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Series of bilateral talks leading calm for South China Sea
With the upcoming Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit happening in Manila, a discussion about the Code of Conduct on South China Sea (SCS) is expected to be brought up by its participating leaders. With ...
- November 11, 2017
Duterte eyes China, Japan trips
Diplomats in the Philippines are in talks with counterparts in Japan and China to arrange visits by controversial President Duterte at the end of next month, officials said on Friday. The Philippines' relations with Japan ...
- September 24, 2016
DU30: back to Panatag
President Duterte on Sunday raised the possibility of Filipino fishermen returning to the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea after his three-day state visit to China. Speaking before residents of typhoon-hit ...
- October 24, 2016
'Too much, too soon,' expert warns on PH-China sea study
Batongbacal was referring to an announcement made by President Rodrigo Duterte last week in Marawi City and later clarified by Malacañang spokesperson Harry Roque, that the administration was considering China’s offer to ...
- March 4, 2018
PH, China restart talks on sea row
China and the Philippines agreed on Thursday that disputes in the South China Sea were not the sum total of their relations, and that the two countries would restore diplomatic and defense consultations, Chinese Vice Foreign ...
- October 21, 2016
Gov’t processing 22 Manila Bay reclamation projects
A total of 22 reclamation projects are planned along Manila Bay that will affect — and likely pollute — a 22,000-hectare area of the body of water, an official of the Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA) admitted to ...
- February 12, 2019
Du30: I trust China won't build on shoal
President Duterte on Thursday said he trusted China would not build anything on Panatag Shoal because he was given its “word of honor” and Beijing would not want to jeopardize a new friendship. “Let me tell now, I was ...
- March 24, 2017
Du30 won’t raise Hague ruling again, says Palace
Chinese President Xi Jinping stood pat on his country’s rejection of the international arbitral award favoring the Philippines, but assured President Duterte that China will avoid “provocative acts” in the South China Sea, ...
- August 31, 2019
Duterte to declare Panatag a marine Sanctuary
President Duterte plans to issue an executive order unilaterally declaring the lagoon of the disputed Panatag Shoal a marine sanctuary, where neither Filipinos nor Chinese may be allowed to fish. Mr. Duterte told Chinese ...
- November 22, 2016
Carpio: World naval powers enforcing Hague ruling
President Rodrigo Duterte may have chosen to set aside an international tribunal ruling that invalidated China’s claim to nearly all of the South China Sea, but the world’s naval powers are enforcing it, according to acting ...
- July 11, 2018