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Benham Rise
Benham Rise is not subject to any maritime boundary dispute unlike the Spratly Islands in the West Philippine Sea. People and governments have started to look into this undersea region because of the possible mineral and ...
- February 12, 2018
Del Rosario: Take SCS ruling to UN General Assembly
Since China has not stopped its bullying in the West Philippine Sea, former foreign affairs chief Albert del Rosario said the Philippines needs to drum up international support to compel Beijing to comply with an arbitral ...
- August 2, 2019
Leni, senators call for probe on Recto Bank incident
Vice President Leni Robredo has expressed support for calls to investigate and seek accountability over the sinking of a Filipino fishing boat hit by a Chinese vessel in Recto Bank in Palawan on Sunday. “I fully support ...
- June 14, 2019
Palace welcomes growing support for maritime case vs China
Malacañang yesterday welcomed the pronouncements of four US senators supporting the Philippines’ maritime case against China. Senators John McCain (Arizona), Jack Reed (Rhode Island), Bob Corker (Tennessee) and Ben Cardin ...
- July 20, 2015
Rody to 'ignore' SCS ruling for 60-40 deal with China
The Duterte administration will ignore the 2016 international arbitral court ruling favoring the Philippine position on the South China Sea to ensure “economic activity” in the country’s exclusive economic zone, including ...
- September 12, 2019
Enforcement of UNCLOS tribunal award by world naval powers
The world naval powers will enforce the Award by sailing and flying and conducting military activities, in the high seas and EEZs of the South China Sea: The US has declared that its military forces will continue to operate ...
- December 13, 2018
'Multilateral approach needed vs China tactics'
The government should now consider a “multilateral approach” to dealing with China’s “bullying” at sea, underlined on Sunday by the sinking of a Filipino fishing boat by a Chinese vessel, which hurriedly sailed away without ...
- June 14, 2019
Satellite images confirm surge of China vessels in WPS
Satellite, radar and infrared images taken over a span of six months last year showed an alarming increase of fishing vessels – mostly Chinese – in the West Philippine Sea that not only have further degraded marine resources ...
- January 12, 2019
Asean airs concern on new China sea law
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has expressed concern over recent developments in the South China Sea, after China imposed a controversial new fisheries law requiring all foreign vessels to obtain approval ...
- January 20, 2014
Is new Philippine isle in Chinese hands?
Sandy Cay is a newly formed isle from sandbars three nautical miles off Pag-Asa, the main part of Palawan’s Kalayaan town. A word war rages between Alejano and Cayetano over China’s reported grab of the isle under the ...
- June 20, 2018