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PH ramps up monitoring of Chinses vessels
The military has been sending aircraft and ships to monitor the almost 200 Chinese vessels anchored at Julian Felipe Reef in the West Philippine Sea, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said late Saturday. He also said more ...
- March 29, 2021
FVR mission to focus on tourism, fishing
Former President Fidel V. Ramos on Tuesday said he wanted to focus on points of common interest with China such as tourism and commercial fishing as part of efforts to smooth relations with Beijing roiled by the South China ...
- August 10, 2016
Fishermen bear brunt of fishkill as fish prices fall to ₱2/kg
Fishermen are bearing the brunt of the effects of a fishkill in Taal Lake that destroyed at least P190 million worth of tilapia and bangus, and brought prices of other fish from the lake plummeting to as low as P2 per ...
- June 10, 2011
China wants 'de facto' control of sea, says PH
Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario on Sunday urged the Asean to stop China’s “destabilizing activities” in the South China Sea, warning that Beijing was poised to take “de facto control” of the area. At the ...
- April 27, 2015
Mangrove park outside of planned Bulacan airport
A mangrove park that was rehabilitated by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in a town in Bulacan province is far from the proposed 2,500-hectare New Manila International Airport project of San ...
- August 24, 2019
Be careful what you wish for: On call to review PH-US pact
Amid the tumult surrounding Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana’s pledge to review the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT), it is useful to look at the specific charges currently leveled against the MDT by its critics and to identify ...
- March 2, 2019
China on 'combat patrols' over disputed islands
China’s Air Force sent bombers and fighter jets on “combat patrols” near contested islands in the South China Sea, in a move a senior colonel said was part of an effort to normalize such drills and respond to security ...
- August 7, 2016
DFA protests Chinese Navy Ship's intrusion in PH waters
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Monday said it had summoned Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian after a people's Liberation Army-Navy (PLAN) ship illegally entered the Sulu Sea and stayed there ...
- March 15, 2022
A threat to PH sovereignty
China has never had sovereignty over Taiwan. Roque, a former International Law professor, neglects to see this, and his statement is a window to the Duterte administration’s stance on China. However its minions twist it, ...
- May 12, 2020
US officials: China behavior could trigger 'major incident'
China is showing increasingly “aggressive and irresponsible behavior” in the South China Sea which it claims almost in its entirety and it will only be “a matter of time” before its actions trigger a “major incident” in ...
- July 28, 2022