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    • China starts operating lighthouses on disputed maritime territories 

      Associated Press (AP) (Manila Bulletin, October 11, 2015, on page 12)
      China has started operating two lighthouses on a reef on a disputed island chain in the South China Sea, a state news agency reported, amid rising concerns among the US and China's neighbors about Beijing's maritime ...
    • Conflict stops PH from exploring oil in WPS 

      Casayuran, Mario; Rosario, Ben R. (Manila Bulletin, June 19, 2018, on page 2)
      The territorial dispute with China is preventing the Philippines from exploring oil and gas in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), Senator Sherwin Gatchalian pointed out yesterday. Gatchalian, who chairs the Senate Committee ...
    • Japan conducts first submarine drill in disputed sea-reports 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Bulletin, September 18, 2018, on page 1-4)
      Japan has carried out its first submarine drill in the South China Sea, a newspaper said Monday, a move that could provoke Beijing which claims most of the disputed waters. Submarine Kuroshio on Thursday joined three ...
    • Leave PH Rise alone – Duterte 

      Kabiling, Genalyn D. (Manila Bulletin, February 7, 2018, on page 1-6)
      Insisting the Philippine Rise is ours, President Duterte is putting a stop to the marine research and other exploration activities by foreign groups in the area. The President has decided that only Filipinos would be allowed ...
    • New warning issued on climate change 

      (Manila Bulletin, January 28, 2016, on page B-9)
      According to scientists and environmentalist, the risk remains that the continued development of carbon-rich deposits around the world will harm the planet, increasing temperatures and negating all efforts at mitigating ...
    • The ocean is dying (2) 

      Mercene, Floro (Manila Bulletin, May 26, 2017, on page 12)
      There were many factors that caused the death of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) but among them were drilling for oil and mining and the death blow was global warming. The uncontrolled use of fossil fuels such as carbon, oil, ...
    • PH can find way to make joint exploration of seas with China constitutional - Recto 

      Casaruyan, Mario B. (Manila Bulletin, July 29, 2017, on page 4)
      Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto threw yesterday his support behind moves of Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Alan Peter S. Cayetano to find a “constitutionally-compliant win-win arrangement” between ...
    • ‘PH must impose presence in Benham Rise’ 

      Torregoza, Hannah L. (Manila Bulletin, April 4, 2017, on page 2)
      The Duterte administration should consider setting up floating terminals in Benham Rise as part of its strategy to assert ownership and sovereign rights over the disputed undersea region. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, ...
    • PH-China oil, gas exploration deal off to good start - Recto 

      Casayuran, Mario (Manila Bulletin, November 25, 2018, on page 1-8)
      Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto said yesterday the Philippines-China oil and gas exploration deal is off to a good start. Recto anchored his positive outlook on this agreement on a joint statement of Acting ...
    • Plan to protect Benham Rise urged 

      Aben, Elena (Manila Bulletin, March 13, 2017, on page 4)
      Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto is calling on the Duterte administration to come up with a comprehensive strategy to protect Benham Rise from foreign incursion. Recto was reacting to reports of a Chinese survey ...
    • resumption of west PH Sea oil, gas explorations pushed 

      Quismorio, Ellson A. (Manila Bulletin, November 21, 2016, on page 3)
      A member of Congress has urged the Department of Energy (DOE) to reactivate the oil and gas exploration ventures in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) which were temporarily suspended in 2015 due to the country’s territorial ...
    • Sea level rise accelerating 

      (Manila Bulletin, February 15, 2018, on page B8)
      Melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are speeding up the already fast pace of sea level rise, new satellite research shows. At the current rate, the world's oceans on average will be at least 2 feet (61 centimeters) ...
    • Speaker favors joint sea exploration: China interest in WPS gains key support in PH Congress 

      Luci, Charissa M. (Manila Bulletin, January 4, 2017, on page 1-4)
      Speaker Pantaleon “Bebot” Alvarez threw yesterday his full support to the Philippine government’s efforts to seriously study its possible joint partnership with China in the exploration of natural resources in the West ...
    • US should encourage code of conduct in South China Sea 

      Mabasa, Roy C. (Manila Bulletin, September 7, 2012, on page 4)
      Washington should more publicly support efforts to get China and the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to engage and conclude a binding code of conduct in the South China Sea, a Filipino-American senior ...
    • WPS gas bonanza eyed for sovereign fund 

      (Manila Bulletin, December 12, 2022, on page B-1)
      A senior member of Congress wants all future national government royalties from forthcoming offshore natural gas projects in the West Philippine Sea to be put in the Maharllika Investment Fund (MIF) the proposed state-sponsored ...