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Benham Rise

Does the average Filipino know that Benham Rise, also called Benham Plateau, is part of Philippine territory? With an area of 13 million hectares,...

Magdalo cites Benham to bolster impeach bid

THE Magdalo party-list group on Thursday filed a supplemental impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte for his alleged failure to assert the country’s exclusive...

PH rejects China’s request

CHINA’S request to conduct marine research in Benham Rise has been rejected due to its refusal to allow a Filipino scientist to observe such...

Benham Rise

Like the frontier northwest Palawan area that produced the country’s first commercial oil and natural gas fields, Benham Rise must be mapped, explored and...

Complacency

Reports of China’s military build-up on islands in the South China Sea partly claimed by the Philippines do not seem to worry the country’s...

Malacañang calls Alejano’s supplemental impeachment case ‘nonsense’

‘Nonsense’ is how Presidential Legal Adviser Salvador Panelo describes Magdalo Partylist Representative Gary Alejano’s filing of a supplemental impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte. In...

Satellites over Benham eyed

A TOP security official on Wednesday recommended the procurement and use of satellites to better monitor marine activity in Benham Rise, an undersea region...

DFA: PH nixes China’s pleas to study Benham Rise

The Deparment of Foreign Affairs (DFA) tells the Senate that for the last two years, the Philippines has been rejecting China’s application to conduct...

Senate holds hearing on Benham Rise

The Senate Committee on Economic Affairs is conducting a hearing on Wednesday on the proposal to create Benham Rise Development Authority (BRDA). Senate Committee on...

Betrayal of public trust

Detained Senator Leila de Lima lashed back at President Rodrigo Duterte as the one who’s guilty of betrayal of public trust for selling the...

‘Flip-flop on China may lead to crisis’

CONFUSING remarks by President Rodrigo Duterte about Philippine claims in the Scarborough Shoal and Benham Rise could bring about a crisis in the country’s...

Duterte renews China invite

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte said Beijing seemed to want to make the Philippines its province as he once again slammed Washington, the Philippines’ traditional ally,...

Senators want foreign policy issues clarified

SENATORS have expressed a desire to look into the country’s foreign policy direction following President Rodrigo Duterte’s latest pronouncements over Benham Rise and Panatag...

Ex-mutineer vows to use jetski, lead army vs Chinese

THE lawmaker, who accused President Rodrigo Duterte of high crimes in an impeachment complaint on Tuesday urged the Chief Executive to name him as...
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