Congress has earmarked P800 million to build a new fishing port on Nanshan Island in the South China Sea to encourage civilian settlements, a congressman said on Sunday. The port is separate from the P1.5 billion allotted for the expansion of an airport on Thitu Island, Makati Rep. Luis Jose Angel N. Campos, Jr., vice chairman of the House of Representatives committee on appropriations, said in a statement. “The shelter port and the airport expansion projects give substance to Speaker Martin Romualdez’s pledge to develop the Kalayaan Island Group in a bid to encourage civilian settlements there,” he added.

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