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FAST FACTS: Why South China Sea is world's 'most important' sea route

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 19 05:28 PM

Here are some reasons why the disputed area has been dubbed as the world's "most important" sea route, according to Associate Justice Antonio Carpio: Read more »

Carpio to Filipinos: Rebut China's 'fake news' on South China Sea ownership

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Posted at Jul 19 04:48 PM

MANILA - Filipinos should consistently educate the Chinese why their sweeping claims in the South China Sea is the "fake history of the millennium, the fake news of the century," Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio said Friday. Read more »

Carpio: Duterte invoking PH-US defense treaty another 'jetski' joke

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Updated as of Jul 18 06:12 AM

MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte was "just joking" when he said the United States should enforce its Mutual Defense Treaty with the Philippines amid maritime tensions in the disputed West Philippine Sea.   Read more »

Vietnam, China embroiled in South China Sea standoff

James Pearson and Khanh Vu, Reuters
Posted at Jul 17 03:15 PM

Vietnamese and Chinese ships have been embroiled in a weeks-long standoff near an offshore oil block in disputed waters of the South China Sea, which fall within Vietnam's exclusive economic zone, two Washington-based think-tanks said on Wednesday. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: July 16, 2019

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Posted at Jul 16 11:55 PM

Here are the big stories today in photos Read more »

Praying for the West Philippine Sea

Aaron Favila, AP
Posted at Jul 16 04:52 PM

Filipino Catholics and activists sing after a mass outside the Philippine Senate in Manila on Tuesday. Read more »

US-China trade officials to talk again 'this week': official

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 16 07:33 AM

Top US and Chinese trade negotiators are due to speak by telephone in the coming days, but no face-to-face talks have been scheduled yet, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday.  Read more »

Enforcing Hague victory remains a challenge, says SC magistrate

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Updated as of Jul 12 11:32 AM

MANILA - The administration of President Rodrigo Duterte is doing all it can to handle the situation with China in the West Philippine Sea, three years after the country won its arbitral victory at the Hague. Read more »

Filipinos should want PH to regain control of China-occupied islands: Palace

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 11 03:18 PM

All Filipinos should want the government to regain control of China-occupied islands in the West Philippine Sea, a Palace official said Thursday.  Read more »

3 years later, did Duterte quash Philippines' legal win vs China?

Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 09 03:44 PM

The UN-backed tribunal's ruling remains a “paper victory,” said maritime lawyer Jay Batongbacal, largely because of the Duterte administration’s decision to set it aside in exchange for improved economic ties with China. Read more »

Panelo says yet to receive copy of Recto Bank report

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Updated as of Jul 07 11:40 PM

The President's spokesman on Sunday said he has yet to receive a copy of the report of Philippine maritime authorities into the ramming of a Chinese ship into an anchored Filipino boat near Recto Bank. Read more »

Reed Bank report shows Palace downplayed incident, opposition solons say

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Updated as of Jul 07 02:59 PM

The report of Philippine maritime authorities on the Recto (Reed) Bank incident proves that Malacañang "clearly downplayed" the incident, opposition lawmakers said Saturday. Read more »

Sison says US could order arrest of 'traitor' Duterte

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Posted at Jul 07 11:59 AM

Exiled communist leader Joma Sison on Saturday claimed the United States could influence Philippine military and police to arrest President Rodrigo Duterte "as a traitor."   Read more »

Confused over gov’t policy in West PH Sea? Just listen to Duterte, says Malacañang

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 04 03:51 PM

MANILA- If you’re confused on what is the government’s policy in the West Philippine Sea, then just listen to President Rodrigo Duterte, Malacañang said Thursday.   Read more »

Palace confident West PH Sea issue won’t affect Duterte’s popularity

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 04 05:12 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte’s popularity will remain unscathed even as criticism on his handling of Manila’s maritime dispute with Beijing persists, Malacañang said Thursday.  Read more »

Conflicting Cabinet remarks on China? Nograles explains

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 03 04:36 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte's men's "seemingly conflicting responses," recently on issues on China, could be due to scarcity of details, an official said.  Read more »

Duterte-Xi fishing deal an ‘agreement to agree’: Cabinet official

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 03 03:16 PM

Unless the supposed verbal fishing deal on disputed waters between President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping is translated into a formal one, it remains only as an “agreement to come into an agreement,” Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said Wednesday.   Read more »

DFA chief to ask China: 'Be careful of swarming'

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Updated as of Jul 03 11:44 AM

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin on Wednesday said he would ask China to be careful of deploying large numbers of vessels to avoid a repeat of the sinking of a Filipino fishing boat by a Chinese craft in the West Philippine Sea. Read more »

PH's Recto Bank report 'doesn't paint fishermen in brightest light': DFA chief

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Updated as of Jul 03 10:05 AM

The findings of a government investigation into the sinking of a Filipino boat by a Chinese vessel in the West Philippine Sea "doesn't paint our fishermen in the brightest lights", Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin said Wednesday. Read more »

Hilbay seeks Senate probe into Duterte's deal with China

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Updated as of Jul 03 09:54 AM

Former Solicitor Gen. Florin Hilbay on Wednesday said the Senate must conduct an investigation into the "informal agreement" of President Rodrigo Duterte with China that allows it to fish in Manila's exclusive economic zone. Read more »