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Quo Vadis Scarborough Shoal?

International opinion supporting Philippine position will not force China to give back Scarborough Shoal to the Philippines. The Philippines has to initiate that. Does the Philippines then have the will to carry out an operation to liberate Bajo de Masinloc/Scarborough Shoal from Chinese control?

Quo Vadis Scarborough Shoal?

10 years after arbitral award, Pinoy fishermen struggle for fishing space vs China

For fishermen in Zambales, the Philippines’ legal victory at the Arbitral Tribunal has not translated into greater access. “The 2016 ruling may have mattered at the top level, but we don’t feel it when we’re out at sea,” said Leonardo Cuaresma, who’s been fishing at Bajo de Masinloc for almost five decades and president of the New Masinloc Fishermen Association.

10 years after arbitral award, Pinoy fishermen struggle for fishing space vs China

Why the 28 day-delay in reacting to water cannon incident

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS   WHY did it take Armed Forces Chief of Staff Emmanuel Bautista almost a month to tell the President and the Department of Foreign Affairs about the Chinese Coast Guards using water cannons against Filipino fishermen in Bajo de Masinloc? The incident was reported when Bautista told Monday the foreign correspondents in

Why the 28 day-delay in reacting to water cannon incident

AFP probers say US, not China, put concrete blocks in Bajo de Masinloc

THE concrete blocks in Bajo de Masinloc, which Philippine defense and military officials last month accused China of putting there, may have actually been placed by the United States Navy decades ago, military sources said. A military investigation found that the concrete slabs were covered by algae, an indication that they had been in the area

AFP probers say US, not China, put concrete blocks in Bajo de Masinloc

PH, China in battle of photos on Scarborough shoal

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS Concrete blocks or just rocks and corals? That is the latest question troubling the strained relationship between the Philippines and China over the disputed Bajo de Masinloc, also known as Scarborough Shoal, off the South China Sea. This time, though, the dispute is playing out through photographs, more than words. A week

PH, China in battle of photos on Scarborough shoal