VERA Files
Former foreign secretary Albert Del Rosario on Monday accused President Rodrigo Duterte of betraying the public’s trust, an impeachable offense, for failing to stand up to China and assert the country’s claims in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) asupheld by the 2016 arbitral ruling in The Hague.
Months before the second anniversary of the Arbitral Tribunal’s decision on the case filed by the Philippines to nullify China’s nine-dash line map and other issues in the South China Sea, China commissioned a study which was completed in December 2017.
BY ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS The government paid $7 million in legal fees to the international team that gave the Philippines its landmark victory against China over the disputed features in the South China Sea, a member of the Philippine delegation to The Hague hearings said. The source who asked for anonymity said the $7 million […]
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS PRESIDENTIAL Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda was being catty when he dismissed as “KSP” lawyer Harry Roque’s criticism of the huge Philippine delegation to the hearing of the U.N. Arbitral Tribunal of the case filed by the Philippines against China in The Hague, Netherlands. Roque raised a valid issue. He said: “With only […]