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3 dead after smuggling boat capsizes off California
(The Manila Times,May 4, 2021 , on page B5)An overcrowded smuggling boat capsized Sunday off the California coast after crashing into the shoreline, killing three people and leaving 27 people hospitalized with a range of injuries, authorities said. The accident ... -
3 more states to do research in PH Rise
(The Manila Times,January 26, 2018 , on page A1-A7)China is not the only country whose application to conduct research on the resource-rich Benham Rise the Philippines has approved, Malacañang said on Thursday. The government has also allowed the US, Japan and South Korea ... -
Aquaculture operators seek animal protein importation
(The Manila Times,April 21, 2022 , on page B5)AMID the temporary ban on the importation of domestic and wild pigs and related products originating from Italy due to a reported case of African swine fever (ASF), several stakeholders from the aquaculture sector are ... -
Asean countries should unite on South China Sea-Alunan
(The Manila Times,December 7, 2021 , on page A1-A2)The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) should serve as a "fulcrum" and band together in preventing the United States and China to carry out their unilateral agenda in the South China Sea (SCS), former Interior ... -
Asean disunity heightens sea tension- experts
(The Manila Times,August 9, 2016 , on page A3)The lack of unity among members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in stopping China’s continuing construction work in disputed waters is increasing the conflict in the already tense West Philippine Sea ... -
Australia will ignore China air defense zone
(The Manila Times,June 2, 2015 , on page A1-A8)Australian military aircraft will continue to fly over disputed waters in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea), even if Beijing imposes an air defense identification zone (ADIZ), a top defense official said on Monday. ... -
Be careful on sea row, Carpio tells Duterte
(The Manila Times,March 21, 2017 , on page A1)President Rodrigo Duterte should be careful with his public pronouncements on the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) dispute and assert, not undermine, the Philippines’ claims, Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice ... -
Beijing : finish sea code in 3 years
(The Manila Times,October 14, 2018 , on page A1-A2)A rule book to settle disputes in the hotly contested South China Sea should be finished in three years, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday, insisting his nation does not seek “hegemony or expansion.” Li’s comments ... -
BFAR buying 100 patrol boats
(The Manila Times,June 23, 2015 , on page A1-A7)The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is buying nearly 100 new patrol boats to protect the country’s fisheries, an official said on Monday. The BFAR, an agency under the Department of Agriculture, currently ... -
Canned sardines shortage looms
(The Manila Times,September 20, 2022 , on page B2)Fisherfolk leaders and sardine cannery owners are asking the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to convene a meeting with them and include coastal local government units (LGUs) to discuss the looming shortage ... -
'China has right to seize islands'
(The Manila Times,November 18, 2015 , on page A1-A8)China has the "right and ability" to seize islands in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea) occupied by other countries, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Tuesday, ahead of regional summits expected to discuss the ... -
China must stop intruding into our EEZ
(The Manila Times,August 18, 2020 , on page A6-A7)In a recent television interview, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana stressed the need for the Philippines to balance its relationships with China and the United States where the South China Sea is concerned. That balance, ... -
China OK's adoption of sea code
(The Manila Times,September 6, 2012 , on page A1-A2)China promised on Wednesday to ensure freedom of navigation in the tense West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) and told US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton it was willing to work on a code of conduct to manage disputes. ... -
China ships still guard shoal as Pinoys return
(The Philippine Star,October 31, 2016 , on page 1-4)Chinese Coast Guard ships are still guarding Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal, although they have allowed Filipinos to fish “unmolested” for the first time in years, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and National Security ... -
Chinese drills tense up South China Sea anew
(The Manila Times,May 28, 2022 , on page A1-A9)China will hold naval exercises in the South China Sea on Saturday, its maritime authority said, after a week of recrimination from Western powers over its military ambitions across the Pacific region. The exercises, set ... -
Chinese ships in disputed waters
(The Manila Times,August 7, 2014 , on page B6)Chinese coastguard ships sailed into waters off Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea on Wednesday, officials said, after Tokyo’s annual defense paper warned over China’s “dangerous acts” near the disputed ... -
Climate scientist debunks ‘sea level rise alarm,’ UN climate agenda crumbling
(The Manila Times,December 14, 2018 , on page A4)Many Filipinos have bought the climate change (global warming) dogma for two key reasons: First, they swallowed the claim of sea level rise, and they got scared by the thought that the Philippines as a Pacific island nation ... -
Cuisia: ‘US diplomat told me Chinese would leave Panatag’
(The Manila Times,May 14, 2021 , on page A1-A5)Jose Cuisia, our ambassador to the US during the Aquino 3rd regime, said in a television interview the other day that the Chinese had agreed to leave Scarborough Shoal in June 2012 together with Philippine vessels. How did ... -
Del Rosario lost Panatag to China
(The Manila Times,April 26, 2021 , on page A1-A5)The gall of former foreign affairs secretary Albert del Rosario to even open his mouth on the Whitsun Reef brouhaha and to admonish the Duterte administration to do this or that in dealing with China. In an article prominently ... -
The destructive contempt for international law
(The Manila Times,January 8, 2020 , on page A1-A5)Most of the time, snubbing international law does not bring about the penalties that are also immediately inflicted with a violation of municipal law. But just as international law has always drawn its strength from ...