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Holding ground, building hope on Pag-asa Island: (First of two parts)
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 ...
- June 12, 2020
Zambales fishers buck 'partnership' with China
Fishermen from Zambales province, who were direct victims of harassment in the West Philippine Sea by the Chinese coast guard, have vowed they would not accept any “partnership” agreement with the People’s Republic of ...
- January 16, 2023
China assures PH of Panatag access
Meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leader's Summit here, Chinese President Xi Jinping has assured President Duterte that Filipinos would continue to enjoy free access to traditional fishing ...
- November 21, 2016
PH slams patrols Sino fishers
The Philippines yesterday denounced China’s announced fishery patrols in the Spratlys group of islands, as it asserted its sovereignty over its established maritime boundaries in the disputed West Philippine Sea (South ...
- February 27, 2013
'Balikatan' levels up for PH maritime defense
The Philippines and the United States on Tuesday opened their largest-ever joint military exercises, which will involve rocket bombardment to sink a decommissioned navy ship and simulate the recapture of an island, amid ...
- April 12, 2023
Do more to enforce ruling
Citing loans and investments from China, the President has set aside the ruling, while his Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano has declined to show the “50 to 100” protests that he claimed the Philippines has lodged ...
- July 17, 2018
China offers aquaculture, but fishers won’t bite
The head of a fisherman’s group here likened to a “lollipop” being offered to appease a crying child a Chinese government offer to bring fish-growing technology to local fishermen displaced by a territorial row over ...
- November 14, 2016
Let's go to Panatag, fishers dare Roque
Two vessels of the Chinese Coast Guard are permanently positioned at the mouth of the 150-kilometer-wide Scarborough Shoal (Panatag or Bajo de Masinloc to locals), preventing Filipino fishermen from entering, fishing or ...
- July 15, 2021
What PH fishers after Chinese apology
A month after they received an apology, the fishermen from Mindoro province who were put out of work after a Chinese trawler rammed and damaged their fishing boat in the West Philippine Sea in June have yet to receive ...
- September 29, 2019
Kalayaan mayor urges PH fishers to defy China.
The mayor of Kalayaan town, in the Spratlys, on Friday said he would encourage Filipino fishermen to ignore China’s new rules that require foreign fishermen to seek permission from Chinese regional authorities before ...
- January 11, 2014