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Philippines to defy China fishing rule
Philippine fishermen should ignore a Chinese rule requiring foreign fishing vessels to secure permission to enter much of the South China Sea, Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said yesterday. The rule was passed in November ...
- January 17, 2014
220 Chinese vessels swarm Phl reef in WPS
About 220 Chinese maritime militia vessels were spotted within the West Philippine Sea earlier this month, according to the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea (NTF-WPS), prompting the Philippines to file a ...
- March 22, 2021
US warship sails near South China Sea reef
China on Thursday accused the US of trespassing after an American warship sailed near a reef claimed by Beijing in the South China Sea, the first such operation by President Donald Trump’s administration in the disputed ...
- May 26, 2017
Australia plans Chinese naval exercise in disputed seas
Australia said it would continue scheduled live-fire naval exercises with China, even after close ally the United States sent a warship into disputed South China Sea waters this week. On Tuesday, Washington sent its USS ...
- October 30, 2015
China warns vs cradle of war
China warned its rivals Wednesday against turning the South China Sea into a "cradle of war" and threatened to establish an air defense zone there, after its claims to the strategically vital waters were declared invalid. ...
- July 14, 2016
US B-52s fly over South and East China Seas
US B-52 bombers have recently conducted transit operations in the South China Sea and East China Sea, the Pentagon said Wednesday, amid soaring tensions with Beijing over trade tariffs. Late Tuesday the heavy bombers ...
- September 28, 2018
Hanoi to Beijing: Pull out missiles
Vietnam has requested China to withdraw its weapons from disputed territory in the South China Sea, while security experts have urged the Philippine government to upgrade the country’s defenses in the Spratly archipelago ...
- April 10, 2018
PH hits China's lighthouses in two disputed reefs
The Philippines on Monday strongly criticized two lighthouses China constructed in the disputed West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), charging that they were covert mean of enforcing Beijing's claims to the disputed waters. ...
- October 20, 2015
US warns China over missiles deployed on 3 PH reefs
The White House has warned that China would face “consequences” for its military buildup in contested waters in the western Pacific following reports that the Chinese had installed missiles on three disputed reefs in the ...
- May 5, 2018
‘Pag-asa Island is ours’
The Department of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday issued a strong statement dismissing the claim of Chinese Ambassador Zhao Jianhua that the Philippines’ planned improvement works at Pag-asa Island would be illegal. “Pag-asa ...
- May 3, 2017