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Chinese vessels enter 2 more PH islands' waters
After swarming Pag-asa in the Kalayaan Island Group, Chinese vessels believed to be part of China’s maritime militia have been seen close to two other Philippine-occupied islands in the South China Sea. Some of the Chinese ...
- April 18, 2019
The Chinese invasion
At the beginning of July, or last month, Sen. Leila de Lima immediately raised a red flag (no pun intended) when she read that a Chinese-Filipino had bought the former Island Cove Resort off Kawit, Cavite, and was transforming ...
- August 10, 2019
Carpio says Du30 can't compel foreign ships to seek permission
President Duterte cannot compel foreign ships to ask first for permission before passing through Philippine waters, Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio said on Thursday. Carpio said that the United Nations ...
- August 23, 2019
Duterte admin asked to heed SC order protecting PH reefs
President Rodrigo Duterte and other government officials must enforce the Supreme Court’s writ of kalikasan order directing them to protect and rehabilitate the marine environment in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), former ...
- May 5, 2019
High court orders gov't to protect China-occupied PH reefs in WPS
The Supreme Court on Friday issued a special order for the protection and rehabilitation of destroyed marine environment in three Philippine features in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) that were either seized by China or ...
- May 4, 2019
Locsin says 60 protests sent to China over WPS
The Philippine government has “fired off” a total of 60 diplomatic protests against the incursions of China on the West Philippine Sea (WPS), Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin told lawmakers on Wednesday. But Locsin rejected ...
- September 5, 2019
Del Rosario: The worst foreign affairs secretary in our history
It is disgusting for former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario to use a diplomatic passport thinking this would allow him to slip unnoticed into a country whose head of state he accused of crimes against humanity, ...
- June 26, 2019
Carpio: Duterte-Xi fishing deal unconstitutional and lopsided
The agreement between President Duterte and China’s President Xi Jinping allowing Chinese fishermen into the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is not only unconstitutional but also lopsided and could lead to a rapid ...
- July 6, 2019
Who manipulated fishermen? Palace points to Diokno, IBP
Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Thursday said human rights lawyer Jose Manuel “Chel” Diokno and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) manipulated a group of fishermen into petitioning for an environmental ...
- July 12, 2019
China insists ‘Spratlys ours,’ asserts Sino fishers’ ‘rights’
China dismissed anew Philippine claims to parts of the Spratlys in the South China Sea, saying the entire island chain has been Chinese territory for thousands of years. China’s position was stated on Thursday by Chinese ...
- April 13, 2019