China angered by young campers on disputed isle
BEIJING expressed anger Monday after a group of young Filipinos camped out on Pagasa, an island in the South China ...
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Campers retake Kalayaan Island
ALMOST 50 young Filipinos are camping on a remote Philippine-held island in the South China Sea in a symbolic stand ...
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Romualdez lauds team’s handling of PH case vs China
An opposition senatorial candidate Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez of Leyte is upbeat about the outcome of the Philippines’ case against ...
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PH wraps up case vs China
The Philippines appealed to the Arbitral Tribunal to uphold all the Philippines’s claims, especially in the maritime entitlements of the ...
Read moreChina may rebut case until Jan. 1
THE Philippines has sought to debunk China’s claims to disputed islands in the South China Sea, court officials said Monday ...
Read more48-man team to argue PH case vs China
The Philippines will present the country’s case for the first round of oral arguments filed against China over the territorial ...
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PNoy: World watching China’s behavior
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III told an Asia-Pacific summit on Sunday that “the world is watching” whether China would behave as ...
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US motivation: Keep passage of oil secure
WASHINGTON seeks to play a major role in the South China Sea dispute not because it wants to support the ...
Read moreRare meet for PH, China leaders
President Benigno Aquino III and Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose countries are embroiled in a territorial dispute in the ...
Read more‘Reclamations’ alarm Pentagon
SIMI VALLEY—The United States is “deeply concerned” that land reclamation efforts in the South China Sea could trigger conflict in ...
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