The newly created Senate Committee on Maritime and Admiralty Zones is set to kickstart its marathon hearings to craft a new Philippine map in response to China's contested 10-dash-line map.
www.philstar.com - Sep 14, 2023
The 13-million hectare continental shelf, called Benham Rise by mariners, was renamed Philippine Rise. Recently, China published its own map showing 10 dashes that form a U-shape in the South ...
AFP / Greg Baker. MANILA, Philippines — The newly created Senate Committee on Maritime and Admiralty Zones is set to kick off its marathon hearings to craft a new Philippine map in response to China's contested 10-dash-line map. Sen. Francis Tolentino said that the maritime panel will draw up a revised Philippine map that incorporates ...
qa.philstar.com - Sep 14, 2023
September 14, 2023. 720. THE Philippine government, in response to China's 10-dash line map of the South China Sea, will release a new map reflecting the legality of the country's maritime domain and territorial sovereignty in the disputed territory in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos).
www.manilatimes.net - Sep 14, 2023
The Philippine coast guard has opened a new monitoring base on a remote island occupied by Filipino forces in the disputed South China Sea as Manila ramps up efforts to counter China's increasingly aggressive actions in the ... The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP ...
apnews.com - Dec 01, 2023
The Armed Forces and some experts support the plan to release a new standard map of the Philippines. Tristan Nodalo reports. Visit our website for more #NewsYouCanTrust: https://www.cnnphilippines ...
www.msn.com - Sep 15, 2023
MANILA (UPDATE)— The Philippines on Thursday filed a diplomatic protest against a new map that showed China's extended territorial claims, including parts of the West Philippine Sea. The map featured a 10-dashed line, which was previously a nine-dashed line, that supposedly shows China's boundaries in the waterway, the Department of Foreign ...
news.abs-cbn.com - Aug 31, 2023
MANILA, Philippines — Senator Francis Tolentino on Thursday said once the proposed measure on maritime zones has been approved, it could be the basis for an updated Philippine map that would ...
A SPECIAL Senate committee will craft a Philippine map that would assert the country's claim over territories in the South China Sea as a response to China's recent so-called 10-dash line map, a senator said on Wednesday. In a statement, Senator Francis N. Tolentino said the Senate Special Committee on Maritime and Admiralty Zones will hold ...
www.bworldonline.com - Sep 13, 2023
China has blamed the Philippines for the frequent clashes in the South China Sea. Chinese-built structures on Mischief Reef, off the Philippine island of Palawan. Jes Aznar for The New York Times ...
www.nytimes.com - Mar 16, 2024
MANILA, Philippines — Senator Francis Tolentino said the Senate's special panel on maritime and admiralty zones is aiming to craft a Philippine map that will counter China's 10-dash line claims.
The Philippines on Thursday rejected China's publication of a new map that places nearly the entire South China Sea within its national boundaries, infringing on Manila's claims in the resource-rich waters. In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs said the 2023 edition map is China's latest attempt "to legitimize purported...
www.gmanetwork.com - Aug 31, 2023
The 2023 edition of China's standard map was officially released on Monday and launched on the website of the standard map service hosted by the Ministry of Natural Resources. This map is compiled ...
www.philstar.com - Aug 31, 2023
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By Jim Gomez. Published 11:59 PM PDT, May 28, 2021. MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines has demanded that China withdraw its ships and fishing vessels from the vicinity of a Philippine-occupied island in the South China Sea, where the Chinese military has asserted its sovereignty and vowed to "unswervingly safeguard" the disputed ...
apnews.com - Apr 28, 2024
The new PH map featuring 'West PH Sea' and the EEZ comes after China's published its own charts claiming 130 islands in the South China Sea
www.rappler.com - Apr 28, 2024
Dec. 21, 2023, at 2:56 a.m. Rift Deepens Between the Philippines, China Over South China Sea. More. Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Philippine Coast Guard ship tows a Filipino resupply vessel following ...
www.usnews.com - Dec 21, 2023
Governments of the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Taiwan on Thursday joined India in rejecting China's new national map, issuing strongly worded statements accusing Beijing of claiming their ...
www.ndtv.com - Aug 31, 2023
A "new Philippines is here" - buffeted by challenges, but "sound and improving," President Marcos said yesterday in his second State of the Nation Address, where he made familiar calls ...
www.philstar.com - Jul 25, 2023
MANILA - The Philippines should conduct oil exploration in its maritime waters and create its own map staking its claim in the West Philippine Sea following increased Chinese incursions, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said Monday. Government can partner with other countries and private firms, Sotto said. The country and its partner should ...
news.abs-cbn.com - Apr 28, 2024
(1st UPDATE) China's U-shaped line loops as far as 1,500 km south of its Hainan island and cuts into the exclusive economic zones of Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia
www.rappler.com - Aug 31, 2023
Shake intensity. A major, 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the Philippine Sea on Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 10:37 p.m. Philippine time ...
www.nytimes.com - Dec 02, 2023
The Pentagon announced in February last year a new military base-sharing agreement with Manila, giving U.S. forces access to four sites in the Philippines for use in humanitarian missions, adding ...
www.nytimes.com - Apr 26, 2024
11 June 2023. By Joel Guinto,BBC News. EPA. Lava flows from the crater of Mayon volcano. Around 13,000 people have been evacuated in north-east Philippines as the country's most famous volcano ...
www.bbc.com - Jun 11, 2023
Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991 measured 6 on the index. Mount St. Helens in the United States in 1980 measured 5. "So it is a little bit smaller than that," she said of Mount Ruang.
www.nytimes.com - Apr 17, 2024
The Philippine peso's current slump is unlikely to prompt the central bank to raise its key interest rate from a 17-year high at this time, according to Finance Secretary Ralph Recto.. The ...
www.bloomberg.com - Apr 25, 2024
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