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PH backs intl pact on marine resources
The Philippines has pushed for conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in the high seas or areas beyond national jurisdiction. Manila reaffirmed its support for an international legally binding instrument ...
- April 22, 2021
PCA victory, Carpio's 'galunggong,' benefits from PH-China friendship
President Duterte has decided to concentrate on domestic policies. Roque, also an international and constitutional law professor at the University of the Philippines College of Law, explained the President's position that ...
- July 11, 2021
PH protects Chinese fishing at Panatag
The Foreign Affairs department has formally protested China’s reported mass harvesting of giant clams at the disputed Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal, which Malacañang on Tuesday called as an “affront” to the Philippines. A ...
- April 17, 2019
Most Filipinos want sea claims asserted
A significant majority of Filipinos believe that the Duterte administration should assert Philippine sovereignty over the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) based on a 2016 international arbitration ruling, according ...
- July 13, 2018
Fishers’ shelter built on Batanes Island
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)-Northern Luzon Command (Nolcom) turned over to the Batanes provincial government on Monday a multi-purpose shelter in Mavulis Island, Itbayat for local fishing and not a Marine ...
- May 28, 2019
On traditional fishing rights
During the 2019 State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Rodrigo Duterte, he mentioned the concept of traditional fishing rights (TFRs). What is it? Is respecting the TFRs of foreigners in waters within the reaches ...
- July 25, 2019
PH asserts sovereignty over exclusive ecozone
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has asserted the country's rights and jurisdiction over its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Its BRP Cabra (MRRV-4409) over the weekend successfully dispersed seven foreign fishing vessels ...
- July 5, 2021
Court gives IBP ultimatum in writ of kalikasan case
The Supreme Court has given an ultimatum to Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) lawyers to explain issues of fraud allegedly committed in the South China (West Philippine) Sea marine environment case. During deliberations ...
- July 17, 2019
What Duterte must get from China
It’s not sovereignty over the South China Sea (SCS) and the Spratlys, or any expanses of water or bits of rock and reef it wants to wangle from President Rodrigo Duterte. The Chinese know that, like them, no nation ever ...
- October 18, 2016
Yes, Senate must investigate how Aquino, Trillanes and Del Rosario lost Panatag
Sen. Loren Legarda, the chairman of the Senate’s committee on foreign relations, said the other day that she welcomed a probe into the country’s handling of its territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea. That ...
- June 18, 2018