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    • PH needs to boost 'Agar Agar' production 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 6, 2021, on page IP)
      The Philippines should boost the production of export winner "agar agar" seaweed to create jobs and alternative rural livelihood while generating export receipts of about $200 million yearly. During the Philippine Chamber ...

    • PH outdone by rivals in developing reefs 

      Mangosing, Frances G. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 8, 2018, on page A1-A5)
      As China steps up the transformation of seven reefs in the Spratly archipelago into sprawling military outposts, other claimants have also strengthened their stakes in the South China Sea, except the Philippines, which has ...

    • PH outgunned in China's island-building frenzy 

      Balana, Cynthia D. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 14, 2015, on page A4)
      The Armed Forces of the Philippines chief of staff, Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang Jr., looks worried as he surveys the rusted cranes and eroded runway on the tiny island of Pag-asa, now on the front line of a rapidly intensifying ...

    • PH protests as China reimposes annual fishing ban ‘without basis’ 

      Santos, Tina G.; Ocampo, Karl R.; Gascon, Melvin (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 20, 2021, on page A3)
      The Philippines has filed a diplomatic protest against China’s fishing ban in the South China Sea, saying the prohibition encroaches into parts of the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and puts Filipino fishermen at ...

    • PH protests China’s 2 ‘new’ districts in South China Sea 

      Pazzibugan, Dona Z. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 1, 2020, on page A9)
      The Philippines does not recognize China’s self-declared administrative districts in the disputed South China Sea, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Thursday. Speaking for the first time on the diplomatic ...

    • PH protests Chinese ships in WPS 

      Aning, Jerome; Santos, Tina G.; Corrales, Nestor; Enano, Jhesset O.; Andrade, Jeannette I. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 22, 2021, on page A3)
      The Philippines has expressed concern that some 220 vessels, believed to be manned by Chinese maritime militia personnel, were spotted on March 7 in the disputed South China Sea, the latest example of tensions in the crucial ...

    • PH protests new China acts in shoal 

      Avedaño, Christine (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 5, 2015, on page A2)
      The Philippines yesterday strongly protested new Chinese intrusions at Bajo de Masinloc following two incidents last month, including the ramming of three Philippine fishing vessels in the area by a Chinese Coast Guard ...

    • PH ramps up monitoring of Chinses vessels 

      Corrales, Nestor (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 29, 2021, on page A4)
      The military has been sending aircraft and ships to monitor the almost 200 Chinese vessels anchored at Julian Felipe Reef in the West Philippine Sea, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said late Saturday. He also said more ...

    • PH rejects ‘2023 version’ of China map: ‘No basis’ 

      Lazaro, Jacob; Aning, Jerome; Gascon, Melvin (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 1, 2023, on page A1-A4)
      The Philippines on Thursday refused to recognize China’s latest map, which showed a new 10-dash line that still encompassed parts of the country’s 370-kilometer exclusive economic zone (EEZ), and pressed Beijing to abide ...

    • PH seas running out of fish, says BFAR exec 

      Sotelo, Yolanda (Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 8, 2015, on page A20)
      More than a hundred fishermen, mostly from Pangasinan province, were out in the West Philippine Sea when Typhoon “Lando” (international name: Koppu) lashed Central and northern Luzon late last month. The sea was calm when ...

    • PH seaweed gears for resurgence 

      Domingo, Ronnel W. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 6, 2017, on page B6)
      A roadmap for the seaweed industry is being prepared as demand for Philippine supplies is starting to pick up in other countries, according to the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol said a ...

    • PH seeks 5-year extension of fishing access 

      Ocampo, Karl (Philippine Daily Inquirer, December NaN, 2017, on page B1)
      The Philippines is looking to secure a five-year extension of its fishing access to the tuna-rich high seas pocket 1 (HSP1) of the Pacific Ocean that set to expire this year, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources ...

    • PH seeks publicly acceptable exploration deal with China 

      Salaverria, Leila B. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 10, 2018, on page A6)
      The Philippines is hoping to hammer out a legal and publicly acceptable joint exploration agreement with China in the West Philippine Sea “in a couple of months” for the sake of the country’s energy security, Philippine ...

    • PH seeks world support for court ruling 

      Torres, Estrella (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 15, 2016, on page A1-A21)
      The Philippines plans to call for world support at a meeting of Southeast Asian nations and the European Union in compelling China to respect an international tribunal’s ruling that rejected Chinese claims to most of the ...

    • PH slams Chinese ship's dangerous maneuver 

      Santos, Tina G. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 28, 2022, on page A1-A2)
      The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on Sunday reported another “close distance maneuvering” by a vessel of the China Coast Guard (CCG) during a patrol in the West Philippine Sea early this month. In a statement the PCG said ...

    • PH slams patrols Sino fishers 

      Quismundo, Tarra (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 27, 2013, on page A3)
      The Philippines yesterday denounced China’s announced fishery patrols in the Spratlys group of islands, as it asserted its sovereignty over its established maritime boundaries in the disputed West Philippine Sea (South ...

    • PH softness in sea dispute emboldens Chinese poachers 

      Cardinoza, Gabriel (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 26, 2018, on page A3)
      The administration’s “soft-landing” approach in dealing with the country’s maritime dispute might have emboldened Chinese fishermen to continue to fish without restrictions and interference in the West Philippine Sea, an ...

    • PH submits new evidence against China 

      Avendaño, Christine O. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 18, 2015, on page A2)
      The Philippines submitted last Monday to a United Nations tribunal supplemental evidence for its arbitration case against China over disputed territories in the South China Sea, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said ...

    • PH supports US patrols in South China Sea 

      Andrade, Jeannette I. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 29, 2015, on page -A17)
      The Philippines on Wednesday said US patrols in the South China Sea were necessary to check China’s “illegal, unilateral and expansive” claims in the heavily disputed waterway. “The Philippines reiterates its previous ...

    • PH tells China: Don’t seize Filipinos’ fish catch 

      Avedaño, Christine O.; Reysio-Cruz, Matthew; Cardinoza, Gabriel (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 12, 2018, on page A5)
      The Philippines on Monday demanded that China stop its Coast Guard from confiscating the catch of Filipino fishermen in the West Philippine Sea, calling the practice “unacceptable.” The demand, aired by presidential ...