Browsing BusinessMirror by Author "Mercene, Recto"

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    • China boat was cleared for shelter, DFA clarifies 

      Mercene, Recto (BusinessMirror, February 3, 2021, on page A12-A2)
      A Chinese research vessel that stayed a few days in Philippine waters had clearance from the Department of Foreign Affairs to seek shelter, owing to bad weather, but not to stay, the DFA clarified on Tuesday, after the ...

    • 'Duterte can still fulfill vow to raise SCS arbitral ruling 

      Mercene, Recto (BusinessMirror, July 15, 2020, on page A8-A4)
      In the last few years of his term, President Duterte can still fulfill his promise to the Filipino people to raise the UN arbitral tribunal award in the Philippines’s case against China on the South China Sea—this time, ...

    • Filipino survivor: Livestock ship with 42 crew sank off Japan coast 

      Mercene, Recto (BusinessMirror, September 4, 2020, on page A3)
      Japanese rescuers were searching Thursday for a livestock ship with 42 crew members on board that a Filipino survivor said sank during rough weather a day earlier off a southern Japanese island, the coast guard said. The ...

    • Locsin files protest vs new China Coast Guard Law 

      Mercene, Recto; Fernandez, Butch (BusinessMirror, January 28, 2021, on page A12-A2)
      The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday filed a diplomatic protest over China’s new law allowing its Coast Guard to fire on foreign vessels. “After reflection I fired a diplomatic protest. While enacting law ...

    • Locsin, Wang eye 'template' in talks on oil, gas in SCS 

      Mercene, Recto (BusinessMirror, November 4, 2020, on page A8-A2)
      Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said on Tuesday he had proposed with his Chinese counterpart a template in the ongoing joint negotiation to exploit oil and gas in the contested waters of the South China Sea ...

    • Milkfish fry shipments seized at airport 

      Mercene, Recto (BusinessMirror, March 10, 2013, on page Retrieved from-http://www.businessmirror.com.ph)
      Airport customs authorities on Sunday seized three shipments of milkfish fry that were unloaded separately from three international airlines from Singapore, Hongkong and Malaysia, at the Paicargo and Miascor bonded warehouse ...

    • US, China spar over O'Brien's remarks on SCS 

      Acosta, Rene; Mercene, Recto (BusinessMirror, November 25, 2020, on page A8-A2)
      The United States is looking for a longer term for its Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the Philippines, even as it gave assurances that its military will remain in the Indo-Pacific region after the end of the Trump ...

    • Verbal row over reef militia sizzles; Duterte, Huang meet 

      Medenilla, Samuel P.; Mercene, Recto (BusinessMirror, March 26, 2021, on page A2-A4)
      The presence of a fleet of Chinese ships in the Julian Felipe Reef were among the issues discussed by President Duterte during his recent meeting with Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian, Malacanang said on Thursday, as harsh ...

    • Wang, Locsin in 'frank, cordial' talks amid US-China word war 

      Mercene, Recto (BusinessMirror, July 16, 2020, on page A12-A2)
      Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin Jr., who said on Sunday the UN arbitral award favoring the Philippine position in the South China Sea is “nonnegotiable,” held a “frank but cordial” virtual discussion on Tuesday ...