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Filipino fishermen are back in Panatag
Filipino fishermen do not know for sure, but eight groups of fishermen from Zambales province entered Panatag Shoal on Wednesday without interference from the Chinese Coast Guard, which had been blockading the rich fishing ...
- October 28, 2016
Fishery deal a chance to solve sea row–Angara
Pursuing joint fishery agreements with China is a “window of opportunity” for peacefully resolving the Philippines’ dispute with its increasingly powerful neighbor over territories in the West Philippine Sea. This is part ...
- January 12, 2014
Subic fishers returning to Panatag
Unfazed by their recent encounter with Chinese Coast Guards, local fishermen said they are preparing to return to the Panatag Shoal to assert their right to fish. Fisherman Ronald Arciete, 31, said Chinese patrol boats ...
- March 28, 2016
PH seeks world support for court ruling
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 ...
- July 15, 2016
From PH rise, Duterte urged to proceed to Panatag, WPS
A maritime law expert is urging President Duterte not to make next week’s visit to the Philippine Rise a “sideshow with colorful but empty utterances of protecting sovereignty and sovereign rights.” Jay Batongbacal, director ...
- May 12, 2018
Carpio thankful Locsin cleared Du30 gab on arbitral ruling
China could have held President Rodrigo Duterte to his “unilateral declaration” to set aside the Philippines’ 2016 victory at the international arbitral tribunal were it not for Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr.’s timely ...
- September 14, 2019
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
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
Carpio 'fact-checks' Cayetano on sino sea claims
Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio on Tuesday countered Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano’s playing down China’s intrusion on Philippine waters in the heavily disputed South China Sea. Saying he was “fact-checking” ...
- August 21, 2019