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DFA chief: Nix deals with China companies tied to WPS buildup
Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Friday said he would recommend the termination of government contracts with Chinese companies involved in China’s artificial island building on maritime features in the West Philippine ...
- August 29, 2020
Everything normal at Scarborough
Everything is normal at the disputed Scarborough Shoal — no sign of construction, only the usual Filipino and Chinese fishing boats and the Chinese Coast Guard presence. The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) conducted an aerial ...
- July 13, 2017
Sea conduct, pandemic to agenda of meet
The ongoing negotiations for a new South China Sea Code of Conduct and the continuing battle to contain the new coronavirus disease were among the items discussed in the recent Association of Southeast Asian Nations ...
- July 12, 2020
Task force answers China radio message: Withdraw your militia
A Philippine military plane patrolling the West Philippine Sea this week spotted scores of Chinese vessels at several reefs within the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and received several radio messages telling it ...
- April 1, 2021
PH, Indonesia see overlapping EEZs as areas of cooperation
An agreement marking the boundary between the overlapping exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of the Philippines and Indonesia officially entered into force following the exchange by the two countries’ foreign ministers of the ...
- August 3, 2019
'PH a willing victim of China in sea dispute’
Two years after winning an international arbitral court ruling against China, the Philippines has become a “willing victim” of the Asian behemoth in the South China Sea disputes, former Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario ...
- July 13, 2018
PH protests Chinese ships in WPS
The Philippines has expressed concern that some 220 vessels, believed to be manned by Chinese maritime militia personnel, were spotted on March 7 in the disputed South China Sea, the latest example of tensions in the crucial ...
- March 22, 2021
Duterte admin asked to heed SC order protecting PH reefs
President Rodrigo Duterte and other government officials must enforce the Supreme Court’s writ of kalikasan order directing them to protect and rehabilitate the marine environment in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), former ...
- May 5, 2019
DFA, Manila gov't push back vs Chinese
From both national and local governments came some pushback on acts committed by the Chinese. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has filed a diplomatic protest in connection with an incident in May when the Chinese ...
- August 22, 2020
EX-DFA Chief calls for next strategy to press Beijing on sea row
The Philippine government should keep on raising with China the issue of the 2016 arbitral award that nullified Beijing's overreaching claims on the West Philippine Sea, former Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said on ...
- September 1, 2019