Browsing The Manila Times by Subject "territorial waters"
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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 ... -
‘60-40 sea deal with China illegal’
(The Manila Times,April 30, 2018 , on page A2)President Rodrigo Duterte’s offer of a 60-40 percent joint exploration deal with China is tantamount to treason, a lawmaker said Sunday. Rep. Gary Alejano of Magdalo party-list issued the statement in light of Duterte’s ... -
Abad's wife vows to block Taiwan fish pact
(The Manila Times,August 13, 2013 , on page A7)Deputy Speaker Henedina Abad of Batanes, wife of Budget Secretary Florencio Abad, has vowed to block any fishing agreement between the Philippines and Taiwan unless the Aquino administration will earmark funding for strict ... -
Act on near-collision at sea, govt urged
(The Manila Times,March 29, 2022 , on page A9)Sen. Mary Grace Poe urged the government to act urgently on the Philippine Coast Guard's (PCG) report of "close distance maneuvering" by a Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) vessel in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). The senator on ... -
AFP Chief lied on new 'illegal structures' at Union Banks
(The Manila Times,April 12, 2021 , on page A1-A5)Or perhaps Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana was just fed the wrong information or just ignorant of the Spratly Islands dispute, when he claimed last April 1 that the Chinese had built new illegal ... -
AFP completes resupply mission in Ayungin Shoal
(The Manila Times,December 19, 2022 , on page A2)The Western Command (Wescom) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Sunday said that they were able to complete another resupply mission to the troops manning the BRP Sierra Madre grounded in the Ayungin Shoal, ... -
AFP won't protect fishermen at West Philippine Sea
(The Manila Times,March 3, 2014 , on page A7)A few days ago, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) reported that a Chinese vessel fired water cannons at a group of fishermen in Scarborough Shoal or Bajo De Masinloc in the West Philippine Sea. Fortunately, the ... -
Aquino 3rd arbitration suit induced Chinese moves on Ayungin Shoal
(The Manila Times,November 22, 2021 , on page A1-A5)It is the unexpected ruling in 2016 on the Aquino 3rd regime's arbitration suit against China that continues to encourage the Chinese to block Philippine boats from sending supplies to military personnel in Ayungin Shoal, ... -
Aquino-del Rosario offered Sabah to Malaysia for its support in arbitration case vs. China
(The Manila Times,September 18, 2019 , on page A1-A5)The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) under President Benigno Aquino 3rd's watch, then headed by Albert del Rosario, practically offered to drop our decades-old claim over Sabah against Malaysia in exchange for Kula ... -
Arbitration 'award': A P1-billion useless piece of paper
(The Manila Times,May 7, 2021 , on page A1-A5)President Duterte was absolutely correct when he remarked the other night that the “award” (i.e., ruling) of the arbitration suit that the Aquino 3rd administration brought against China in 2013 was a useless “piece of ... -
Arbitration ruling opened us to Chinese or Vietnamese military aggression in South China Sea
(The Manila Times,July 20, 2020 , on page A1-A5)It is sickening for the previous Yellow regime, especially its Foreign secretary Albert del Rosario, and just recently President Rodrigo Duterte’s present Defense and Foreign Affairs secretaries to be flag-waving in claiming ... -
Arbitration suit vs China: A colossal hoax
(The Manila Times,August 5, 2020 , on page A1-A5)It has been a colossal hoax pulled off with astonishing success by the pro-American Yellow Cult: that the award handed down by an arbitral panel in the suit brought by former president Benigno Aquino 3rd and his government ... -
Arbitration suit vs China: Aquino 3rd regime and the US' big blunder
(The Manila Times,December 27, 2021 , on page -A5)This is the second instalment (the first was published last Friday) of Chapter 9 of my book, Debacle: The Aquino Regime's Scarborough Fiasco and the South China Sea Arbitration Deception, which discusses this development ... -
Arroyo opposes joint exploration in West PH Sea
(The Manila Times,April 21, 2014 , on page A8)Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo is not in favor of joint exploration in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) islands with China or other claimant countries. “I don’t know all the facts that are available to the current ... -
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 declaration skirts China issue
(The Manila Times,April 27, 2017 , on page A1-A2)Southeast Asian leaders are likely to avoid any official mention at their Manila summit this week of an arbitration ruling that had nullified China’s massive claims on the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), according ... -
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 ... -
Asset rights in South China Sea
(The Manila Times,November 20, 2019 , on page A2)United States Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has urged all nations, especially claimants to the hotly contested South China (West Philippine) Sea, to take a stand publicly by asserting their sovereign rights and to adopt ... -
At last, the only rational policy for our disputes in the Spratlys: Fortify our islands and reefs there!
(The Manila Times,June 1, 2018 , on page A1-A6)The opposition’s allegation that President Duterte has been kowtowing to China on our territorial disputes is unadulterated hogwash, so grossly ignorant of what sovereignty in the South China Sea entails. After four ... -
Atienza backs joint sea deal with China
(The Manila Times,May 3, 2018 , on page A2)Buhay party-list Rep. Lito Atienza threw his support behind President Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to jointly explore the South China Sea with China. “We fully support and appreciate President Duterte’s plan to forge a 60-40 ...