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DFA: China gives 'no-build' assurance in sea row talks
China has assured the Philippines that it would refrain from conducting any activities on uninhabited areas in the West Philippine Sea, Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said on Friday. Cayetano said the country had ...
- February 17, 2018
Lorenzana: WPS row with China still a security worry
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Monday said the country had been managing “very well” its territorial dispute with China over the West Philippine Sea (WPS), but this remained a security challenge. Lorenzana accepted ...
- March 27, 2018
PH building Batanes shelter for fishers
Before any dispute erupts over an uninhabited island in northern Philippines, the government is building a shelter for fishermen on Mavulis Island — the northernmost of the Batanes Islands — to assert the country’s ...
- June 19, 2018
PAF gets US tech for sea patrols
The Philippine Air Force (PAF) on Tuesday received from the United States a system upgrade for its maritime patrol operations, particularly at the West Philippine Sea. The Special Airborne Mission Installation and Response ...
- August 15, 2018
Chinese Navy in large show of force
The images, provided by Planet Labs Inc, confirm a Chinese carrier group has entered the vital trade waterway as part of what the Chinese navy earlier described as combat drills that were part of routine annual exercises. ...
- March 28, 2018
Carpio: PH should sue China for damaged reefs
The admission of National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. that Chinese fishermen have harvested giant clams and destroyed coral reefs at Panatag Shoal is enough for the Duterte administration to seek compensation ...
- June 13, 2018
Roque disputes Trillanes charge of turnaround
Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque on Monday shrugged off Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV’s statement that he had sold his soul to the devil. Roque asked the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2016 to tell China to respect ...
- June 19, 2018
New US stealth fighters train on carrier in Philippine Sea
The US military on Friday launched its new vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) F-35Bs from the deck of the USS Wasp amphibious carrier in the waters around Okinawa, Japan, in its first show of stealth aircraft force at ...
- March 25, 2018
Cayetano Defends Granting China Research Access to Benham Rise
Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano has defended the Duterte administration’s move allowing China to conduct marine research in Benham Rise off eastern Luzon, indicating that the grant of permission did not break any ...
- January 14, 2018
Sea row takes center stage in June 12 rites
President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jianhua discussed China Coast Guard abuses at Panatag Shoal in the West Philippine Sea on Tuesday as the nation celebrated Independence Day. The ...
- June 13, 2018