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    • Is Duterte serving China's interest or PH's? 

      Basu, Saikat Kumar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 21, 2016, on page A14)
      President Duterte’s position on the Philippines’ maritime dispute with Beijing will destroy chances of stopping assertive China’s creeping usurpation of the Philippine claim to the West Philippine Sea. In its confrontation ...

    • IS harasses marsh fishermen 

      Fernandez, Edwin (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 16, 2018, on page A10)
      The military operation against Islamic State (IS) followers operating in Liguasan Marsh had freed fishing areas from the control of terrorists, including foreigners, according to the military. The operation, which killed ...

    • Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a squid 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 9, 2013, on page A23)
      The oceanic squid can fly more than 30 metres through the air at speeds faster than Usain Bolt if it wants to escape predators, Japanese researchers said on Friday. The mollusc propels itself out of the ocean by shooting ...

    • Is the DPWH killing coral reefs? 

      See, Aie Balagtas (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 10, 2017, on page A19)
      He might get into trouble for it, renowned marine biologist Wilfredo Licuanan himself admitted, but he just had to say it: “The No. 1 destroyer of coral reefs in the Philippines is the Department of Public Works and ...

    • Island beaches shut down to save fragile ecosystems 

      Chandran, Rina (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 29, 2018, on page A4)
      Not only Boracay Island but also Maya Bay will be off limits to visitors this year as officials seek to protect ecosystems crumbling from warming seas and unchecked sprawl, despite the risk to tourism revenues and tens of ...

    • Island facing West PH Sea seen boosting coastal defense 

      Mangosing, Frances (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 27, 2023, on page A3-A4)
      The Philippine Marine Corps (PMC) is considering a donated 10-hectare land on Lubang Island in Occidental Mindoro province as a vital location in the military’s “coastal defense strategy” against external threats. The ...

    • Island may offer clues to coral reefs' survival 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 18, 2017, on page A4)
      The key to the survival of the world’s threatened coral reefs may lie in the waters surrounding a small volcanic island off the coast of Japan, scientists say. The seabed of Shikine island is a “living laboratory” for ...

    • 'It's time': Duterte to raise sea row ruling on China trip 

      Aurelio, Julie M.; Ramos, Marlon (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 7, 2019, on page A6)
      President Duterte will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing later this month to discuss a 2016 ruling by the UN-backed Permanent Court of Arbitration that nullified China’s claim to nearly the entire South China ...

    • Italy backs PH in sea row 

      Dizon, Nikko; Quismundo, Tarra (Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 4, 2015, on page A1-A4)
      The Philippine has found another supporter of its decision to take its territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea to the United Nations for arbitration, with Italy's top leaders telling President Aquino that it ...

    • Itu Aba: PH biggest worry is biggest win 

      Quismundo, Tarra (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 18, 2016, on page A1-A20)
      The rock of contention was the Philippine legal team’s “biggest worry.” But in the end, the status of Itu Aba, the largest feature in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, turned out to be one of the ...

    • It’s official: ‘Butanding’ an endangered species 

      Honasan, Alya B. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 17, 2016, on page A1-A14)
      There’s bad news for the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), an iconic marine animal frequently spotted in Philippine waters and known locally as butanding. Now listed as “endangered” on the International Union for Conservation ...

    • Japan challenges incursions by Chinese ships 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 9, 2021, on page B3)
      Japan said Monday it has protested to China over two incursions into Japanese territorial waters that come after Beijing enacted legislation toughening its response to violations of its maritime territory.

    • Japan may dump radioactive water into the sea-minister 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 11, 2019, on page A14)
      Japan's Tokyo Electric Power will have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean as it runs out of room to store it, Environment Minister Yoshiaki Harada said on ...

    • Japan military joins historic PH war games 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 7, 2018, on page A13)
      Japan has its own maritime territorial dispute with Beijing in the East China Sea. The US military stressed that Saturday’s exercise was not aimed at China, which has also built artificial islands on disputed areas of the ...

    • Japan protest Chinese Navy ship's provocation 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 7, 2013, on page A21)
      A Chinese navy vessel aimed a type of radar normally used to aim weapons at a target at a Japanese navy ship in the East China Sea, prompting Japan to protest, Japan’s defense minister said on Tuesday, an action that could ...

    • Japan sends warships to South China Sea 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 11, 2020, on page A11)
      Japan’s Maritime Self-defense Force conducted anti-submarine drills in the South China Sea on Oct. 9, deploying three vessels including a helicopter aircraft carrier and a submarine, according to the Japanese defence ministry.

    • Japan slams China reclamations in disputed sea 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP); Associated Press (AP); Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 22, 2015, on page A1-A4)
      Japan slammed China's bid to reclaim land in the South China Sea as a "coercive attempt" to force sweeping maritime claims, in a defense paper coinciding with Tokyo's bid for legislation to expand the Japanese military ...

    • Japan to send largest warship to disputed sea 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 15, 2017, on page A13)
      Japan plans to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea beginning in May, three sources said, in its biggest show of naval force in the region since World War II. China claims almost ...

    • Japanese warship damaged in collision with Chinese boat 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 1, 2020, on page A9)
      A Japanese destroyer and a Chinese fishing boat collided in the East China Sea on Monday night and no one was injured, Japan’s defense minister said, but China said a fisherman was hurt and suggested the Japanese vessel ...

    • Japanese whalers return to port with first catch: 2 Minkes 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 3, 2019, on page A13)
      Japanese whalers returned to port Monday with their first catch after resuming commercial whaling for the first time in 31 years, achieving the long-cherished goal of traditionalists that is seen as largely a lost cause ...