From GMA News online:
MALACAÑANG is not keen on lodging a diplomatic protest against China over its reported building of a lighthouse in a Philippine-claimed area of the Spratly Islands.
THE Department of National Defense yesterday downplayed China’s reported construction of a lighthouse at the Subi reef in the disputed Spratly Islands, saying the structure was probably old, put up eight years ago.
By TESSA JAMANDRE
CHINA has constructed a lighthouse on Subi Reef in the disputed areas in the South China Sea which Chinese troops are occupying but is being claimed by the Philippines and Vietnam.
By TESSA JAMANDRE EVEN before the diplomatic tension created by the Aug. 23 hostage crisis has subsided, President Beningo Aquino III will have to deal with another strain on the country’s relationship with China: the dormant yet sensitive issue of the contested Spratly Islands. The Spratlys dispute will be high on the agenda when Aquino
By TESSA JAMANDRE THREE months after three other countries formally submitted to the United Nations their claims over the disputed Kalayaan Island Group (KIG), the Philippines finally registered its protests to those claims. Two protests to the unilateral submissions of Vietnam and Palau and another on the Joint Submission of Malaysia and Vietnam were filed
By TESSA JAMANDRE THE Philippines has filed before the United Nations a claim over Benham Rise, an extinct volcanic ridge off the east coast of Luzon, beating the May 13 deadline for states to submit claims over their extended continental shelves. The Philippine delegation deposited the claim with the UN Commission on the Limits of
By TESSA JAMANDREINTERNATIONAL law and constitutional law experts are set to ask the Supreme Court on Wednesday to nullify the three-week-old Archipelagic Baselines Law, barely a month before the May 13 deadline for the Philippine government to submit to the United Nations its claim over its extended continental shelf under the UN Convention on the
By TESSA JAMANDRE THE Philippines will soon initiate border talks with its neighbors and finally confront territorial issues it has long avoided, the most contentious being the dispute with Malaysia over Sabah, now that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has signed the Philippine Archipelagic Baseline Law. The Baseline Law defines the limits of Philippine territory. It is
MALACANANG got its way in drawing the country’s archepelagic baseline after all. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives agreed in Monday’s bicameral conference to adopt the Palace position to treat the disputed Kalayaan Island Group (KIG) and the Scarborough Shoal as “regimes of islands of the Republic of the Philippines” instead of enclosing
FORMER Cabinet members are asking Congress to pass immediately a law that would define the country’s baseline in keeping with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea or UNCLOS. The Former Senior Government Officials (FSGO), in a statement issued on July 11, cited the need to enact a baseline law in