Browsing The Philippine Star by Author "Bondoc, Jarius"

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    • Back out from debate projected Duterte as loser, Carpio as hero 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, May 12, 2021, on page 7)
      Carpio’s research helped win in July 2016 international arbitration for the Philippines. The Hague court outlawed Beijing’s sea claims. China and Duterte belittled the ruling. Beijing in August 2017 blockaded a ninth ...

    • Cabinet gagged on China; ex-generals assert sea rights 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, May 19, 2021, on page 9)
      President Duterte banned his Cabinet on Monday from talking about sea disputes amid months of China’s escalating incursions. “This is my order now to the Cabinet, and to all and sundry talking for the government, to refrain ...

    • China has taken P9.7 trillion in reefs, fish - and counting 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, February 17, 2021, on page 9)
      The CCP is stepping up sea aggression. Seven Philippine reefs have been landfilled into Chinese island-garrisons. From there gunboat-backed Chinese poachers overfish Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal and mineral-rich Recto (Reed) ...

    • China militia around Pag-asa proof of crime vs fishermen 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, April 3, 2019, on page 9)
      The influx of Chinese maritime militia around Palawan’s Pag-asa Island harasses, bullies, and persecutes Filipino fishermen. China’s non-stop illegal reef dredging and artificial island building also degrades the marine ...

    • China’s reef destruction P231.7 B so far: Pay up 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, June 17, 2020, on page 7)
      China owes the Philippines P231.7 billion for continuing reef destruction and poaching since 2013. With the UN court holding Beijing liable for ecological damage, the Philippines can exact indemnity. China state assets in ...

    • Chinese vessel identified; Benham mission bared 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, April 3, 2017, on page 13-14)
      The China ship that crisscrossed Benham Rise for months studied not just the undersea plateau within Manila’s authority. It also proceeded to the waters off Samar and Siargao Island, apparently in search of submarine passage ...

    • Coast Guard duty: interdict Chinese militia, escort Filipinos 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, April 16, 2021, on page 7)
      It’s time to interdict Chinese poachers in the Philippines’ western exclusive economic zone. About 240 trawlers are pillaging Pagkakaisa (Union) Bank and Kalayaan Islands municipality of Palawan. Millions of kilos of ...

    • Dangerous to ignore China's 'gray operations' - expert 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, July 20, 2020, on page 5)
      Consider these three incidents: • June 9, 2019 midnight, Recto Bank off Palawan: a speeding China steel-hulled maritime militia launch trained its lights on an anchored Filipino wooden fishing boat, rammed and sunk it, ...

    • Don’t fear to collect P231.7 B for China reef destruction 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, June 19, 2020, on page 9-10)
      Filipinos can seek redress from the UN for China’s reef devastation and poaching in the West Philippine Sea. Seizing China state assets is rightful if it refuses to pay P231.7-billion damages so far. Filipinos must not ...

    • How much will China fish under Duterte deal, Carpio 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, April 30, 2021, on page 9)
      President Duterte allowed the Chinese to fish in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. A “verbal agreement” with President Xi Jinping was made in 2016. Duterte disclosed it only in 2019. That was after a Chinese ...

    • How to rehab Manila Bay- earth lawyer Oposa 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, January 18, 2019, on page 13)
      Twenty years ago this month a band of law students and conscientious citizens filed an ambitious lawsuit to make the government clean up Manila Bay. At the time, Jan. 1999, people already were complaining about the stench, ...

    • Is new Philippine isle in Chinese hands? 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, June 20, 2018, on page 9)
      Sandy Cay is a newly formed isle from sandbars three nautical miles off Pag-Asa, the main part of Palawan’s Kalayaan town. A word war rages between Alejano and Cayetano over China’s reported grab of the isle under the ...

    • It's China that must be sued for sea theft, ruin 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, February 19, 2021, on page 9)
      Malacañang “hopes” no conflict erupts from China’s new coast guard law to fire on foreign vessels in waters it illegally claims. It’s feeble, critics cry. One doesn’t craft foreign policy on wishful thinking, former national ...

    • Law lets China gunboats fire at ships in SCS 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, November 11, 2020, on page 7)
      A new law is to permit China’s coast guards to fire at vessels within its “jurisdictional waters”. This steps up Beijing’s aggression in the South China Sea. The law bolsters China’s bullying. “Jurisdictional waters” ...

    • Locsin wants sea ruling included in SCS code 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, September 2, 2020, on page 7)
      Foreign Sec. Teddy Locsin wants The Hague court ruling part of a code of conduct in the South China Sea. It’s but right. The jurisprudence is maritime in nature. It clarifies and affirms the UN Convention on the Law of the ...

    • Make West Philippine Sea a peace park — earth lawyer 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, July 6, 2018, on page 11)
      China is destroying Philippine coral reefs, a world-renowned Filipino environment lawyer laments. Spawning grounds for the world’s fish need saving. The powerful neighbor must answer for the ruin, says UN-honored ...

    • Navy did not give up Panatag to China former chief clarifies 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, May 26, 2021, on page 7)
      The Philippine Navy did not give up Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal to China in the 2012 standoff. Its warship was ordered out two days after the impasse began that April to resume an original mission in northern Luzon waters. ...

    • Phl leaves joint naval patrols; Palau, Ecuador repel Chinese poachers 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, August 12, 2020, on page 9)
      Filipino soldiers have been withdrawn from joint naval exercises in the West Philippine Sea. President Rody Duterte has limited drills only to territorial seas 12 nautical miles from coast. “[He] has a standing order to ...

    • Phl seen backtracking on sea Code of Conduct 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, August 23, 2017, on page 11)
      The Philippines is slinking from passing an ASEAN-China Code of Conduct in the disputed seas between them. This, when Manila is supposed to lead ASEAN as chair on its 50th year this 2017, an international maritime law ...

    • Plant mangroves, not cancerous fake sand 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, September 11, 2020, on page 9)
      Plant mangroves on the entire 190-kilometer coastline of Manila Bay. That will rehab the murky waters not cancerous artificial white sand on a half-kilometer seafront along Roxas Boulevard, Manila. Alibis for the government’s ...