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'Balikatan' levels up for PH maritime defense
The Philippines and the United States on Tuesday opened their largest-ever joint military exercises, which will involve rocket bombardment to sink a decommissioned navy ship and simulate the recapture of an island, amid ...
- April 12, 2023
PH, China open talks on joint oil exploration in May
The Philippinees and China will meet in Beijing next month to set the stage for cooperation between the two sides in exploring the West Philippine Sea (WPS) for gas and oil deposits, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) ...
- April 5, 2023
Bato has another suspect in WPS boat collision
Talk about having usual suspects. Perhaps one cannot blame this senator for having such instincts; he’s an ex-top cop, after all. Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa on Friday said China could be behind the recent collision between ...
- October 7, 2023
Do more to enforce ruling
Citing loans and investments from China, the President has set aside the ruling, while his Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano has declined to show the “50 to 100” protests that he claimed the Philippines has lodged ...
- July 17, 2018
Carpio sees Sino militia at work, urges 'strong signal' to China
The Philippines should send a strong signal to China that a repeat of the ramming of a Filipino fishing boat by a Chinese vessel in the South China Sea could lead to a break of diplomatic ties, Supreme Court Senior Associate ...
- June 16, 2019
Let's go to Panatag, fishers dare Roque
Two vessels of the Chinese Coast Guard are permanently positioned at the mouth of the 150-kilometer-wide Scarborough Shoal (Panatag or Bajo de Masinloc to locals), preventing Filipino fishermen from entering, fishing or ...
- July 15, 2021
More Chinese warships, maritime militia in WPS
The Philippine Navy has spotted about 15 to 25 warships near Panganiban (Mischief) Reef, some 37 kilometers southeast of Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal where a grounded World War II-era warship serves as a Philippine outpost. ...
- January 31, 2024
AFP, PCG to China Coast Guard: ‘Restrain your forces’
The Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on Sunday denounced the China Coast Guard (CCG) for blocking and using water cannons on Filipino vessels on a resupply mission to one of the country’s ...
- August 7, 2023
What PH fishers after Chinese apology
A month after they received an apology, the fishermen from Mindoro province who were put out of work after a Chinese trawler rammed and damaged their fishing boat in the West Philippine Sea in June have yet to receive ...
- September 29, 2019
Carpio slams DFA stand on PH reef incident
The Philippines must protest China’s landing of military aircraft on Panganiban Reef or its silence may be taken as implied consent, according to acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio. “If we don’t protest, we acquiesce. We ...
- April 23, 2018