PH won back 540,000 square km of WPS after 2016 arbitral ruling – Bensurto
Unlike the claim of China and former president Rodrigo Duterte, the 2016 arbitral ruling on the South China Sea is not “just a piece of paper.”
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Carpio renews call to ‘pile up’ more arbitral awards against China over ‘baseless’ claim of WPS
Retired associate justice Antonio Carpio renewed his call for the Philippines to “pile up more arbitral awards” against China to negate its “baseless and expansive” claim of almost the entire South China Sea.
2 ex-SC justices air opposing views on absolute divorce
Retired chief justice Hilario Davide asserts that absolute divorce violates select provisions of the 1987 Constitution, but former associate justice Conchita Carpio-Morales argues that conditions of the supreme law should consider realities of domestic abuses and family problems.
PH arbitral win in South China Sea ‘more than a dispute on rocks’
The biggest impact of the ruling, Bensurto reminded, is that "we were able to prove China wrong" at a sound and legal tribunal.
The ‘inexhaustible well’ of Sarajevo
Almost 30 years after the siege that lasted 1, 425 days, Sarajevo's battle scars are still all over the place.
Inside the psyche of itinerant vloggers
Vloggers or bloggers, famous or infamous, are the new celebrities of the country’s media landscape.
Pastoral vs. brutal: The Filipino farmer in Art
Filipino painters have often painted the rural landscape in bucolic settings: a nipa hut by a stream, coconut trees and bamboo groves, carabaos and their mud baths, or the planting and harvesting rice. They have also honored the Filipino farmers in their works.
Nothing-Burger? U.S. obligation to defend the Philippines in the South China Sea
American obligation to defend the Philippines in the South China Sea is a nothing-burger. The question for Filipinos is whether they would risk upgrading this obligation under a renegotiated MDT given the certainty of a conflict between U.S. and China for dominance in the region. The question for Americans is whether they would be willing to foot the bill with their lives on tiny rocks thousands of miles across the Pacific.
The importance of being an Angara
Aurora province is decidedly the bailiwick of the Angara political family. Eight Angaras have so far sat in various elective positions in the province and in its capital of Baler.
Fact-checkers unite vs disinfo peddlers, censorship
“Without an independent, self-sustaining media, it is impossible to guarantee citizens the information they need to oppose the government,” says Harvard prof Steven Levitsky.
