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THE WORLD’S naval powers are doing the “heavy lifting” in enforcing the arbitral tribunal award on the South China Sea dispute two years s...

The recent Social Weather Stations poll showing that four of five Filipinos rebuffed the government’s approach to the territorial dispute ...

Southeast Asian countries and China have agreed that the framework for the Code of Conduct(COC) of Parties in the South China Sea was “not...

Just over a year ago, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled that China’s vaunted “nine-dash line” and subsequent hist...

By:  Florin T. Hilbay  -  @inquirerdotnet In the recently concluded Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, the special envoy for intercultural ...

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey prepares for a replenishment-at-sea in the South China Sea May 19, 2017. Pictu...

AS EASY AS ABC By Atty. Alex B. Cabrera   (The Philippine Star) If occupying and building artificial islands within Philippine territory ...

I am pleased   to send  herewith a  copy  of  the  “Primer”  I prepared   on  “The  Ocean  Space   or  The  Maritime   Area  of  the Phili...

One is not sure why lawyer (for Marcos and cronies), former solicitor general and former Pampanga governor Estelito Mendoza has jumped into...

For all the outrage after China seized a US naval drone last week, it’s far from clear whether it will herald a new era of confrontation on...

President Rodrigo Duterte has given his nod to the continuation of the Balikatan joint military exercises between Philippine and US forces,...

SKETCHES By Ana Marie Pamintuan   (The Philippine Star) The day after President Duterte announced his “separation” militarily and econom...

GOTCHA By Jarius Bondoc   (The Philippine Star)  President Rodrigo Duterte misstated in Beijing that China never has invaded any part of ...