Expanding EDCA’s reach
With four more sites due to be added to the five already established under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) ...
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US, PH blast China ‘grey zone’ ops in SCS ‘impeding’ fishermen’s rights
THE defense secretaries of the United States and the Philippines jointly denounced China’s “gray-zone” operations—activities that just fall short of ...
Read morePH, China envoys in SCS dialog
Diplomats from the Philippines and China are scheduled to hold a series of consultation meetings in Manila this week to ...
Read moreUS advance party to Balikatan war games arrive in PH today
An advanced party from the US Armed Forces that will be joining the 2023 "Balikatan" exercises next month is scheduled ...
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US-PH ‘Salaknib’ exercises begin
Some 3,000 Filipino and American soldiers are participating in the three-week long Army-to-Army annual Salaknib Exercise that opened yesterday. Philippine ...
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PH, China to link up on WPS to avert ‘miscalculations’
THE Philippines and China are expected to sign an agreement to prevent “miscalculations and miscommunication” in the country’s exclusive economic ...
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Ph files news protest vs. China, this time over moves in Ayungin Shoal
The Philippines has filed another diplomatic protest against China—the second this week, over its activities in the West Philippine Sea, ...
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EU commits 150 million euros in grants to PH
The European Union committed an additional 150 million euros worth of grants to the Philippines to help finance agricultural productivity ...
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Dominguez orders SSS, GSIS to boost PH stocks
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III ordered state-run pension funds Government Service Insurance System and Social Security System to support the ...
Read more‘UN special envoys put PH in bad light’
MALACAÑANG on Friday accused two Filipina UN special rapporteurs of being partisan and trying to put the Duterte administration in ...
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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.