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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 ...
    • 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. ...
    • Not a single island but the whole of Spratlys 

      Tordesillas, Ellen (Malaya, May 30, 2018, on page B4-B5)
      Mischief Reef was lost under the Ramos presidency. Scarborough Shoal was lost under the Benigno Aquino III presidency. The Spratlys was surrendered to China under the Duterte presidency.
    • 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 ...