Browsing Aquatic News Index by Place "Mabini Reef"

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    • Aquino, Vietnam PM may tackle dispute with China 

      Ruiz, JC Bello (Manila Bulletin, May 18, 2014, on page 1-18)
      Territorial disputes with China may be on top of the agenda when President Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung meet in Manila this week, Malacañang said yesterday. The meeting between the two leaders comes in the wake of the ...

    • Beijing permanently stations rescue ship in spartlys 

      Mangosing, Frances G.; Avendaño, Christine O.; Pazzibugan, Dona Z. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 3, 2018, on page A6)
      China is stationing a search and rescue ship on its man-made island on Philippine-claimed Zamora Reef in the Spratly archipelago, in a “gray zone tactic” to assert its ownership of the disputed feature in the South China ...

    • China builds ports, helipads on Spratly islands 

      Laude, Jaime (The Philippine Star, January 12, 2015, on page 1-11)
      China’s reef reclamation and development projects in the disputed Spratly islands in the West Philippine Sea last year have progressed by leaps and bounds, and security officials expect them to be turned into man-made ...

    • 'China fired flares at PH sea patrols in June' 

      (Manila Standard, August 21, 2021, on page A2)
      China has fired flares to repel Philippine patrol ships in the West Philippine Sea on at least five instances in June, the military’s Western Mindanao Command said Friday. WestMinCom’s Lt. Col. Bill Pasia, in an online ...

    • China has taken P9.7 trillion in reefs, fish - and counting 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, February 17, 2021, on page 9)
      The CCP is stepping up sea aggression. Seven Philippine reefs have been landfilled into Chinese island-garrisons. From there gunboat-backed Chinese poachers overfish Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal and mineral-rich Recto (Reed) ...

    • China putting up new structures in Spratlys; it's ours, says Beijing 

      Reyes, Victor; Hachero, Ashzel (Malaya, May 15, 2014, on page A13-B6)
      The Department of National Defense yesterday said China has been putting new structures at Johnson South Reef or Mabini Reef in the Spratlys. It is known by the Chinese as Chigua. This activity contravenes the spirit of ...

    • China reef ‘reclamation’ seen 

      Delavin, Imee Charlee C. (BusinessWorld, May 16, 2014, on page S1/12)
      The Philippines yesterday released photographs to back its claim that China was reclaiming land on a disputed reef in the South China Sea in an apparent effort to build an airstrip. Manila warned on Wednesday that China ...

    • China warns US on sea patrols in disputed sea 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP); Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 16, 2015, on page A1-A19)
      Chinese media on Thursday slammed the United States for "ceaseless provocations" in the South China Sea and said China's military should be "ready to launch countermeasures." In a rebuff to China on Tuesday, US Defense ...

    • The Mabini Reef 

      Arcilla, Rey O. (Malaya, May 27, 2014, on page B4)
      The government says it will exhaust all diplomatic and legal means to prevent China from turning Mabini Reef into another Mischief Reef. As I said in my last column, web should do as Vietnam has done in the disputed Paracels ...

    • 'Most Pinoys reject Rody's WPS policy' 

      Inquirer Research (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 12, 2019, on page A6)
      There is a growing clamor for the government to resolve the territorial conflict in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), with an overwhelming support among Filipinos for seizing back Philippine reefs occupied by China, results ...

    • PH, Indonesia sign sea border pact 

      Pañares, Joyce Pangco; Fabunan, Sara Susanne D. (Manila Standard, May 24, 2014, on page 1-2)
      Indonesia and the Philippines on Friday signed three agreements, including a historic document on the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone boundaries of both countries in the Mindanao Sea and in the Celebes Sea. ...

    • Photos reveal stages of China reclamation at reef 

      Lee-Brago, Pia; Laude, Jaime; Diaz, Jess; Dangcalan, Danny (The Philippine Star, May 16, 2014, on page 10)
      The Philippines released yesterday several photographs showing different stages of reclamation work being done by the Chinese on Mabini (Johnson South) Reef, apparently in preparation for construction of an airstrip. In a ...

    • Reclamation on Mabini reef 

      Reuters; Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) (Manila Bulletin, May 16, 2014, on page 4)
      The DFA said China was reclaiming land on the disputed reef and appeared to be building an airstrip. The DFA spokesman told Reuters that China has been moving earth and materials to Mabini Reef in the Spratlys and reclaiming ...