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    • 11-M Pinoys lack clean water access 

      Kabagani, Lade Jean (Daily Tribune, May 9, 2023, on page A3)
      Around 11 million Filipinos are lacking access to clean water based on the estimation of the National Water Resources Board, according to Senator Pia Cayetano on Monday. The lawmaker-who presided the public inquiry on water ...
    • AFP wary vs 'swarming' Chinese vessels 

      Kabagani, Lade Jean (Daily Tribune, December 10, 2022, on page 3)
      The Armed Forces of the Philippines’ Western Command disclosed on Friday that it is already taking action following the “swarming” of Chinese vessels in the West Philippine Sea. Authorities confirmed that the vessels, ...
    • Barrier removal BBM's call - PCG 

      Ayeng, Raffy; Garner, Jom; Kabagani, Lade Jean (Daily Tribune, September 26, 2023, on page A1-A6)
      Dismantling the floating barrier that China installed at Scarborough Shoal or Bajo de Masinloc is a matter for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to decide, a Philippine Coast Guard official said yesterday. Commodore Jay ...
    • China can't make arrests in disputed sea 

      Kabagani, Lade Jean (Daily Tribune, September 10, 2023, on page A2)
      China does not have the “authority or power” to conduct law enforcement operations on waters under the Philippine exclusive economic zone, or EEZ, an official of the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea said. ...
    • China’s claim over Bajo has no basis — Año 

      Kabagani, Lade Jean (Daily Tribune, February 1, 2024, on page A6)
      National Security Adviser Eduardo Año has emphasized that China’s persistent claims over the waters of Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough Shoal) have “no legal basis.” “China’s repeated claims of sovereignty over Bajo de Masinloc ...
    • Go to WPS, AFP tells Pinoy fishers 

      Kabagani, Lade Jean; Piatos, Tiziana Celine (Daily Tribune, September 29, 2023, on page A1-A2)
      The Western Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines is eyeing an increase in Filipino fishermen going to the country's exclusive economic zone in the West Philippine Sea. AFP WesCom chief, Vice Adm. Alberto Carlos, ...
    • Historic trilat puts spotlight on sea spat 

      Piatos, Tiziana Celine; Kabagani, Lade Jean; Garner, Jom (Daily Tribune, April 11, 2024, on page A1-A2)
      President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. flew to the United States yesterday, hoping that the trilateral summit between the United States, the Philippines, and Japan would enhance freedom of navigation in the West Philippine Sea and ...
    • Imported fish sale ban under review 

      Piatos, Tiziana Celine; Kabagani, Lade Jean (Daily Tribune, December 13, 2022, on page A6)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources said on Monday that it is reviewing the rule that says frozen salmon and pompano from other countries can't be sold in the wet markets. BFAR officer-in-charge Demosthenes Escoto ...
    • Phl vessels patrolling WPS 'sufficient' 

      Kabagani, Lade Jean (Daily Tribune, February 1, 2024, on page A3)
      A military official said the Philippine Navy and Philippine Coast Guard have a “sufficient number of vessels” patrolling within the country’s exclusive economic zone in the West Philippine Sea. “We have a sufficient number ...
    • Senate to probe WPS collision 

      Kabagani, Lade Jean (Daily Tribune, October 8, 2023, on page B20)
      Senators want to investigate the fatal collision between a foreign-flagged oil tanker and a local fishing boat in the waters off Agno, Pangasinan, in the West Philippine Sea that resulted in the deaths of three fishermen ...