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President to visit ph rise launch research study
President Rodrigo Duterte will visit Benham Rise on May 15-16 to celebrate the first anniversary of his renaming the underwater land mass Philippine Rise. While at Philippine Rise, the President will also lead the launching ...
- May 9, 2018
Filipino fishers back from Panatag Shoal with big catch
After being chased away by a Chinese Coast Guard vessel from the Scarborough Shoal days earlier, fisherman Gil Bauya and his crew of eight were sailing home when they passed a fishing boat anchored off the rich fishing ...
- October 30, 2016
PH urged to rethink China ties
The Philippines should rethink relations with China following reports Beijing was planning to build a radar station on Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal off the coast of Zambales, Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio ...
- March 19, 2017
Vietnam protests Beijing's 'fishing ban' in South China Sea
Vietnam protested on Friday what it called China’s unilateral fishing ban in the disputed South China Sea from May 1 to Aug. 16, weeks after it said Vietnamese boat had been rammed by a Chinese maritime vessel. “Vietnam ...
- May 9, 2020
Filipino fishermen are back in Panatag
Filipino fishermen do not know for sure, but eight groups of fishermen from Zambales province entered Panatag Shoal on Wednesday without interference from the Chinese Coast Guard, which had been blockading the rich fishing ...
- October 28, 2016
Fishery deal a chance to solve sea row–Angara
Pursuing joint fishery agreements with China is a “window of opportunity” for peacefully resolving the Philippines’ dispute with its increasingly powerful neighbor over territories in the West Philippine Sea. This is part ...
- January 12, 2014
EX-DFA Chief calls for next strategy to press Beijing on sea row
The Philippine government should keep on raising with China the issue of the 2016 arbitral award that nullified Beijing's overreaching claims on the West Philippine Sea, former Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said on ...
- September 1, 2019
No guarantee China will honor code of conduct
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said China’s agreement to the general framework of the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea was not enough guarantee of Beijing’s commitment to peacefully settle disputes in the ...
- August 20, 2016
Slow boat from China
Apparently, President Duterte likes to use his strategic skills, for which he acquired a reputation during his long tenure as mayor of Davao City, to keep his own government off balance. Take the prolonged presence of ...
- March 17, 2017
We didn't lose an inch of territory, says PH ambassador
The Philippines’ ambassador to China on Wednesday rejected concerns that the Duterte administration’s decision to shelve the arbitral ruling won over China a year ago would compromise the country’s claims in the West ...
- July 13, 2017