Chinese sub to dive in West Philippine Sea: media
A Chinese submersible that last month set a new national record will dive in the South China Sea next year, state media said Tuesday, as Beijing asserts its claim over the resource-rich area.
A Chinese submersible that last month set a new national record will dive in the South China Sea next year, state media said Tuesday, as Beijing asserts its claim over the resource-rich area.
Very June 1, Romeo Rulloda, a fisherman, pulls his single-engine, 16-horsepower wooden boat to a dry dock and hangs his fishing lines near his house in the coastal village of Balingasay in Bolinao, Pangasinan.
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has ended the search for four fishermen whose boat was rammed by a foreign vessel in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) two weeks ago.
Here comes a different version of the Bolinao “ramming” incident—it may not have happened after all.
The Armed Forces ofthe Philippines is speeding up the deployment of surveillanceequipment which it hopes would, in tandem with newly acquired ships and helicopters, help it build a “modest deterrent capability” in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), parts of which are claimed by China and other countries.
The Philippines and China are talking again, and they are trying to work out a temporary solution to their dispute over Scarborough Shoal, Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said on Friday.
China on Friday accused the Philippines of escalating an already tense territorial dispute in the South China Sea following a noisy but peaceful anti-Chinese protest in Manila.
China has brushed aside the Philippines’ proposal to bring the Scarborough Shoal dispute to the International Tribunal on the Law of the Seas (ITLOS), which is based in Hamburg, Germany.
Odd-looking dinghies with markings of the Western Command stuck out like a sore thumb among camouflaged naval vessels lined up for the start on Monday of the military component of the annual war games between the Philippines and the United States.
Without referring to China and the Spratlys dispute in the West Philippine Sea (or South China Sea), the Philippines’ deputy permanent representative to the United Nations called on UN member-states to adhere to the rule of law in the resolution of international conflicts.
PUERTO PRINCESA—Naval authorities on Thursday arrested five Chinese nationals conducting illegal fishing off Palawan’s southernmost sea corridor in Balabac. Adm. Rostum Peña, Naval Forces West (Navforwest) commander, said the five were brought to Puerto Princesa on board BRP Apolinario Mabini on Saturday for the filing of charges. He said the Chinese fishermen were spotted aboard [...]
The Philippine government plans to auction off areas of the South China Sea for oil exploration, despite worsening territorial disputes with China over the area, an official said on Tuesday. Energy Undersecretary Jose Layug said several foreign firms, including China’s state-owned CNOOC Ltd., had already expressed interest in drilling for oil in waters off Palawan. [...]
China on Tuesday protested a planned trip by five Filipino lawmakers to a Philippine-occupied island in the disputed Spratlys chain in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), saying it would do nothing but undermine regional stability and “sabotage” bilateral ties. Chinese Embassy spokesperson Ethan Sun said Beijing would relay its “great concern” to Manila [...]
