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Help in troubled waters The sea this week offered two faces of the same relationship: one governed by maritime custom and instinctive rescue, the other by contested maps and hardened language. In separate statements issued days apart, Chinese and Philippine authorities found themselves acknowledging cooperation in one stretch of water while disputing reality in another. On Thursday, the Chinese Embassy in Manila publicly expressed gratitude to the Philippine Coast Guard for what it described as timely medical assistance extended to a Chinese national injured while transiting the Basilan Strait.

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‘Tuna King’ pays $3.2M for fish A Japanese sushi entrepreneur paid a record $3.2 million for a giant bluefin tuna Monday at an annual prestigious new year auction in Tokyo’s main fish market, smashing the previous all-time high. Self-styled “Tuna King” Kiyoshi Kimura’s sushi restaurant chain paid the top price for the 243-kilogram fish that was caught off Japan’s northern coast.

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Deep sea mining test set Japan embarks Sunday on what it says is the world’s first bid to tap deep sea rare earths at a depth of 6,000 meters — greater than the height of Mount Fuji — to curb dependence on China. A Japanese deep-sea scientific drilling boat called the Chikyu will set sail for the remote island of Minami Torishima in the Pacific, where surrounding waters are believed to contain a rich trove of valuable minerals.

2026-01-10T00:00:00Z Kabagani, Lade Jean http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12174/18053 2026-08-11T05:40:48Z 2025-08-24T00:00:00Z

Ayungin shoal: AFP draws red line Kabagani, Lade Jean Amid escal­at­ing ten­sions in the West Phil­ip­pine Sea (WPS), Armed Forces of the Phil­ip­pines (AFP) Chief Gen­eral Romeo Brawner Jr. warned that the death of any Filipino in the con­tested waters, par­tic­u­larly near Ayungin Shoal (Second Thomas Shoal), would be considered a ''red line'' that could prompt serious military and diplomatic responses, including potential invocation of the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) with the Unuted States.

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