Nobel laureate Maria Ressa has warned against information warfare as people are now being emotionally manipulated for profit and other motives. That is done through tech giants and social media companies that are being exploited because tech is "the least regulated industry globally," Ressa...
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,...
China’s embassy in Manila on Thursday, May 2, shrugged off several countries’ expression of concern over the Chinese aggression on the Philippine vessels by saying they do not represent the international community and are just only taking side. The embassy also blamed President Marcos’...
The Philippine government on Thursday, May 2, summoned one of China’s top diplomats in Manila to explain the latest harassment incident in the country’s waters. The latest diplomatic action came after the China Coast Guard (CCG) fired a water cannon at Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and Bureau of...
Ambassador Bartinah Ntombizodwa Radebe-Netshitenzhe during her welcome remarks at the South African Tourism Workshop South African Tourism (SAT), in collaboration with the South African Embassy in Manila, Philippines, announced their re-engagement and re-inspiration initiative for the Philippines...
An American diplomat on Monday, April 22, said the annual war games between the Philippines and the United States give the peoples of both countries the chance to strengthen their ties, which is the backbone of the “deep friendship” between the two nations. Photo courtesy of US Embassy in...
China’s embassy in Manila claimed Thursday, April 18, that a Philippine lawmaker’s attempt to investigate the increasing number of Chinese students in Cagayan, one of the provinces near Taiwan, incites hatred of China. As Cagayan 3rd District Rep. Joseph Lara filed a House resolution calling...
