VERA Files
Retired Justice Antonio Carpio has urged President Ferdinand Marcos to provide security for the drilling operations of Forum Energy Ltd. when the company resumes its stalled oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea.
Isang samahan ng mga Tsino, sa paghingi ng paumanhin na ipinaabot sa Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) bunga ng insidente noong Hunyo 9 kung saan isang barkong Tsino ay napalubog ang isang bangka ng mga mangingisda mula sa Pilipinas, ay mali sa pagsasabi na ang Reed Bank, na lokal na kilala bilang Recto Bank, ay bahagi ng Nansha Island Group.
A Chinese association, in an apology sent to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on the June 9 incident where a Chinese vessel sunk a Philippine fishing boat, is wrong in saying Reed Bank, locally known as Recto Bank, is part of the Nansha Island Group.
Tatlong taon na ang nakalipas, inilabas ng Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) ang makasaysayang desisyon nito na pumabor sa Pilipinas laban sa China tungkol sa pinagtatalunang teritoryo sa South China Sea.
Mali si Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III sa pahayag na “napakahirap” matukoy ang sovereign rights ng Pilipinas sa exclusive economic zone (EEZ) nito.
Watch how the Palace’s position on the issue evolved.
The law establishes the country’s baselines, which were used to map out its EEZ.
This story is fake. Don’t believe it.
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte is correct when he questioned recently whether China can actually claim a huge swath of the ocean – by which he meant the Chinese Nine Dash Line Claim over practically the entire South China Sea (including portions we refer to as the West Philippine Sea).
Writer Floy Quintos wrote this poem after he watched Junel Insigne, captain of the fishing boat Gem-Ver, which was rammed by a Chinese fishing boat midnight of June 9, beside Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol in a press conference June 19.