West Philippine Sea (Wikipedia) House Minority Leader 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino "Nonoy" Libanan is worried that international news reports of worsening tensions in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) might shoo away potential foreign investors...
A Philippine Coast Guard personnel teaches students in Pag-asa Island. (Photo courtesy of PCG) The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) deployed a team of doctors, nurses, and teachers to Pag-asa (Thitu) Island in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) to improve community welfare and education in the remote area....
President Marcos has issued Executive Order (EO) No. 57, which aims to strengthen the country's maritime security amid China's recent aggressive tactics and threats in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). File photos Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin signed the six-page EO on March 25, the same week...
Local manning agencies are now required to implement the right to refuse sailing of the Filipino seafarers they would deploy after the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) has issued an order that provided guidelines in support of the declaration of Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden as “high-risk...
Apparently inspired by the recent remarks of President Marcos Jr., the Department of National Defense (DND) said Filipinos are not known globally as aggressors but will not hesitate to take actions if the country’s sovereignty is at stake. In a statement on Good Friday, March 29, Defense...
"Filipinos do not yield." In the coming weeks, the Philippines will implement a reasonable "response and countermeasure package" over the dangerous attacks made by the China Coast Guard and Chinese maritime militia in the West Philippine Sea. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel...
(L-R) US Department of Defense Sec. Lloyd J. Austin III and Department of National Defense Sec. Gilberto Teodoro Jr. (Courtesy of Austin / X account) Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto "Gibo" Teodoro Jr. spoke over the phone with United States Department of Defense (DoD)...
BRP Sierra Madre (File photo) The national government is not aware of and would not support any agreement between the Philippines and China to remove BRP Sierra Madre from Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) since it would be detrimental to the country's national...
Filipino and foreign journalists hit China’s Foreign Ministry for “barefaced” lying when it accused mediamen of manipulating videos of Chinese harassment of Filipinos in the West Philippine Sea. In separate statements, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) and the...
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff, General Romeo Brawner Jr. talks to the team members of the rotation and reprovision (RoRe) mission to Ayungin Shoal during his visit to Western Command headquarters in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan on March 26, 2024. (Photo by AFP) The Armed...
Former presidential spokesman Harry Roque (MANILA BULLETIN) Former presidential spokesman Harry Roque must face a House investigation and bare all the agreements that former president Rodrigo Duterte made with China in connection with...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday, March 27, assured the families of the 17 Filipino seafarers held captive by the Yemeni rebel group Houthi in the Red Sea that the government is doing all it can to bring them home. A grab from handout footage released by Yemen's...