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Rare meet for PH, China leaders
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 ...
- November 13, 2015
‘Importing galunggong will not lower fish prices’
Importing P1.4 billion worth of fish, specifically galunggong (round scad), won’t bring down rising fish prices, Rep. Jose Atienza of Buhay party said on Thursday. “This is a band-aid solution and a poor government ...
- August 24, 2018
Benham on the rise
Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio explained that the Philippines enjoys sovereign rights but does not have sovereignty over the plateau, which is believed to hold huge amounts of minerals and oil, apart ...
- March 15, 2017
Rody hailed for calling out China on WPS
Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario on Friday hailed President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s call for China to temper its behavior in the West Philippine Sea amid reports that Beijing warned a Philippine military ...
- July 18, 2018
Sea code of conduct seen in August
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 ...
- May 3, 2017
'PH can't stop China'
Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. admitted Friday that the Philippines cannot do anything about China’s move to militarize a series of contested artificial islands in the South China Sea. Yasay said the Philippines ...
- December 17, 2016
OMGG! PH seen buying back its own fish catch
A fisheries official said Thursday that a government plan to import galunggong (round scad) could be a case of the country buying back its own fish. “What we will import could come from us too, since the [fish] may have ...
- August 24, 2018
Japan tells China: No done deal in sea spat
Japan warned China on Wednesday that its extensive land reclamation in the disputed South China Sea does not make ownership "a done deal" after Beijing announced it had almost finished its controversial island building. ...
- June 18, 2015
Breezing through
Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano was said to have breezed through his confirmation hearing at the Commission on Appointments. Unfortunately for Cayetano, that breezing through is not bound to last. On Wednesday ...
- May 18, 2017
DU30 asserts sea claims: orders troops to take control of islets, reefs
President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday ordered the military to fortify the country’s controlled islands in the South China Sea in a bid to strengthen Philippine claims over the disputed territories. Duterte said he was ...
- April 7, 2017