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Asean declaration skirts China issue
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 ...
- April 27, 2017
How to defend Panatag Shoal
Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, who contributed immensely to our winning our arbitration suit against China’s “nine-dash line” maritime claim, wants President Rodrigo Duterte to shut up. Justice Carpio asked ...
- March 23, 2017
Benham rise and sovereign rights
President Rodrigo Duterte has received brickbats from various quarters for being unruffled at the report of his defense secretary, Delfin Lorenzana, that Chinese survey ships were spotted last year at Benham Rise, an ...
- March 16, 2017
Duterte: Sea row better left untouched
The maritime dispute will not be on the agenda of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Summit, given that President Rodrigo Duterte had declared the issue “is better left untouched.” The President on Sunday ...
- November 13, 2017
DFA twice denied China's bid to explore Benham Rise
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday bared it had rejected China’s request to conduct scientific research at Benham Rise twice and that the reported activity of Chinese survey ships in the area last year ...
- March 30, 2017
Sea dispute: PH verifying Chinese ‘harassment, firing’
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Thursday said they were separately verifying reports that the Chinese Coast Guard fired at and harassed Filipino fishermen somewhere ...
- April 21, 2017
‘China likely to build on Scarborough Shoal’
Manila expects China to try to build on a reef off the coast of the Philippines, the Defense secretary said on Tuesday, adding this would be “unacceptable” in the flashpoint waterway. In an interview with Agence France-Presse, ...
- February 8, 2017
BMI upbeat on South China Sea exploration
Improving relations between China and the Philippines have bolstered prospects for a joint exploration in the South China Sea despite still-unresolved maritime disputes, BMI Research said. “We believe improving bilateral ...
- September 14, 2017
‘China may have collected samples from Benham Rise’
Philippine Ambassador to China Chito Santa Romana on Monday bared that a Chinese survey ship may have collected maritime samples at Benham Rise. The DFA then asked the Chinese Embassy in Manila to explain the presence of ...
- April 4, 2017
PH, China to craft sea row mechanism
The Philippines and China have agreed to set up a mechanism on how to “properly handle” maritime disputes and representatives from both countries will meet in May to craft a bilateral scheme, Malacañang said on Tuesday. ...
- March 29, 2017