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PH, China cautious on joint oil exploration talks
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 ...
- March 23, 2018
Fisherfolk rejects 'joint research' in Benham Rise
The militant fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas on Tuesday lambasted the Department of Foreign Affairs for allowing China, in partnership with the Philippines, to conduct an unspecified ...
- January 17, 2018
Insist PH's right over disputed sea, govt urged
Amid the reported Chinese militarization of the artificial islands in the Spratly archipelago, Senator Joel Villanueva on Wednesday called on the government and the public to insist on the country’s rightful claim over the ...
- February 8, 2018
PH protests China's new 'provocative acts' in SCS
The Philippines filed a protest against “unlawful” and “provocative acts” by Chinese state vessels in the West Philippine Sea, including the issuance of 200 radio challenges. “The DFA protested the unlawful issuance of ...
- October 21, 2021
PH options open; US warns China
The Defense department said Thursday it was keeping “all our options open” as Washington warned Beijing against increasing aggressive moves in the region amid the presence of Chinese vessels at the Julian Felipe Reef – ...
- April 9, 2021
China ‘trespassing’ in WPS
The Philippines on Thursday rejected China’s demand that it remove the grounded BRP Sierra Madre ship from the Ayungin Shoal, saying it was the Chinese who were trespassers in the West Philippine Sea. The statement came ...
- November 26, 2021
Albert del Rosario has no moral authority to scold President Duterte
Former Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario is currently drumming up public animosity against President Rodrigo Roa Duterte over the way the latter is handling the ongoing maritime dispute between the ...
- May 7, 2021
Locsin junks 'verbal deal' with China
President Rodrigo Duterte’s purported verbal agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping allowing Chinese fishermen to fish within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone cannot be implemented, Foreign Affairs Secretary ...
- July 4, 2019
DFA vows daily diplomatic protests till China boats leave PH reef
The Department of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday vowed to file daily diplomatic protests against China unless all Chinese vessels leave the Julian Felipe Reef in the West Philippine Sea. “Firing another diplomatic protest. ...
- April 8, 2021
PH says Hague ruling binding; Chinese envoy wants it voided
Malacanang said Wednesday “no one can diminish” the 5-year-old arbitral award that junked Beijing’s sweeping maritime claims to the West Philippine Sea, despite China’s recent remark that the award was a piece of “wastepaper." ...
- July 15, 2021