A Chinese vessel rams Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) vessel BRP Datu Sanday during a resupply mission in the West Philippine Sea on Aug. 25, 2024. (Photo: NTF-WPS) There appears no sign of easing of tension in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) as Chinese navy and coast guard ships...
A view of the flares launched by China from Zamora (Subi) Reef against a Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Cessna 208B Grand Caravan aircraft during a maritime domain awareness flight within the territorial sea of Pag-asa (Thitu) Island on Aug. 22, 2024. (Photo: PCG) What Department...
FA-50 light fighter jets of the Philippine Air Force fly with a B-52H bomber aircraft of the United States Pacific Air Force for its first ever combined air patrol over the West Philippine Sea on February 19, 2024. (Photo by PAF) As China takes its aggression in the contested features in the West...
National Security Adviser Eduardo M. Año (File photo) The National Security Council (NSC) hailed on Monday, Aug. 12, the recent decision by the Court of Appeals (CA) dismissing the petition for writ of amparo and writ of habeas data filed by environmental activists Jhed Tamano and Jonila...
Cessna T-41 and SIAI-Marchetti SF 260 aircraft from the Philippine Air Force (PAF) form the number "77" during a formation flight in celebration of the PAF’s 77th anniversary on July 1, 2024 at the Basa Air Base in Floridablanca, Pampanga. (Photo: PAF) The aerial and maritime patrols being...
Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel (Facebook) Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel is pushing for the realignment of funds from government programs that are considered “Duterte legacies” to education and social service programs. During the...
(Front to back) BRP Gregorio del Pilar, BRP Jose Rizal, and USS Gabriel Gaffords (LCS-10) conduct tactical maneuvers in WPS on Nov. 23, 2023 as part of the PH-US maritime cooperative activity (MCA). (Photo by Armed Forces of the Philippines) The National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (Facebook) ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro is calling for the abolition of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and the reallocation of its budget to agencies that...
(File photo) The national government promised to defeat the New People’s Army (NPA), the armed component of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), within the term of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. (PBBM) even with the resignation of Vice President Sara Duterte as one of its...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (left), Vice President SaraDuterte (PPAB, Facebook) House Deputy Minority Leader ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro couldn't help but take a jab at Vice President Sara Duterte on the...
(File photo) A member of the Philippine Navy was severely injured when China Coast Guard (CCG) intentionally rammed the supply boats of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) that were engaged in a resupply mission at Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal on Monday, June 17. Col. Xerxes Trinidad, chief...
Defense Secretary Gilberto C. Teodoro Jr. graces the 126th Philippine Navy anniversary at the Navy's headquarters in Manila on May 24, 2024. (Photo by Noel Pabalate / MANILA BULLETIN) Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. directed the Armed Forces of the Philippines...
