Browsing by Place "Kalayaan Island Group (KIG)"

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    • Arbitration 'award': A P1-billion useless piece of paper 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, May 7, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      President Duterte was absolutely correct when he remarked the other night that the “award” (i.e., ruling) of the arbitration suit that the Aquino 3rd administration brought against China in 2013 was a useless “piece of ...

    • At last, the only rational policy for our disputes in the Spratlys: Fortify our islands and reefs there! 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto (The Manila Times, June 1, 2018, on page A1-A6)
      The opposition’s allegation that President Duterte has been kowtowing to China on our territorial disputes is unadulterated hogwash, so grossly ignorant of what sovereignty in the South China Sea entails. After four ...

    • Carpio: China's naming of sea features doesn't mean sovereignty 

      Lee-Brago, Pia (The Philippine Star, May 8, 2020, on page 7)
      China’s naming of features in the South China Sea, including islands in the Philippine-held Kalayaan Island Group (KIG), does not matter since names of the geologic features do not determine sovereignty, retired Supreme ...

    • Carpio: China’s naming of sea features doesn’t mean sovereignty 

      Lee-Brago, Pia (The Philippine Star, May 8, 2020, on page 7)
      China’s naming of features in the South China Sea, including islands in the Philippine-held Kalayaan Island Group (KIG), does not matter since names of the geologic features do not determine sovereignty, retired Supreme ...

    • China ships use water cannon vs Phl supply boats 

      Lee-Brago, Pia; Felipe, Cecille Suerte; Romero, Alexis; Villanueva, Ralph Edwin; Ramirez, Robertzon (The Philippine Star, November 19, 2021, on page 1-6)
      The Philippines yesterday condemned in the “strongest terms” an incident on Tuesday wherein three Chinese Coast Guard vessels “blocked and water cannoned” two Philippine boats on their way to transport food supplies to ...

    • Emerging 'tinderbox': PHL defies China's reported 'fishing ban' in disputed WPS, including Scarborough 

      Acosta, Rene (BusinessMirror, May 8, 2021, on page A1)
      Defense and military authorities are bracing for a possible escalation of tensions anew between China and the Philippines amid the raging territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) that could raise the specter ...

    • Exploiting arbitration ruling, Malaysia claims most of our Kalayaan Island Groups 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, August 12, 2020, on page A1-A5)
      What did former President Benigno Aquino 3rd, his Foreign Affairs secretary Albert del Rosario and his solicitor general Florin Hilbay do when they brought the arbitration suit against China before the Permanent Court of ...

    • Locsin files protest vs new China Coast Guard Law 

      Mercene, Recto; Fernandez, Butch (BusinessMirror, January 28, 2021, on page A12-A2)
      The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday filed a diplomatic protest over China’s new law allowing its Coast Guard to fire on foreign vessels. “After reflection I fired a diplomatic protest. While enacting law ...

    • More patrols bar intrusions 

      Roson, Jhon; Locus, Sundy; Blancaflor, MJ (Daily Tribune, May 14, 2021, on page A1-A2)
      Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar is batting for a bigger presence of local law enforcers in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) to protect the country’s waters from intrusion by foreign ships. Eleazar ...

    • 'Remember Recto Bank sinking' 

      Lee-Brago, Pia; Punongbayan, Michael (The Philippine Star, June 10, 2020, on page 4)
      A year after the ramming and sinking of a Filipino fishing boat by a Chinese vessel in Recto Bank, former foreign affairs chief Albert del Rosario is urging Filipinos not to forget the incident or surrender to China’s ...

    • Testing the waters 

      Acosta, Rene (BusinessMirror, July 19, 2020, on page A1-A2)
      With the United States and Asean’s affirmation of support for the four-year-old ruling of the United Nations (UN) arbitral tribunal, the Philippines should seize the initiative in “implementing” the decision, at the very ...

    • Testing the waters 

      Acosta, Rene (BusinessMirror, July 19, 2020, on page A1-A2)
      With the United States and Asean’s affirmation of support for the four-year-old ruling of the United Nations (UN) arbitral tribunal, the Philippines should seize the initiative in “implementing” the decision, at the very ...

    • VFA up for renegotiation; Rody gags officials on WPS 

      Romero, Alexis; Romero, Paolo; Lee-Brago, Pia (The Philippine Star, May 19, 2021, on page 2)
      The Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the US is up for renegotiation, President Duterte said, as he maintained that his administration has veered away from a proWest foreign policy to avoid “trouble.” At a meeting of ...

    • Yellow silent on Malaysian grab of PH territory 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, August 10, 2020, on page A1-A5)
      The Yellows keep ranting that President Duterte hasn’t continued to quarrel with the superpower China to assert our sovereign rights in our exclusive economic zone — ignorant of, or rejecting the fact that not just China, ...