Browsing Aquatic News Index by Place "Spratly Island"
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Aquino-del Rosario offered Sabah to Malaysia for its support in arbitration case vs. China
(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 ... -
Arbitration suit vs China: Aquino 3rd regime and the US' big blunder
(The Manila Times,December 27, 2021 , on page -A5)This is the second instalment (the first was published last Friday) of Chapter 9 of my book, Debacle: The Aquino Regime's Scarborough Fiasco and the South China Sea Arbitration Deception, which discusses this development ... -
Beijing says it drove away US warship from Spratlys
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,November 30, 2022 , on page A9)China's military said on Tuesday it drove away a US guided-missile cruiser that "illegally intruded" into waters near the South China Sea's Spratly Islands, an assertion the US navy disputed. 'The actions of the US military ... -
Biden backs Trump rejection of China sea claim
(The Philippine Star,July 13, 2021 , on page 2)The Biden administration on Sunday upheld a Trump-era rejection of nearly all of China’s significant maritime claims in the South China Sea. The administration also warned China that any attack on the Philippines in the ... -
Blowback: China's artificial islands
(The Manila Times,December 24, 2021 , on page A1-A5)The highly respected retired UP professor Clarita Carlos in her Facebook account expressed outrage over the transformation from 2013 to 2015 of the seven reefs in the Spratlys that China has occupied since 1988, into ... -
China defends laser light pointing against PH vessel
(SunStar Philippines,February 15, 2023 , on page 4)Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) spokesperson Wang Wenbin defended the pointing of laser light by their coast guard vessel toward a Philippine ship in waters off Ayungin Shoal. In a press conference, Wang said the ... -
China testing PH resolve to keep Ayungin Shoal
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,June 13, 2022 , on page A2-A5)The latest reported incidents in Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal in the West Philippine Sea illustrate China’s capacity to control the area despite its being occupied by the Philippines through the decrepit Philippine Navy ... -
China won't occupy Spratlys
(Manila Bulletin,December 23, 2022 , on page 1-10)China on Thursday, Dec. 22, said it will not occupy nor reclaim uninhabited islands and reefs of the Spratly Islands as it maintained it “always abides” by a declaration it agreed on with Southeast Asian countries. Mao ... -
China's 'reclamation' in Spratly reefs alarms DFA
(Panay News,December 22, 2022 , on page 11)The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is "seriously concerned" about china's reported reclamation activities in the Spratly Islands' unoccupied reefs in the South China Sea. A Bloomberg article published on Tuesday said ... -
Content of PH protest notes vs China ‘strictly confidential’
(Tempo,April 24, 2020 , on page 3)Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. has directed the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) not to disclose anything about the content of the two diplomatic protests filed by the Philippines against China, saying the ... -
Defense chief flies to disputed island amid feud
(SunStar Philippines,June 11, 2020 , on page 4)The Philippine defense chief and top military officials flew to a disputed island in the South China Sea on Tuesday, June 9, to inaugurate a beach ramp built to allow the “full-blast” development of the territory in a move ... -
DENR verifying reported waste dumping in PHL-claimed parts of South China Sea
(BusinessWorld,July 15, 2021 , on page S1/10)The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is already verifying reports that swarms of Chinese ships anchored in Philippine-claimed areas in the South China Sea are dumping human waste there, a department ... -
DFA chief says China should not be praised over coral restoration
(Panay News,April 23, 2019 , on page 8)Foreign Affairs secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said China should not be praised for restoring coral reefs it previously destroyed. Beijing is "now the poster boy of environmental restoration" in its recovery work in reefs ... -
Du30 extols ‘special ties’ with China
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,June 11, 2020 , on page A3)President Rodrigo Duterte sought stronger ties with China on the 45th anniversary of the two countries’ diplomatic relations on Tuesday and said that threats like the COVID-19 pandemic could push the partnership to “take ... -
A fish-eye view
(The Manila Times,June 18, 2022 , on page A6)CHINA is at it again. Like the North Korean rocket man who fires ICBMs worth millions of dollars at the sea, for no reason at all but to scare his neighbors while his people are starving and remain unvaccinated, China ... -
Group: Pinoys want SCS win enforced
(Manila Standard,May 21, 2022 , on page A2)Eight out 10 Filipinos want to assert the legal victory for the Philippines against China over the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea), according to an independent international and strategic research organization. At ... -
Holding ground, building hope on Pag-asa Island: (First of two parts)
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,June 12, 2020 , on page A1-A6)Chinese ships in their line of vision have become part of the daily life of Filipinos who call this speck of land smack in the middle of the South China Sea home. The island’s name means “hope” in the native tongue, and ... -
Lorenzana: China a bully: 'Nothing new in China's peace remark'
(Malaya,July 31, 2019 , on page B1-B3)Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana yesterday backed survey findings that showed China is the country least trusted by a majority of Filipinos, noting China has been "bullying" the Philippines. China, the Philippines, ... -
'No use of force in South China Sea'
(The Philippine Star,October 18, 2015 , on page 3)China will never "recklessly" resort to the use of force in the South China Sea, a senior Chinese general said yesterday, amid tensions over Beijing's building of islands in the disputed waters. China's relations with ... -
Pag-asa gets upgrade amid China objection
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,June 13, 2020 , on page A3)Beijing had tried to stop it, but a long-imagined development plan in the biggest and most strategically important Philippine-held island in the disputed Spratlys is finally taking shape. As the Philippine Air Force C-130 ...