Browsing Philippine Daily Inquirer by Subject "land reclamation"

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    • 3rd Sino airstrip rising on PH reef 

      Aurelio, Julie M. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 16, 2015, on page A1-A19)
      The photographs taken for the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) think tank on Sept. 8 show the construction of an airstrip on Panganiban Reef (Mischief Reef), one of several artificial ...

    • Amid Chinese presence, Navy wants to stay in Sangley Point 

      Mangosing, Frances (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 7, 2020, on page A2)
      The Philippine Navy is opposing a plan by the Cavite provincial government to boot the military service command out of Sangley Point in Cavite as part of a P500-billion airport project that is expected to ease congestion ...

    • Asean ministers rock no boats in Myanmar, South China Sea 

      Associated Press (AP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 20, 2019, on page A2-4)
      Foreign ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Friday hewed to the group’s practice of reaching the least provocative consensus possible in discussions of such divisive issues as Myanmar’s ...

    • Australia boosts PH in South China Sea dispute 

      Doronila, Amando (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 29, 2016, on page A17)
      The international arbitration case filed by the Philippines over disputed territories in the South China Sea received timely diplomatic support from Australia on Tuesday, when Foreign Minister Julie Bishop declared that ...

    • ‘Bay project won’t block sunset view’ 

      Esplanada, Jerry E. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 14, 2013, on page A24)
      The proposed reclamation project will not obstruct or hide from public view Manila Bay’s world-famous sunset. This was the assurance given on Wednesday by one of the top officials of Manila Goldcoast Development Corp. ...

    • China 'extremely concerned' by proposed US challenge 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 19, 2015, on page A16)
      China said on Friday it was "extremely concerned" about suggestion from a top US commander that US ships and aircraft should challenge China's claims in the South China Sea by patrolling close to artificial islands it has ...

    • China admits disputed sea buildup 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 26, 2017, on page A7)
      China has "reasonably" expanded its islands in the disputed South China Sea and this year construction projects there including radar facilities covered about 290,000 square meters (29 hectares), according to a new government ...

    • China building triangle of bases, warns Carpio 

      Calleja, Niña P. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 2, 2015, on page A19)
      Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio called on the nation Thursday to make the Philippines’ territorial dispute with China an issue in next year’s national elections as Beijing continued to build a “a ...

    • China extending reach in sea, says US admiral 

      Associated Press (AP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 17, 2015, on page A8)
      The commander of US forces in the Pacific said Wednesday that major land reclamation by China a-at outpost in the south china sea could allow it to exert more influence over the contested area of deploy military asset such ...

    • China installs rocket launchers on disputed reef 

      Corrales, Nestor (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 18, 2017, on page A2)
      China has installed rocket launchers on a disputed reef in the South China Sea to ward off Vietnamese military combat divers, according to a state-run newspaper, offering new details on China’s ongoing military build-up. ...

    • China island-building still on 

      Dizon, Nikko (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 11, 2017, on page A8)
      Washington-based think tank Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Amti-CSIS) on Thursday disproved the claims of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Philippine Foreign ...

    • China opens lighthouses on 2 PH reefs in Spratlys 

      Calleja, Niña P. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 11, 2015, on page A1-A20)
      China has started operating lighthouses on two reefs in the disputed West Philippine Sea, state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday, as tensions in the region mount over Beijing’s maritime ambitions. The two reefs are ...

    • China reclamation using PH soil–gov 

      Macatuno, Allan (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 27, 2016, on page A6)
      China has been expanding its reclamation projects in the West Philippine Sea, using massive boulders and soil extracted from Zambales province by local mining companies, Gov. Amor Deloso said on Tuesday. Citing information ...

    • China scores win; PH lets go of bid to cite sea ruling 

      Torres, Estrella (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 26, 2016, on page A1-A17)
      Southeast Asian nations overcame days of deadlock on Monday when the Philippines dropped a request for their joint statement to mention a landmark legal ruling on the South China Sea, officials said, after objections from ...

    • China to build on Panatag Shoal 

      Uy, Jocelyn (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 18, 2017, on page A1-A2)
      China plans to build the first permanent structure on a South China Sea shoal at the heart of a territorial dispute with the Philippines, in a move likely to renew concerns over Beijing’s robust assertions of its claims ...

    • China to start building on reclaimed land reclaimed from disputed sea 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 17, 2015, on page A1-A8)
      First the horizontal development, now the vertical development. The foreign ministry on Tuesday said China would complete within days its land reclamation projects on disputed areas in the South China Sea in an apparent ...

    • China urged to prepare for war in disputed sea 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 6, 2016, on page A15)
      China should prepare itself for military confrontation in the South China Sea, an influential Chinese paper said on Tuesday, a week ahead of a decision by an international court on a case filed by Manila against Beijing. ...

    • China wants 'de facto' control of sea, says PH 

      Dizon, Nikko (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 27, 2015, on page A1-A19)
      Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario on Sunday urged the Asean to stop China’s “destabilizing activities” in the South China Sea, warning that Beijing was poised to take “de facto control” of the area. At the ...

    • China's land reclamation alarms US senators 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 21, 2015, on page A3)
      Leading US senators expressed alarm on Thursday at the scale and speed of China's land reclamation in the South China Sea and said a formal US strategy was needed to slow or stop the work. In a letter to US Secretary State ...

    • China’s ‘new islands’ in disputed seas alarming 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 20, 2015, on page A27)
      China’s creation of artificial islands in the South China Sea is happening so fast that Beijing will be able to extend the range of its Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and fishing fleets before long, much to the alarm of rival ...