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Business groups to China: Remove ships from WPS
Eight business organizations have expressed support for calls made to China to pull out its vessels from Julian Felipe Reef in the West Philippine Sea. In a joint statement yesterday, business groups Philippine Chamber of ...
- April 15, 2021
'WPS becoming a national election issue'
Believing that China will try to influence next year’s national polls, former defense secretary Orlando Mercado and University of the Philippines Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea director Jay Batongbacal ...
- May 20, 2021
'US to use all tools to protect valid SCS claims'
Saying US policy on the South China Sea is now “crystal clear,” Washington announced it will use all tools and legal responses it can provide to protect valid claims of countries across the world which recognize that China ...
- July 17, 2020
No Manila Bay reclamation yet
The government will not allow any reclamation project in Manila Bay to proceed until President Duterte issues an executive order, Secretary to the Cabinet Karlo Nograles said yesterday. “Status quo for now until (the ...
- April 8, 2020
Phl banking on friendship with China to resolve reef issue
Malacañang is banking on its friendship with China to convince the Asian power to pull its vessels out of Julian Felipe Reef in the West Philippine Sea, even as it urged the public to allow President Duterte to address the ...
- April 16, 2021
Beijing claims 'consensus' reached on joint exploration
The Chinese government said it had reached a consensus with the Philippines on the conduct of joint exploration of resources in the South China Sea. Reacting to the decision of President Duterte to lift the moratorium on ...
- October 18, 2020
Cimatu has done right for Manila Bay
I really don’t know why there is a controversy over the use of Dolomite grains, which come from Alcoy, Cebu. That company that creates these Dolomites have been there for over 20 years already. When our biker groups go on ...
- September 15, 2020
San Juan River rehabilitation underway
The San Juan government has partnered with government agencies and the private sector to clean up San Juan River and its tributaries, according to Mayor Francis Zamora. During the launch of the “Adopt an Estero” rehabilitation ...
- January 29, 2021
'Lingering China vessels, boat in 2019 collision from same operator'
The Chinese vessels swarming around Julian Felipe (Whitsun) Reef in the West Philippine Sea operate from the same port where the ship that rammed and sank Philippine fishing boat FB GemVer in 2019 came from, a US think ...
- April 23, 2021
Coast Guard duty: interdict Chinese militia, escort Filipinos
It’s time to interdict Chinese poachers in the Philippines’ western exclusive economic zone. About 240 trawlers are pillaging Pagkakaisa (Union) Bank and Kalayaan Islands municipality of Palawan. Millions of kilos of ...
- April 16, 2021