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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 »

Chinese survey ship spotted in PH exclusive economic zone

Chiara Zambrano, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 23 06:25 PM

MANILA - A Chinese survey ship that was seen earlier this month sailing east of the Philippines was spotted once again inside the Philippine exclusive economic zone (EEZ), maritime experts have confirmed. Read more »

US raps China for ‘escalation’ in South China Sea

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 23 01:45 AM

China redeployed a government-owned survey vessel — with armed escorts — into the waters off Vietnam earlier this month, the US said.    Read more »

Locsin: Only PH-flagged ships allowed to survey country's waters

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 14 05:00 PM

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Wednesday reiterated only Filipino flagged ships are allowed to survey Philippine waters for now. Read more »

Chinese ship returns to Vietnam's exclusive economic zone

James Pearson and Khanh Vu, Reuters
Posted at Aug 14 06:36 AM

A Chinese survey ship returned to Vietnam's exclusive economic zone off its coast on Tuesday, ship tracking data showed, less than a week after it left the area where vessels from the two countries were locked in a month-long standoff.   Read more »

PH bans Chinese marine survey ships: Locsin

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 12 01:36 PM

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said Monday he has banned marine survey ships even of China, saying granting exception to one country “will automatically lift ban universally” and will “invite bribes.” Read more »

Duterte urged to raise issue of Chinese ships in Philippines' EEZ to Xi

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 11 04:36 PM

Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Sunday urged President Rodrigo Duterte to raise the increasing number of Chinese ships in the Philippines' exclusive economic zone in his upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Read more »

DFA 'firing off' diplomatic protest over Chinese vessels in PH waters

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Updated as of Aug 09 12:48 PM

MANILA - Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro "Teddy Boy' Locsin said the Philippines is filing a diplomatic protest following Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana’s statement questioning the presence of Chinese research vessels and warships in Philippine waters. Read more »

Lorenzana to China: What are Chinese research vessels, warships doing in our waters?

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Updated as of Aug 09 10:07 AM

Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Friday urged the Philippine government to ask Beijing why Chinese research vessels and warships are entering Philippine waters. Read more »

2 Chinese ships conducting marine research in Philippines' EEZ: analyst

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 08 03:52 PM

Two Chinese ships were recently seen operating in the Philippines' exclusive economic zone, a maritime expert said Wednesday. 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 »

Palace says China won't deplete resources in Philippine waters

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Posted at Jul 23 04:57 PM

Malacañang on Tuesday denied that Beijing would deplete resources in disputed waters if the Philippine government continues to allow them to venture into the area under a verbal deal between President Rodrigo Duterte and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.    Read more »

Analyst: Philippines has nothing to fear if it resists China

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Posted at Jul 20 03:08 AM

A maritime security analyst believes the Philippines has nothing to fear if it resists China's harassment at sea.  Read more »

What Filipino fishermen want to hear from Duterte's SONA

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 20 03:03 AM

Three days from now, President Duterte will deliver his 4th State of the Nation Address and one of the issues many Filipinos want the chief executive to address is his verbal deal with China's leader allowing the Chinese to fish in Philippine waters. Read more »

2 fishers claim PH Navy told them to disown writ of kalikasan plea

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Posted at Jul 17 01:41 AM

Two Filipino fishermen claim they were urged by the Philippine Navy into disowning a Supreme Court petition that sought to compel the Duterte government to protect the West Philippine Sea. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: July 12, 2019

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Posted at Jul 13 01:01 AM

Here are the big stories today in photos Read more »

SC Justice: Duterte-Xi verbal agreement becomes binding if raised at SONA

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Posted at Jul 13 12:17 AM

A Supreme Court justice warns of the consequences if President Duterte uses his State of the Nation Address to affirm a verbal agreement allowing China to fish in the Philippines' exclusive economic zone. Read more »

West Philippine Sea forum

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News?
Updated as of Jul 12 09:45 PM

Former Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales speaks at a forum on Friday in Bonifacio Global City coinciding with the 3rd anniversary of the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s verdict in the Hague upholding the Philippines’ sovereign rights to its exclusive economic zone.  Read more »

Bakit dapat tayong makialam sa West Philippine Sea?

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 11 03:23 PM

Nosebleed ka na ba sa isyu ng West Philippine Sea? Panoorin mo 'to. Read more »

Gov’t must reject ‘lopsided’ verbal agreement with China, says Carpio

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 04 10:36 PM

The Supreme Court justice said that with their numbers Chinese fishermen can quickly deplete the fish population in Reed Bank should they be allowed to play their trade there. Read more »