TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China’s newest and most powerful of its three aircraft carriers sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, the Taiwanese defense ministry said, a day after Taiwan began a five-day military exercise on responding to a Chinese attack. The Fujian carrier first sailed...
China 's word regarding its "suspicious" activities in the vicinity of Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough Shoal)--a fertile fishing ground well within Philippine territory--shouldn 't be taken at face value. Thus, said former House quad-committee (quad-comm) overall chairman Robert Ace...
Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said he is unfazed by sanctions imposed by China as the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Tuesday, June 23, also dismissed as a “joke” claims that military officers were preparing to file cases against him. Speaking in a...
More unilateral, bilateral, and multilateral patrols will be conducted near Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough or Panatag Shoal) in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) in the coming months, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) vowed on Tuesday, June 23, following the detection of a movable floating...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Monday, June 22, strongly rejected the recent statement of the Chinese Embassy in Manila questioning the validity of the 2016 South China Sea Arbitral Award, reiterating that the landmark ruling remains final, binding, and an integral part of international...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) deployed one of its 44-meter multi-role response vessels to confront a China Coast Guard (CCG) ship operating within the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the coast of Luzon. Rear Admiral Jay Tarriela, PCG spokesperson for West Philippine Sea (WPS), said...
China Bank Savings Inc., the thrift retail banking arm of Sy-led China Banking Corp., plans to push forward with its brick-and-mortar expansion, leaning on wider consumer margins to buffer against persistent inflation and elevated global interest rates. James Christian Dee, CBS president, said the...
Malacañang defended Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. over China 's imposition of sanctions against him, saying he was just performing his duties. While the Palace recognized that China has its own laws and policies, Teodoro was also doing his job...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has strongly refuted claims made by former Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio regarding the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, June 16, condemned China’s illegal installation of a floating platform and communications antenna at Bajo de Masinloc saying it only shows “how much of a bully” the Philippines’ neighbor is. “China has yet again violated international law, ignored the...
Stubborn inflation is forcing the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to seriously consider higher borrowing costs, a move that threatens to worsen the sharp economic slowdown already hitting the country. Since the BSP delivered a quarter-point hike to 4.5 percent in April, calls for further...
PARIS (AP) — From the outset, China wasn 't included when major powers gathered in 1975 at a chateau outside Paris to fix the slumping global economy, the first of what have become annual summits by the G7 club of wealthy nations to forward their interests. No surprise there. Imagining...
