Considering the US Coast Guard to join the Philippines in patrolling South China Sea
" If the issue of sovereignty is not resolved through peaceful means, there is the likely possibility of it resulting ...
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Issues behind the South China Sea (Part I)
"The ratification of UNCLOS exposed the many inequities in the Treaty of Paris particularly the boundaries agreed by the US ...
Read moreUnderstanding our alleged claim
"The Treaty of Paris has been signed and long been consummated. We can no longer refuse the authenticity of that ...
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Confusion and misunderstanding in the South China Sea: Part I
"Ignorance heightened by foreign instigation." Our problem in the South China Sea is borne out of our ignorance heightened ...
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US derailing ASEAN Code of Conduct
"Americans are taking advantage of the situation." Objectively, the ASEAN Code of Conduct was first broached to the ...
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Demarcating our national boundary
Part II The archipelagic doctrine is an arbitrary redefinition of the country’s national boundary. The Philippines, and lately Indonesia, have ...
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Demarcating our national boundary
Part 1 The first document that officially demarcated our national boundary indicating the bounds of what constitutes the Philippine archipelago ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.