Archive - South China Sea

By JOSEPH ARNEL DELIVERIO Sibugay Express and VERA Files MORO National Liberation Front chairman Nur Misuari will question the legality of the recent oil exploration and drilling in the Sulu Sea, saying such activities should be coursed through the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and not through the national government. Misuari issued the statement during

By TESSA JAMANDRE THREE months after three other countries formally submitted to the United Nations their claims over the disputed Kalayaan Island Group (KIG), the Philippines finally registered its protests to those claims. Two protests to the unilateral submissions of Vietnam and Palau and another on the Joint Submission of Malaysia and Vietnam were filed

By TESSA JAMANDRE    THE Philippines has filed before the United Nations a claim over Benham Rise, an extinct volcanic ridge off the east coast of Luzon, beating the May 13 deadline for states to submit claims over their extended continental shelves. The Philippine delegation deposited the claim with the UN Commission on the Limits of

By TESSA JAMANDREINTERNATIONAL law and constitutional law experts are set to ask the Supreme Court on Wednesday to nullify the three-week-old Archipelagic Baselines Law, barely a month before the May 13 deadline for the Philippine government to submit to the United Nations its claim over its extended continental shelf under the UN Convention on the

By TESSA JAMANDRE THE Philippines will soon initiate border talks with its neighbors and finally confront territorial issues it has long avoided, the most contentious being the dispute with Malaysia over Sabah, now that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has signed the Philippine Archipelagic Baseline Law. The Baseline Law defines the limits of Philippine territory. It is