaya, June 17, 2019, on page B1-B6)
      Defense and military officials have been asked by Malacanang to present to the Cabinet the details of the alleged sinking of a philippine fishing boat by a Chinese vessel at the Recto Bank of the West Philippine Sea last ...
    • Panelo on China deal: I'm echoing the President position 

      Montemayor, Jocelyn (Malaya, July 5, 2019, on page B1-B3)
      Regardless of the opinion of others on the maritime dispute in the West Philippine Sea, including Cabinet members, the Duterte administration has only one stand, and that is the stand of President Dterte, Chief Presidential ...
    • Panelo: 'Everyone got Duterte wrong' 

      Montemayor, Jocelyn (Malaya, June 28, 2019, on page B1-B3)
      "Everyone" misinterpreted and misunderstood President Duterte when he talked about the Chinese fishing in the country's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), Chief Presidential Legal Counsel and concurrent presidential spokesman ...
    • PH ready to cut ties with China: Beijing: It's an 'ordinary maritime accident' 

      Montemayor, Jocelyn (Malaya, June 14, 2019, on page B1-B6)
      President Duterte was "outraged" by an incident involving Filipino and Chinese fishing boats at the Recto Bank in the South China Sea, and government is ready to cut ties with China if the Chinese fishermen are found to ...
    • Photos reveal stages of China reclamation at reef 

      Lee-Brago, Pia; Laude, Jaime; Diaz, Jess; Dangcalan, Danny (The Philippine Star, May 16, 2014, on page 10)
      The Philippines released yesterday several photographs showing different stages of reclamation work being done by the Chinese on Mabini (Johnson South) Reef, apparently in preparation for construction of an airstrip. In a ...