VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte DID NOT say Aquino, Carpio ‘sold’ WPS to China
The 16-minute video’s content, composed of two clips, also did not support the claim in its headline.
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Carpio says Duterte’s statement on passage of foreign ships violates UNCLOS
Following reports by the military two weeks ago about five Chinese warships passing through Philippine waters, President Duterte last Tuesday issued a statement requiring all foreign vessels to notify Philippine authorities and to get clearance ahead of their passage.
Carpio: SONA makes PH-China verbal fishing deal ‘legally binding’ but violates PH charter
If President Rodrigo Duterte makes a statement about his verbal fishing deal with China in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 22, then it would become “legally binding” under international law. But it would still be unconstitutional.
Carpio reveals DFA’s timely clarification on Duterte’s 2016 statement saved PH Arbitral Tribunal win
A timely clarification by the Department of Foreign Affairs of President Duterte’s statement setting aside the Arbitral Court ruling on the South China Sea dispute saved the Philippine win, Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio said in a forum on Maritime Disputes in the South China Sea Friday.
When silence means consent
China has denied that they are building an environmental monitoring station in Scarborough Shoal which they call “Huangyan Dao” as reported by Reuters last week based on a news report in the Chinese language newspaper Hainan Daily.
Ways to make China comply if U.N. ruling on SCS favors PH
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THE Philippines is not exactly helpless if the United Nations Arbitral Court decides in our favor in the case we filed against China and China ignores it. The Hague-based U.N. Artbitral Court is expected to decide on the case on July 7. In Jan. 2013, the Philippine asked the U.N.
Justice Carpio explains Itu Aba issue in the PH suit vs China
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS LAST year, Itu Aba (also known as Taiping or Ligaw), the biggest feature in the Spratly group of islands being disputed by the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan, figured in a controversy involving the appointment of the Solicitor General Francis Jardeleza to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court Justice
Justice Carpio: China’s 9-dashed line- grand theft of Global Commons
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS CHINA’s 9-dashed line map, which was recently expanded to 10 dashes, goes against the “concept of global commons” which was the foundation of the 1982 United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea, Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio said in a speech delivered on the 75th Anniversary of the
Justice Carpio debunks China’s historical claim of South China Sea
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS USING China’s very own ancient maps, Justice Antonio T. Carpio debunked the Asian superpower’s ownership claims of almost the whole of South China Sea based on “historical facts.” In a lecture at De La Salle University “Historical Facts, Historical Lies and Historical Rights in the West Philippine Sea,” Carpio took up
