‘Phl lost Panatag Shoal to Chinese not once but twice’
By
Jaime Laude
| August 7, 2015 - 10:00am
Long before the Chinese grabbed Panatag Shoal (Scarborough) in 2012, the Philippines had already relaxed its hold on the territory with its removal in the 1990s of a grounded warship – reportedly at Beijing’s...
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Philippines protests Chinese ramming of 3 Filipino boats
February 4, 2015 - 9:24pm
The Philippine government says it has protested to Beijing after a Chinese coast guard ship allegedly rammed and damaged three...
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Manila enforced law, rescued ships in shoal
By
GOTCHA
| By
Jarius Bondoc
| December 19, 2014 - 12:00am
What better proof of sovereignty than Manila’s destruction of an illegal smuggler base in Scarborough?
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Phl held Scarborough nonstop for 300 years
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GOTCHA
| By
Jarius Bondoc
| December 17, 2014 - 12:00am
Beijing’s communists began to claim the reef only in 1947. Three centuries prior Manila already exercised jurisdiction.
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Faulty translations misled Beijing’s sea claims (1)
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GOTCHA
| By
Jarius Bondoc
| November 19, 2014 - 12:00am
A Beijing body merely named as Chinese islands the reefs and shoals in old British maps — including 20 mistaken seamarks.
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Scarborough is Phl, antique maps show (2)
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GOTCHA
| By
Jarius Bondoc
| October 29, 2014 - 12:00am
Not only 34 old charts of Asia and the Philippines but also international declarations and practices prove so.
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Scarborough is Phl, antique maps show (1)
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GOTCHA
| By
Jarius Bondoc
| October 27, 2014 - 12:00am
34 historical charts of Asia and the Philippines invariably include the shoal as part of the archipelago.
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Chinese patrols expanded in shoal
By
Jaime Laude
| August 12, 2014 - 12:00am
Despite the arrest of 11 Chinese fishermen for engaging in illegal turtle trade at Half Moon Shoal last May, Beijing is not...
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‘Phl chose right course in sea row’
By
Pia Lee-Brago
| April 6, 2014 - 12:00am
The Philippines chose the right course, an international think tank said of the country’s filing a case before an arbitral...
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Unwind
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FIRST PERSON
| By
Alex Magno
| April 1, 2014 - 12:00am
We might choose to crow about it – and then prepare for more such skirmishes in the future.
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