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Why Pres. Aquino held back comments on U.S. warship foray into Subi Reef

    By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS In President Aquino’s  talk with the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines last Tuesday, about a third of the questions were about the challenge of the  United States to  China’s  claim of sovereignty on the surrounding waters of its artificially-created islands  in Spratlys in the South China Sea, which

Why Pres. Aquino held back comments on U.S. warship foray into Subi Reef

PH wins round one in UN Arbitral Tribunal case vs China

The United Nations Arbitral Tribunal ruled on Thursday that it has jurisdiction to hear the case filed by the Philippines against China over the disputed areas in the  South China Sea. In its claim, the Philippines asked the arbitral tribunal to rule on three basic issues: The validity of China’s nine-dash lines Low tide elevations

PH wins round one in UN Arbitral Tribunal  case vs China

U.S., China agree to avoid unintended war

                                 By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS BEHIND the provocative rhetoric by American and Chinese officials over the plan of the United States to test freedom of navigation in the South China Sea after China has reclaimed some 2,900 acres of land

U.S., China agree to avoid unintended war

PH, Vietnam to hold naval drills, scientific research in South China Sea

 By TESSA JAMANDRE and ELLEN TORDESILLAS THE Philippines and Vietnam have agreed to conduct joint naval drills and scientific studies amid concerns over China’s intensified reclamations in the South China Sea. The planned activities are part of the soon-to-be signed “Joint Statement on the Establishment of a Strategic Partnership between the Republic of the Philippines

PH, Vietnam to hold naval drills, scientific research in South China Sea

Del Rosario’s wishful thinking

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario sounded very pleased that t the United States is preparing for an armed confrontation with China in the South China Sea without any concern of its constitutional complications for the Philippines. In an interview with ANC, del Rosario once again held on to a pronouncement

Del Rosario’s wishful thinking

China’s latest expansion to deny PH access to Ayungin shoal

By TESSA JAMANDRE CHINA has created new artificial islets in two more reefs in the disputed South China Sea, which the Philippine military fears is meant to choke off its access to Ayungin shoal, where a crumbling Philippine Navy ship is beached. In an interview, former Air Force officer Rep. Francisco Acedillo, now partylist representative

China’s latest expansion to deny PH access to Ayungin shoal

State Dept official: U.S. takes no position on South China Sea conflict

  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS CHINA’S activities in the South China Sea, not surprisingly, figured prominently in the fifth Philippines-United States Bilateral Strategic Dialogue held Tuesday and Wednesday in Manila. The joint statement on the meeting, co-chaired by Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Evan P. Garcia and Undersecretary of National Defense Pio Lorenzo F. Batino for

State Dept official: U.S. takes no position on South China Sea conflict

Magdalo Rep scores neglect of PH-occupied territories in Spratlys

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IN the power point presentation Rep. Ashley Acedillo of the Magdalo Party showed last Wednesday, he compared the massive fortification and expansion of the Chinese of their occupied reefs in the disputed Spratlys area in the South China with the miserable state of the islands and reefs occupied by the Philippines.

Magdalo Rep scores neglect of PH-occupied territories in Spratlys