The Department of Justice (DOJ) is now preparing to file charges against and seek damages from China over its destruction of the marine environment in the West Philippine Sea, former Supreme Court (SC) associate justice Antonio Carpio bared on Wednesday, March 6. His pronouncement was a...
Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday, March 6 urged Malacañang to fast track the filing of a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that calls on China to stop the harassment of Filipinos in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). Hontiveros’ statement comes after...
President Marcos bared that his proposal to establish a direct line of communication between him and Chinese President Xi Jinping has yet to materialize amid maritime tensions. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. and Chinese President Xi Jinping "Not yet, I'm afraid," Marcos said when asked...
​China is against the Philippine Senate's passing of the Maritime Zones Act as it said the measure will only advance the enforcement of what it claims as illegal arbitral award on the South China Sea. Mao Ning, China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, said Tuesday that the Philippines is...
China on Tuesday, March 5, warned that its actions in the West Philippine Sea would continue despite the Philippine government’s recent diplomatic protest in relation to Beijing’s latest water cannon attack and dangerous maneuver against Philippine vessels. Asserting its unilateral claim...
Allies are standing by the Philippines after two Philippine vessels experienced dangerous maneuvers from China, with one of them colliding with a Chinese vessel and left four Filipinos injured. The United States, the European Union, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, France,...
No amount of dangerous maneuvers and deployment of water cannon will discourage the Philippines in continuing its rotation and resupply missions for Filipino troops on board the BRP Sierra Madre at the Ayungin Shoal, the National Task Force-West Philippine Sea (NTF-WPS) said on Tuesday, March 5,...
The Philippine government on Tuesday, March 5, asked a Chinese diplomat in Manila to explain China's blocking of path of a Philippine vessel traversing the country's territorial waters. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFDA) said it summoned the Deputy Chief of Mission of the Chinese embassy...
Two senators on Tuesday, March 5 denounced the latest harassment of a China Coast Guard (CCG) vessel during a resupply mission of the BRP Sindangan to the grounded BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal. “I stand in solidarity with the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Philippine Coast...
The European Union's (EU) top diplomat in Manila said Tuesday, March 5, he was "concerned" about China's apparent "aggression" in the West Philippine Sea when its coast guard made a dangerous maneuver against its Philippine counterpart that eventually led to a collision. In a post on X, EU...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (Speaker’s office, MANILA BULLETIN Speaker Martin Romualdez says the House of Representatives is firmly behind President Marcos' commitment to protecting the country's...
Despite Tuesdy's incident of dangerous maneuver that led to a collision of ships from both sides, China denied anew committing any harassment against the Philippines. "There is no such situation of China 'harassing' the Philippines," Mao Ning, China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, said...
