Tingog Party-list Rep. Jude Acidre (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) It's only right for the Philippine government to send home foreign diplomats that abuse Filipino hospitality. Thus, said House Deputy Majority LeaderTingog Party-list Rep....
Civic leader Teresita Ang See has questioned the further tightening of visa requirements for Chinese nationals, which the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) made amid the increasing number of fraudulent applications it is receiving. In a statement, Ang See said that strict visa requirements for...
Over 160 Chinese nationals engaged in offshore gambling in the Philippines were repatriated to China from Manila Tuesday, May 14. Their repatriation was described as "significant achievement of the law enforcement cooperation between China and the Philippines" by the Chinese Embassy in Manila,...
Those involved in the supposed phone conversation for the “new model” agreement from the Chinese Embassy in Manila should be expelled from the country not only for violating Philippines laws but also for the brazen breach of the diplomatic protocol, National Security Adviser Eduardo Año said...
The Philippine government is tightening its requirements for Chinese nationals applying for Philippine visas, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced on Thursday, May 9. DFA said that the move is aimed at countering the increasing number of fraudulent applications the Philippine...
China has recorded a purported phone conversation allegedly between a Philippine military official and a Chinese diplomat. Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. hit China for doing so, calling its action as wiretapping, an act illegal under Philippine law. According to...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) criticized China for its move to release to the media information about an unverifiable phone call supposedly between a Philippine military official and a Chinese diplomat concerning a “new model” for deployment of vessels in the West Philippine Sea. The...
​A​ ranking official from the Chinese embassy in Manila said it would eventually release the recording of a supposed phone call between its diplomat and a Philippine military official who agreed to a ​"new model​" in the management of the dispute in the West Philippine...
A diplomatic source from the Chinese embassy in Manila on Tuesday, May 7, disclosed what was supposedly contained under the “new model” that the Philippine government allegedly entered into with China on the resupply of the BRP Sierra Madre in the West Philippine Sea. While various...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Sunday, May 5, denied the existence of a “new model,” which is claimed by the Chinese Embassy in Manila, to manage disputes in the Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal. The China Coast Guard (CCG) is caught in a video shadowing the Philippine vessels in...
Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro has barred the Department of National Defense (DND) from making any contact with the Chinese Embassy in Manila over what he described as devious machination to manipulate and the discussion on the West Philippine Sea. “I reiterate that I have disallowed any...
China claimed that the Philippines had to limit the area where Filipino fishermen could fish and where Filipino troops could fly over and navigate in the Scarborough Shoal. That's what the Philippines supposedly entered into with China seven years ago to manage differences over the South China Sea,...
