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Carpio to Duterte, AFP: defend Panatag Shoal
Supreme Court Senior Justice Antonio T. Carpio said yesterday that the Armed Forces headed by President Duterte as commander-in-chief are constitutionally mandated to defend Scarborough or Panatag Shoul as part of the ...
- March 21, 2017
Official warns of military purpose in S. China Sea reclamation
A top Japanese defense official warned Monday that China has a military purpose in its creation of islands in the South China Sea, citing the possibility of Beijing declaring an air defense identification zone, or ADIZ, ...
- December 16, 2015
PH, China to tackle sea row
The Philippines and China have agreed to hold the next round of dialogue to manage the dispute in the South China Sea (SCS) and explore areas of cooperation in the second half of the year. The bilateral consultation mechanism ...
- July 12, 2017
Senate to probe China's militarization in Spratlys
After prodding by the Senate minority bloc, the Senate foreign relations committee will finally hold a public hearing on the controversial militarization by China of parts of the Spratly island chain legally owned by the ...
- June 16, 2018
Chinese envoy appeals for patience over SCS issues
Amid the territorial dispute in the South China Sea, Beijing's top envoy in Manila stressed China's commitment to peace and stability saying China will not "take the first shot" as it adheres firmly to the policy of a ...
- July 31, 2019
China welcomes Russell's comments on South China Sea
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said June 23 that the South China Sea issue is not and should not be one between China and the United States. Spokesman Lu Kang made the remarks while responding to a question on ...
- June 30, 2015
US forcing China to accelerate South China Sea Deployments
China’s top newspaper, decrying Washington as a trouble-maker, said on Monday U.S. moves in the South China Sea like last week’s freedom of navigation operation will only cause China to strengthen its deployments in the ...
- January 23, 2018
Massive effort to remove Navy flagship from shoal
All vessels of the military’s Western Command have been mobilized in the operation to remove Philippine Navy (PN) flagship BRP Gregorio del Pilar which ran aground in Hasa-Hasa (Half Moon) Shoal in Palawan Wednesday night. ...
- September 1, 2018
PH, Vietnam navies play sports on South China Sea Island.
Philippine and Vietnamese navies have been playing soccer, volleyball and tug-of-war games together on South China Sea Island, the latest get-together by two countries concerned with Chinese assertiveness in the disputed ...
- June 27, 2017
South China Sea arms race (1)
If there's anybody to blame for a militarily aggressive Japan, it is nobody else but China.
For the last 70 years, Japan had remained focused on protecting itself. When China unilaterally claimed the entire South China ...
- September 25, 2015