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China denies designs on Scarborough Shoal
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday said the government is maintaining a “close watch” on developments in the South China Sea, as Manila awaits Beijing’s clarification on its reported plan to further build ...
- March 23, 2017
Historically courageous people toadying up to China
If he hasn’t acquired one yet, perhaps someone should give Rodrigo Roa Duterte a Jetski so he can fulfill his campaign promise to ride one to the Spratleys where he would plant a Filipino flag. So far, our president has, ...
- June 26, 2019
Senate to tackle Benham Rise bill
A Senate committee will hold a public hearing this Wednesday on Benham Rise, including a proposed bill on developing that area. To be tackled in the hearing is Senate Bill No. 312, or the proposed Benham Rise Development ...
- March 27, 2017
Other threats off our coastal waters
China's territorial expansion in the South China Sea, illegal poaching by Chinese and other foreign fishers in Philippine internal waters, and piracy in Southeast Asian waters are driving the Philippine government to focus ...
- January 8, 2015
US cautions on 'egregious' rules in disputed sea
Some countries appear to view freedom of the seas as “up for grabs” in the South China Sea, imposing superfluous warnings and restrictions that threaten stability, a US Navy commander said on Tuesday in comments apparently ...
- October 7, 2015
Duterte: 'Our duty' with China to use 'our seas'
President Rodrigo R. Duterte returned to the Philippines on Sunday after a “highly successful” official visit to China for the Second Belt and Road Forum, Malacañang said. Mr. Duterte also said at Session III of the Leaders’ ...
- April 29, 2019
PHL should raise sea row as ASEAN chair - think tank
A think tank in a statement on Thursday said the Philippines “should leverage on its chairmanship of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) this year to put on the spotlight Southeast Asia’s most pressing ...
- April 21, 2017
Colonizing the Spratlys, destroying our food and ecological balance
Although the world, because of international media emphasis seems to see only “freedom of navigation” as the crucial issue on the South China Sea disputes, buried underneath all the occasional political noise on the ...
- January 4, 2017
Chinese clam-harvesting in disputed waters seen anew, US think tank says
China has deployed anew clam-harvesting fleets to the South China Sea in the last six months, including in Scarborough Shoal, according to American-based think-tank Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI). “These ...
- May 22, 2019
Territorial spat turns in Philippines' favor: capital flows shift away from China -Bank of America
Japan's so-called "Abenomics" and its territorial row with China have prompted a shift in Japanese money away from the world's second largest economy and into the Philippines and its Southeast Asian neighbors, according ...
- May 16, 2014