Browsing by Author "Tordesillas, Ellen"

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    • Benham Rise trip: Duterte's latest comedy act 

      Tordesillas, Ellen (The Daily Guardian, May 1, 2018, on page 5)
      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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Carpio: Duterte's statement on passage of foreign ships violates UNCLOS 

      Tordesillas, Ellen (Malaya, August 23, 2019, on page B4)
      Following reports by the military two weeks ago about five Chinese warships passing through Philippine waters, President Duterte last Tuesday issued a statement requiring all foreign vessels to notify Philippine authorities ...

    • Duterte knows China's ultimate goal is control of South China Sea 

      Tordesillas, Ellen (The Daily Guardian, August 23, 2018, on page 5)
      Twice last week, President Duterte complained about China’s activities in the South China Sea--a stark departure from his pandering stand since the start of his presidency. Always, he was all praises for China’s President ...

    • FVR wants to clarify role as special envoy to China 

      Tordesillas, Ellen (Malaya, July 18, 2016, on page B4)
      Former President Fidel V. Ramos said there are some things he has to discuss with President Duterte Before agrees to be latter's special envoy to China. Duterte made the announcement during a tribute to him by his fellow ...

    • Heed Pope Francis' appeal to end culture of waste 

      Tordesillas, Ellen (The Daily Guardian, January 22, 2015, on page 7)
      Zero Waste, according to Aquino’s Proclamation 760, “is a goal that is ethical, economical, efficient and visionary to guide people in changing their lifestyles and practices to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where ...

    • Justice Carpio wants to speak to the Chinese through his eBook 

      Tordesillas, Ellen (Malaya, May 8, 2017, on page B4-B5)
      Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio's hope springs eternal. At the launch of his eBook, “The South China Sea Dispute: Philippine Sovereign Rights and Jurisdiction in the West Philippine Sea,” Carpio said the reason why ...

    • Justice Carpio's Benham Rise 101 

      Tordesillas, Ellen (Malaya, March 15, 2017, on page B4-B5)
      The notes by Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio on Benham Rise are very useful as the 13-million-hectare undersea region east of Luzon is in the news with the disclosure last week by Defense Secretary ...

    • 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.

    • PNoy, Del Rosario responsible for PH losing control of Scarborough shoal 

      Tordesillas, Ellen (The Daily Guardian, May 26, 2016, on page 5-7)
      The term “lost Scarborough shoal” is debatable. Security officials deny that. Foreign affairs officials will not say that because that would be detrimental to the claim of the Philippines on the shoal which is included in ...

    • Roque is best adviser to Duterte on joint exploration with China 

      Tordesillas, Ellen (The Daily Guardian, March 10, 2018, on page 4-5)
      “We have gone beyond determining if there are resources” and “The only issue is now, is it commercially viable,” he said. Roque and Davila were talking about the Joint Marine Seismic Undertaking or JMSU entered into by the ...

    • Ways to make China comply with UN ruling on S. China Sea 

      Tordesillas, Ellen (Malaya, June 24, 2016, on page B4)
      The Philippines is not exactly helpless if the United Nations Arbitral Court decides in favor of the Philippines in its case against China’s nine-dash line map and its transforming into islands, rocks in the Spratlys that ...

    • What the Chinese ship did in Benham Rise 

      Tordesillas, Ellen (Malaya, April 3, 2017, on page B4)
      China did not deny it saying their “vessels for marine research did sail across relevant waters to the northeast of Luzon, the Philippines last year, exercising navigation freedoms and the right to innocent passage only, ...

    • What's going on in Benham Rise? 

      Tordesillas, Ellen (Malaya, January 29, 2018, on page B5)
      The decision of the Duterte government to allow Chinese scientists to do research in Benham Rise, renamed Philippine Rise, a 13-million-hectare undersea region off the provinces of Isabela and Aurora has generated heated ...

    • Who is protecting PH national interest in South China Sea? 

      Tordesillas, Ellen (The Daily Guardian, December 21, 2016, on page 4)
      Sovereignty is the supreme right to the state to command obedience within its territory, as stated in the Constitution, consists "of its terrestrial, fluvial and aerial domains, including its territorial sea, the seabed, ...

    • Why is there a Chinese military vessel in Reed Bank 

      Tordesillas, Ellen (DailyGuardian, June 17, 2019, on page 5)
      Supreme Court Justice Antonio T. Carpio believes that it was not a collision of fishing vessels that happened on June 9 in Reed Bank (Philippine name: Recto Bank; Chinese name: Liyue Tan), 80 nautical miles off Palawan and ...