Browsing by Place "Sabah"

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    • 2 Indonesian fishermen snatched off Sabah 

      Pareño, Roel (The Philippine Star, September 13, 2018, on page 11)
      The military has alerted government troopers in Tawi-Tawi and Sulu over the reported kidnapping of two Indonesian fishermen in the waters off Sabah on Tuesday. “We have alerted our forces at the border,” Lt. Col. Gerry ...

    • Aquino-del Rosario offered Sabah to Malaysia for its support in arbitration case vs. China 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, September 18, 2019, on page A1-A5)
      The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) under President Benigno Aquino 3rd's watch, then headed by Albert del Rosario, practically offered to drop our decades-old claim over Sabah against Malaysia in exchange for Kula ...

    • Carpio: No to war, but assert rights on SCS 

      Requejo, Rey E. (Manila Standard, July 29, 2020, on page A1-A2)
      The Philippines can still assert its sovereign rights over its territories in the South China Sea without going to war, retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio said Tuesday. "Vietnam, Malaysia and ...

    • DFA denies dropping Phl claim to Sabah 

      Lee-Brago, Pia; Frialde, Mike (The Philippine Star, March 31, 2015, on page 2)
      The Philippines has never offered to drop its Sabah claim in exchange for Malaysia’s support for Manila’s arbitration case against China over the West Philippine Sea issue, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said ...

    • DFA to seek advice of Del Rosario, Locsin on PH's Sabah claim 

      Casayuran, Mario (Manila Bulletin, October 2, 2022, on page 7)
      The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) will seek the advice of former DFA secretaries on how to deal with a French Arbitral Court ruling awarding $14.92 billion to the heirs of the Sulu Sultanate on their territorial claim ...

    • 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 ...

    • Filipino fishermen fear backlash after filing of ICC case against Xi 

      Cardinoza, Gabriel; Cabreza, Vincent (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 23, 2019, on page A1-A4)
      Fishermen here on Friday said they feared retaliation from China for the complaint of crimes against humanity filed against Chinese President Xi Jinping by two former Philippine officials in the International Criminal Court ...

    • Is PH dropping Sabah claim?: Lawmakers demand explanation, but Palace disputes report 

      Luci, Charissa; Kabiling, Genalyn (Manila Bulletin, March 31, 2015, on page 1-6)
      Lawmakers asked yesterday the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to explain the reported downgrading of the country’s claim on Sabah in a bid to gain the support of Malaysia for the Philippines’ arbitration case against ...

    • Malaysia zaps PH Sabah claim in note verbale 

      Requejo, Rey E. (Manila Standard, August 30, 2020, on page A1)
      Malaysia, a co-member of the Philippines in the largely economic group Association of Southeast Asian Nations, has once more nixed the Philippine claim to Sabah and dismissed Manila’s “excessive maritime claims” in the ...

    • Otters find new playground on island in Tawi-Tawi 

      Alipala, Julie (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 3, 2020, on page A10)
      They are known as “anjing laut,” the Malay word for “sea dogs,” in neighboring Sandakan, Sabah, according to Tawi-tawi residents who occasionally visit that part of Malaysia. But on Tawi-tawi’s Taganak Island, where the ...

    • Palace: No such Sabah offer 

      Valente, Catherine; Bauzon, Bernice Camille (The Manila Times, March 31, 2015, on page A7)
      Malacañang on Monday dismissed a report that the Philippines has offered to ease its claim on Sabah in return for Malaysia’s support in Manila’s territorial dispute with China. “There is absolutely no basis to such report,” ...

    • Reef row: US plot in its 're-pivot' to Asia 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, April 7, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      US President Joe Biden couldn’t have picked more anti-China officials than US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. The two were at the head of former President Obama’s so-called ...

    • RP carrageenan makers to gain from Indonesian ban on raw seaweed export 

      Aguiba, Melody M. (Manila Bulletin, January 31, 2010, on page B-1-B-3)
      The Philippine' seaweed-carrageenan sector may enjoy an advantage over Indonesia and is even foreseen to have a monopoly of the market as Indonesia plans to ban the export of its raw seaweed by 2012 in an aim to encourage ...

    • Sabah and our other disputes in SCS 

      (Tempo, September 2, 2020, on page 4)
      The Philippines is involved in a number of disputes over territories in lands around the South China Sea (SCS). At the center of our dispute with China is its claim that it owns the entire territory covered by a nine-dash ...

    • Sabah and our other disputes in SCS 

      (Manila Bulletin, September 2, 2020, on page 4)
      The Philippines is involved in a number of disputes over territories in lands around the South China Sea (SCS). At the center of our dispute with China is its claim that it owns the entire territory covered by a nine-dash ...

    • Sabah arbitral ruling tackled anew 

      Garner, Jom (Daily Tribune, September 29, 2022, on page A1-A6)
      Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo on Wednesday assured lawmakers that he will look into the legal implications of the recent decision of a French arbitral court to the country’s sovereignty claim over Sabah. “We are ...

    • Sabah at iba pang pinag-aagawan sa SCS 

      (Balita, September 2, 2020, on page 4)
      Sangkot ang Pilipinas sa ilang pinag-aagawang teritoryo na nasa palibot ng South China Sea (SCS). Sentro ng mga sigalot ang sa China na umaangkin sa buong teritoryong sakop ng isang nine-dash line na pumapalibot pababa sa ...

    • Sabah, WPS to be printed on PH passports 

      Gascon, Melvin (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 22, 2020, on page A3)
      A committee in the House of Representatives has approved the substitute bill that requires the printing of the country’s map, including its 320-kilometer exclusive economic zone and Sabah, on the pages of Philippine ...

    • Seized Indonesian fishermen released 

      Jacinto, Al (The Manila Times, April 29, 2022, on page A9)
      Three Indonesian fishermen who were reported kidnapped off Sabah near the southern Philippine border province of Tawi-Tawi have been freed, reports said on Thursday. The trio was reportedly taken by gunmen on April 24 off ...

    • 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, ...