Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 09:10:37 +0000
SINGAPORE – A top U.S. admiral says the Navy has not stepped up maritime patrols to challenge China’s sweeping territorial claims in the South China Sea but is maintaining a “consistent” presence in the disputed waters.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:39:30 +0000
China said Thursday its navy warned off a French warship that had entered the Taiwan Strait earlier this month and has lodged an official protest over the rare move by a European power.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 03:39:35 +0000
Opposition senatorial candidates has challenged President Duterte to be as bold versus China and its intrusion in Philippine territories.
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 14:51:17 +0000
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday reiterated that diplomacy was a better alternative to a military response to the dispute over the West Philippine (South China) Sea. Duterte was reacting to…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 03:56:11 +0000
MOST Filipinos believe that the case filed by former Philippine officials against Chinese President Xi Jinping before the International Criminal Court (ICC) tells the world that China should leave the…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 11:28:35 +0000
THE United States will “fly, sail and operate everywhere international law allows,” a US official said on Friday, despite a warning from China to “non-regional forces” to refrain from “stirring…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 11:03:02 +0000
THERE will be no additional troop deployments to the Kalayaan Group of Islands (Spratly Islands), Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Monday, even after President Rodrigo Duterte declared that he…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 07:50:02 +0000
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday declared that he would not allow China to occupy Pag-asa Island in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), amid the reported presence of Chinese…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: BERNADETTE E. TAMAYO| Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 11:40:37 +0000
THE presence of Chinese vessels near and around Pag-asa island and other maritime features in the Kalayaan Island Group (KIG) is “illegal,” an official of the Department of Foreign Affairs…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 12:01:08 +0000
HUNDREDS of Chinese vessels reportedly stationed around the Pag-asa Island in the disputed West Philippine (South China) Sea should immediately leave after the government filed a diplomatic protest, Malacanang said…READ
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