Browsing Manila Standard by Author "Tuyay, Francisco"

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    • China angered by young campers on disputed isle 

      Tuyay, Francisco (Manila Standard, December 29, 2015, on page A2)
      BEIJING expressed anger Monday after a group of young Filipinos camped out on Pagasa, an island in the South China Sea that both China and the Philippines claim as their own. The voyage of the group, which calls itself ...

    • China may be building airstrip on reef-PH 

      Solmerin, Florante S.; Tuyay, Francisco; Fabunan, Sara Susanne D.; Barcelo, Vito; Cruz, Maricel V. (Manila Standard, May 15, 2014, on page A1-A2)
      The Philippines warned on Wednesday that China may be building an airstrip on a reef in the South China Sea as the Asian superpower asserts its claim to most of the strategic area. Filipino military surveillance aircraft ...

    • China warships no longer straying into Sibutu-AFP 

      Tuyay, Francisco (Manila Standard, August 26, 2019, on page A1-A2)
      Beijing may have ordered its navy not to stay into Philippines waters after the recent string of sightings of Chinese warships passing unannounced through the Sibutu Strait triggered a series of protests from Manila, a ...

    • Defense chiefs want sea disputers resolved 

      Tuyay, Francisco (Manila Standard, March 12, 2018, on page A2)
      Southeast Asia’s top defense officials on Sunday reaffirmed the importance of maintaining and promoting peace and security in the South China Sea. The Philippines’ Armed Forces Chief Rey Leonardo Guerrero underscored the ...

    • DND seeks to review treaty between US, PH 

      Tuyay, Francisco (Manila Standard, December 21, 2018, on page A3)
      Nearly seven decades after the signing of the Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Philippine government, the defense department will seek to review the Aug. 30, 1951 accord to solicit Washington’s ...

    • ‘Fight for PH rights in WPS’ 

      Barcelo, Vito; Tuyay, Francisco (Manila Standard, June 13, 2022, on page A1-A2)
      President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday said the Philippines would never ive up fighting for its sovereign rights in the West Philippine Sea—but ruled out war with China. “(Chinese) President Xi Jinping is my friend, and we ...

    • Lake Buhi, home of unique PH fish, gets attention 

      Tuyay, Francisco (Manila Standard, June 9, 2013, on page A3)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources has designated the Lake Buhi Watershed in Camarines Sur as a water quality management area in a bid to protect the lake that is home to the Mistichthys luzonensis, locally ...

    • Navy beefing up Batanes forces: move comes amid frequent poaching in fish-rich area 

      Tuyay, Francisco (Manila Standard, June 26, 2015, on page A7)
      The Philippine Navy has deployed more troops in Batanes Island and peripheral waters in a move to ward off foreign poachers in the fish-rich area, Navy Chief Vice Admiral Jesus Millan said on Thursday. The number of personnel ...

    • PH ignores Chinese names on Benham 

      Barcelo, Vito; Tuyay, Francisco; Ramos-Araneta, Macon (Manila Standard, February 16, 2018, on page A1)
      Malacañang said Thursday it is not alarmed over China’s move to tag five underwater features of Philippine Rise with Chinese names, saying there was no bad faith involved and that bilateral relations remain intact. In a ...

    • PH steps up island devt in China sea 

      Casas, Bill; Tuyay, Francisco; Barcelo, Vito (Manila Standard, January 10, 2018, on page A1-A2)
      The Philippines will follow the lead of China and Vietnam and develop islands under its control in the disputed South China Sea, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Tuesday. “My plan of action is also to develop all ...

    • PH wary of China ships on Benham 

      Tuyay, Francisco (Manila Standard, March 10, 2017, on page A1-A2)
      Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Thursday said he has ordered the Navy to send a ship to Benham Rise, an underwater landmass 250 kilometers east of Luzon, to drive away Chinese survey vessels that have been spotted ...

    • Rody backs China buildup in WP Sea 

      Barcelo, Vito; Tuyay, Francisco; Fabunan, Sara Susanne D. (Manila Standard, February 20, 2018, on page A1)
      President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday suggested in jest that China make the Philippines a province as he defended China’s construction of military structures on the contested Kagitingan (Fiery Cross) Reef in the South China ...

    • Sea code of conduct seen in August 

      Bencito, John Paolo; Tuyay, Francisco (Manila Standard, May 3, 2017, on page A1-A2)
      The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations is optimistic that it can complete a working framework for a Code of Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea with Beijing by August, the Foreign Affairs Department ...

    • Troops deployed to secure PH Rise 

      Tuyay, Francisco; Fabunan, Sara Susanne (Manila Standard, February 17, 2018, on page A2)
      The military had deployed hundreds of Marines troopers in the country’s northern frontier to secure and maintain the country’s sovereign rights over Philippine Rise, after China renamed four seamounts and a hill in the ...