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Indonesia’s New Year’s message to China over the Natunas dispute: A game changer?

Romel Regalado Bagares*, VERA Files
Posted at Jan 05 09:31 PM

For the first time, a 3rd party ASEAN member-state invoked the landmark 2016 arbitral ruling in the South China Sea case filed by the Philippines 3 years earlier against Chinese expansionism. Read more »

Duterte administration refuses to pay P7-B compensation to Manila Water

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 06 11:29 PM

One lawmaker warns a failure to pay up could mean more losses for the country. Read more »

Retired SC Justice Jardeleza says willing to help in West PH Sea issue

Michael Delizo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 20 04:54 PM

Jardeleza led the Philippine legal team that won the arbitral ruling against China during his time as solicitor general in 2014. Read more »

Del Rosario insists on raising PH arbitral win before UN

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 20 05:21 PM

But Malacañang rejected former foreign affairs chief Albert Del Rosario's call since it prefers the "ongoing peaceful negotiations" with China. Read more »

Del Rosario urges PH gov't to raise arbitral win to 74th UN General Assembly

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 17 12:38 AM

MANILA—The country's former top diplomat urged the Duterte government anew to bring up the Philippines' legal victory against China over the South China Sea as world leaders gather at the 74th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly Tuesday. Read more »

'PH arbitral win di tatalikuran para sa joint oil, gas exploration'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 13 07:56 PM

Itinanggi ni Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. na handa nang talikuran ng Malacañang ang arbitral award para bigyang daan ang joint oil and gas exploration sa West Philippine Sea. Read more »

Ex-DFA chief: No need to set aside Hague ruling to have economic activity in EEZ

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Posted at Sep 13 12:04 AM

A former Philippine foreign affairs secretary and a maritime law expert expressed caution over the government's potential joint oil and gas exploration with China in the West Philippine Sea. Read more »

Locsin: Joint exploration deal with China won't compromise Hague victory

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 11 11:57 PM

No compromise on the Philippines' arbitral victory over China: that's the assurance of the country's top diplomat after President Rodrigo Duterte revealed Beijing wants the ruling ignored to make way for the joint oil and gas exploration deal in the West Philippine Sea. Read more »

UK, France, Germany express concern over situation in South China Sea

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Posted at Sep 02 08:06 PM

MANILA - The United Kingdom, France and Germany have expressed concern over the current situation in the South China Sea. Read more »

Duterte, Xi agree on need to finalize 'code of conduct' in West PH Sea

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Posted at Aug 31 12:22 AM

The Philippines' territorial dispute and joint exploration deal with China are put on the table as President Rodrigo Duterte holds bilateral talks in Beijing with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Read more »

Xi rejects Philippines' arbitral win in South China Sea

Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 30 08:48 AM

MANILA—Chinese President Xi Jinping rejected the Philippines' legal victory against China on the South China Sea after President Rodrigo Duterte raised the arbitral ruling during their bilateral meeting in Beijing Thursday.   Read more »

Duterte-Xi meeting may lead to acceleration of S. China Sea code: ex-diplomat

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Updated as of Aug 29 09:08 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte's raising of the 2016 arbitral ruling against China in his fifth visit to Beijing may accelerate the signing of the code of conduct in the disputed South China Sea, a former diplomat said Thursday. Read more »

‘Whether you like it or not’: Duterte insists citing arbitral win in talks with Xi

Pia Gutierrez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 21 09:05 PM

“If I’m not allowed as a president of a sovereign nation to talk whatever I want to talk about then let us not rather talk altogether,” Duterte said, on the 2016 UN arbitral ruling. Read more »

Shock and awe aboard the USS Ronald Reagan

Chiara Zambrano, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 19 11:08 AM

The scene on the USS Ronald Reagan is undeniably cinematic, harking back to old-time macho favorites like Top Gun, conjuring images of Maverick, Iceman, and Goose that I never even realized I still had. Read more »

Nograles: Isyu sa West Philippine Sea, pag-uusapan sa 'tamang panahon'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 13 12:50 AM

Tiniyak ni Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles na pag-usapan ang isyu ng arbitral award kaugnay ng West Philippine Sea, pero hindi dapat pinangungunahan ang diskarte rito ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte. Read more »

60-40 resource sharing between PH and China is 'good for us' says Panelo

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Posted at Aug 11 08:56 PM

Malacañang again said on Sunday that a proposed 60-40 sharing of possible oil resources in the West Philippine Sea between the Philippines and China is good for the country. Read more »

China still rejects PH arbitral win in South China Sea case

Sherrie Ann Torres, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 09 07:01 PM

MANILA – Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jianhua on Friday said Beijing's rejection of Manila's arbitral victory over the South China Sea will remain, as President Rodrigo Duterte said he would finally bring up the landmark ruling with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Read more »

OPINION: ‘Possession’ or ‘position’ controversy turns ludicrous

Ellen T. Tordesillas
Posted at Jul 27 04:41 PM

Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo’s explanation of the President’s declaration of his helplessness about the situation in the West Philippine Sea because China is “in possession” of disputed geographical features in the area has made the mess messier. Read more »

Carpio may mungkahi para maipatupad ang naipanalong kaso vs China

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 15 08:33 PM

Naglatag si Senior Associate Justice Carpio ng mga mungkahi para maipatupad ang naipanalong kaso laban sa China. Read more »

Gobyerno, mga eksperto nagkontrahan sa Hague ruling sa West PH Sea

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 12 10:03 PM

Gaya ng laging sinasabi ng Palasyo, walang magagawa ang Pilipinas dahil kung igigiit ang ruling ay maaaring magkagiyera. Read more »