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Rody to ban fishing in Panatag lagoon
Filipinos can again fish at Panatag (Scarborough), but President Duterte will soon keep them out of the shoal’s lagoon when he declares it a marine protected area. Filipinos will still be allowed to fish outside the lagoon ...
- November 22, 2016
Change Chinese mindset: ‘West Philippine Sea is not yours’
More Filipinos are likely to back calls for a more assertive government stand against China’s provocative activities in the West Philippine Sea, Supreme Court (SC) Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio said on Friday. ...
- December 16, 2018
Gov't earmarks P.5 B for Phl Rise this year
The government has allocated half a billion pesos this year for various coastal and marine research programs, including those for the Philippine Rise (Benham Rise), Sen. Loren Legarda has said. Legarda, chair of the Senate ...
- February 22, 2018
SC to nat'l gov't: Protect WPS marine environment
Supreme Court (SC) has granted a petition of fishermen and a group of lawyers for the issuance of a Writ of Kalikasan directing the government to actively protect the West Philippine Sea and stop the degradation of itd ...
- May 4, 2019
Losing hearts and minds
As countries scramble to contain the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak that began in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, some governments are still finding time for other pursuits. Last week, the Philippine government ...
- April 30, 2020
DFA launches information campaign on West Phi Sea
The government has launched the second part of a documentary on the West Philippine Sea dispute aimed at further raising local and international awareness of the issue. The documentary is also intended to help rekindle ...
- June 24, 2015
Doublespeak blurs our position on SCS
Was President Duterte informing the United Nations merely for the record, or to lay the basis for an action plan, on the 2016 arbitral award in favor of the Philippines vs China affirming his country’s sovereign rights in ...
- September 29, 2020
Pinoys want China to pay for Phl boat sinking
The Philippine government should take action against the Chinese vessel that sank the boat of Filipino fishermen off the coast of Recto Bank, 34 percent of respondents said in a recent Pulse Asia survey. The latest Ulat ...
- July 27, 2019
Phi won't recognize China air restrictions
The Philippines will not recognize restrictions on air and sea travel set by China in the West Philippine Sea, President Aquino said yesterday. “We will still fly the routes that we fly based on international law and the ...
- May 25, 2015
We need US for South China Sea - Duterte
President Duterte has apparently mellowed even further on his sentiments about the United States, reiterating yesterday he did not seek the pullout of American forces as the Philippines would need its ally in defending the ...
- September 21, 2016