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    • Benham Rise visits may be put in writing 

      Kabiling, Genalyn; Torregoza, Hannah (Manila Bulletin, March 17, 2017, on page 4)
      President Rodrigo Duterte is inclined to put in writing an agreement allowing China’s research ships into local waters. Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella assured that the President remains committed to protecting and ...
    • Binay: Who's really on top of Boracay clean-up? 

      Torregoza, Hannah (Manila Bulletin, June 25, 2018, on page 3)
      Binay made the call after a Senate hearing revealed that misunderstandings among concerned government agencies are causing delays on the rehabilitation programs on the popular tourist spot which Duterte had ordered to be ...
    • 'Lawin' damage to agriculture, fisheries tops P10.2 B, says DA 

      De Vera, Ellalyn B.; Wakefield, Francis T.; Antonio, Raymund F.; Torregoza, Hannah (Manila Bulletin, October 24, 2016, on page 4)
      Super-typhoon Lawin's (Haima's) damage to agriculture and fisheries has reached P 10.2 billion in northern Luzon, with rice, corn and vegetable suffering the highest losses, according to the Department of Agriculture (DA). ...
    • Loren defends Duterte against claims of sub-servience to China 

      Torregoza, Hannah (Manila Bulletin, June 4, 2018, on page 2)
      Senator Loren Legarda on Sunday defended the government from criticisms of subservience to China, saying it is only natural for the Duterte administration to exhaust all diplomatic means to resolve the tension in the West ...
    • No need to fight China; We can share - Duterte 

      Geducos, Argyll Cyrus B.; Mabasa, Roy C.; Torregoza, Hannah (Manila Bulletin, May 21, 2018, on page 1-12)
      President Duterte said that the Philippines and China do not need to go to war over the disputed West Philippine Sea when the two countries can share the resources found in the area. Duterte made the statement in Cebu over ...
    • 'PCG presence in WPS needed to protect Filipino fishermen' 

      Luci-Atienza, Charissa M.; Torregoza, Hannah; Wakefield, Francis T.; Mabasa, Roy C.; Antonio, Raymund F. (Manila Bulletin, June 11, 2018, on page 1-10)
      Bayan Muna Representative Carlos Isagani Zarate called on the Duterte administration yesterday to send Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) personnel to accompany and protect Filipino fishermen in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) or ...
    • PH welcomes int'l recognition of sea dispute with China 

      Torregoza, Hannah; Namit, Madel Sabater (Manila Bulletin, October 23, 2015, on page 8)
      The Philippine Mission to the United Nations (UN) welcomed the international community's increasing recognition that developments in the territorial dispute in the South China Sea is a concern of the international community ...
    • Senate sets next hearing for new 'Benham Rise Dev't Authority' 

      Torregoza, Hannah (Manila Bulletin, March 27, 2017, on page 1-6)
      The Senate forgers on with its bid for the creation of a Benham Rise Development rights over the territory recently visited by a Chinese vessel. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, who chairs the Senate Committee on Economic ...
    • Stronger PH military pressed amid sea dispute 

      Torregoza, Hannah; Mabasa, Roy (Manila Bulletin, June 18, 2018, on page 2)
      Senator Richard Gordon on Sunday urged the Duterte administration to beef up the country’s military capability so that China and other nations won’t look down on the Philippines as a pushover. Meantime, the Philippine ...