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    • 'Boat ramming': Chinese told to pay P12m to Pinoy fishermen 

      Requejo, Rey E. (Manila Standard, September 18, 2020, on page A1-A2)
      Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has said the Chinese government will have to pay P12 million the 22 fishermen and owner of M/V Gem-Ver rammed by a Chinese fishing vessel off Recto Bank on June 9 last year. Citing a ...
    • China twists Locsin: Mind your manners 

      Requejo, Rey E.; Barcelo, Vito; Ramos-Araneta, Macon (Manila Standard, May 5, 2021, on page A1-A2)
      The Chinese foreign ministry rebuked Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. on Tuesday, telling him to mind his manners and act in a way that suited his status despite the simmering issues between the countries in ...
    • Chinese envoy accuses West of 'sowing discord' over WPS 

      Requejo, Rey (Manila Standard, July 16, 2022, on page A1-A2)
      The Chinese Embassy in the Philippines on Friday said “some outsiders” who are not from Asia are trying to sow discord between the two countries to serve their own geopolitical interests in the region. In a statement, ...
    • DFA: China wants to be above the law 

      Barcelo, Vito (Manila Standard, March 1, 2016, on page A4)
      The Philippines has been praised by nations around the world, because it is the first country to have dared (under Art. 287 and Annex VII of UNCLOS) to take China to the court. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin ...
    • Our weak stand on China 

      Del Rosario, Alejandro (Manila Standard, June 4, 2018, on page A4-A5)
      Opposition lawmakers are questioning the Philippines’ anemic stand against China’s military buildup in the West Philippine Sea. It appears to the concerned solons that the government’s foreign policy and national security ...
    • PH drops oil, gas talks with China—DFA 

      (Manila Standard, June 24, 2022, on page A1-A2)
      The Philippines has abandoned joint oil exploration talks with China amid tensions in the West Philippine Sea, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said. Locsin, in his speech during the 124th anniversary of the ...
    • PH urged to resist outside forces in sea 

      (Manila Standard, July 26, 2017, on page A2)
      China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday called on the Philippines and the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to unite and resist the intervention of “non-regional forces” in the disputes in the South ...
    • PH, China cautious on joint oil exploration talks 

      (Manila Standard, March 23, 2018, on page A1-A2)
      China and Philippines said Wednesday they will cautiously proceed with discussions on joint oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea, further reversing years of tensions over their competing claims to the region. the ...
    • Rare meet for PH, China leaders 

      Barcelo, Vito (Manila Standard, November 13, 2015, on page A5)
      President Benigno Aquino III and Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose countries are embroiled in a territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea/South China Sea, will be seated together during the gathering of world ...
    • Sino ships seen in WPS: despite Beijing's assurance no new expansion in disputed waters 

      Cruz, Maricel V. (Manila Standard, August 16, 2017, on page A1-A2)
      A party-list lawmaker on Tuesday urged the government to file a diplomatic protest against China over Chinese ships spotted near Pag-asa Island in the West Philippine Sea. At the same time, Magdalo Party-List Rep. Gary ...
    • US backs PH protest vs. China's fish ban 

      Requejo, Rey (Manila Standard, June 4, 2022, on page A1-A2)
      The United States on Thursday backed the Philippines in criticizing a unilateral seasonal ban on fishing declared by Beijing in the dispute-rife South China Sea. This developed as Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin ...
    • US, China swap charges; rivalry mars SEA talks 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, September 11, 2020, on page A1-A2)
      Washington's top diplomat urged Southeast Asia on Thursday to cut ties with Chinese companies helping build islands in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, even as Beijing denounced the United States as “the biggest ...