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Rody to ask China for Scarborough fishing access
Days before leaving for a state visit to China, President Duterte yesterday said he would set aside the Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal issue for now but vowed to ask the Chinese government to allow Filipinos to fish in the ...
- October 11, 2016
Phl backs US plan to navigate disputed seas
The Philippines yesterday expressed support for the United States’ plan to conduct freedom of navigation operations in disputed areas in the South China Sea. This came after US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and ...
- October 14, 2015
Phl ready for next round of arbitration on sea dispute
The Philippines is gearing up for the next round of its legal battle with China before the international arbitral tribunal over the West Philippine Sea, with hearings on the merits of Manila's case against Beijing set on ...
- November 14, 2015
Phl seen backtracking on sea Code of Conduct
The Philippines is slinking from passing an ASEAN-China Code of Conduct in the disputed seas between them. This, when Manila is supposed to lead ASEAN as chair on its 50th year this 2017, an international maritime law ...
- August 23, 2017
WPS issue 'haunts' Lorenzana every day
The country’s issues with China over the West Philippine Sea remain a problem that haunts Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana every day. He said there is currently a stalemate on the matter of who occupies which island in ...
- December 27, 2018
Duterte: no weapons in island occupation
No new weapons are being eyed for islets and land features in the West Philippine Sea over which President Duterte wants the military to exercise greater control. The President made the clarification yesterday at the Davao ...
- April 11, 2017
China's Spratlys baseline plan exceeds nine-dash line
China’s plan to draw straight baselines around the Spratly Islands and declare much of South China Sea as part of its internal water closed to foreign planes and ships would further escalate tensions in the region, according ...
- March 26, 2019
Barter system emerging in disputed shoal
A barter system is slowly emerging in Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal, with Filipino fishermen exchanging their catch for food from their Chinese counterparts. A military official privy to the ongoing maritime and territorial ...
- March 29, 2018
Palace: Hague ruling not shelved but unenforceable
The Duterte administration never shelved the arbitral ruling on the South China Sea (SCS), Malacañang said yesterday, after the Philippines’ former top diplomat urged the government to “unshelve” the landmark decision that ...
- April 15, 2019
Aussie-Phl group to drill for oil in disputed waters
Amid an increasingly tense territorial dispute between the Philippines and China, an Australian-Filipino consortium is set to drill a new deepwater exploratory well in the resource-rich West Philippine Sea, hoping to tap ...
- July 20, 2015