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DFA slams 'blatant lie' on WPS patrols
Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano yesterday lashed out at Magdalo party-list Rep. Gary Alejano for claiming President Duterte had ordered the military to cease patrols in the West Philippine Sea. Cayetano said ...
- June 11, 2018
Rody open to 3rd party in Recto Bank probe
Amid opposition to a joint investigation with China, President Duterte yesterday expressed willingness to have a third party conduct a probe of the sinking of a Filipino fishing boat after it was hit by a Chinese vessel ...
- June 25, 2019
China will of course merely ignore you
The latest geopolitical development in the tension-filled South China Sea is Beijing’s installation of ballistic missiles launching pads in three atolls in the West Philippine Sea—Zamora, Kagitingan and Panganiban Reefs—all ...
- May 7, 2018
Duterte recalls China warning if PH explores sea for oil
After disclosing his “mutual agreement” with China’s President Xi Jinping that would allow the Chinese to fish within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ), President Duterte reminded Filipinos that Xi had also ...
- June 29, 2019
Philippines leads the way in ‘9-dash-line’ dispute vs China
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is set to forge ahead with finishing the Code of Conduct with China over the South China Sea (SCS) by 2021. Vietnam’s goal for ASEAN to arrive at an agreement with China ...
- May 20, 2020
Solons urge protest over PH reef incident
An opposition lawmaker warned on Wednesday that it was only a matter of time before China deployed warplanes on its artificial islands in Philippine waters, after the Inquirer published surveillance photos showing Chinese ...
- April 19, 2018
Our rights are assured in oil exploration agreement
Acting Chief Justice Antonio T. Carpio has long been vocal in his opposition to the Duterte administration’s inaction on the 2016 ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague rejecting China’s claim ...
- November 28, 2018
China seals area for war games
Beijing will close off access to part of the South China Sea for military drills, Chinese officials said Monday, after an international tribunal ruled against its sweeping claims in the waters. An area off the east coast ...
- July 19, 2016
Yellow silent on Malaysian grab of PH territory
The Yellows keep ranting that President Duterte hasn’t continued to quarrel with the superpower China to assert our sovereign rights in our exclusive economic zone — ignorant of, or rejecting the fact that not just China, ...
- August 10, 2020
Rody's 'friendship'—and PH's territorial row—with China
Filipino fishermen have been the subject of harassment and intimidation by the Chinese since the dispute over the West Philippine Sea erupted. This bullying by the Chinese should stop. Now that President Duterte has ...
- October 5, 2016