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SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) — Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Wednesday (July 13) urged China and the Philippines to follow the South China Sea Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling. In a case that was seen as a test of China’s rising power and its economic and strategic rivalry with the United States, the court in The Hague ruled China had breached the Philippines’ sovereign rights by endangering its ships and […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia will sharply strengthen security around its South China Sea islands where there have been clashes with Chinese vessels, the defense minister said Wednesday, a day after Beijing’s claims in the sea were declared invalid. In an interview with AFP, Ryamizard Ryacudu said bolstering defenses around Indonesia’s Natuna Islands would involve deploying warships, an F-16 fighter jet, surface-to-air missiles, a radar and drones, as well as constructing new ports and improving […]
Eagle News — Vietnam will host the ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) in 2019, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT). The forum, to be hosted by the ministry of culture, sports and tourism in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City or Da Nang, will welcome around 1,500 participants. In 2009, Vietnam hosted the 28th ATF in the country’s capital from January 5 to 12, drawing a record high number of 2,064 delegates, comprised of […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — A Japanese Coast Guard vessel has arrived in Manila for a joint exercise, though the Philippine Coast Guard says it wasn’t timed to coincide with a tribunal’s ruling on manila’s case against china’s claims in the South China Sea. Commander armand balilo, the philippine coast guard’s spokesman, said the Japanese vessel PHL02 Tsugaru docked at Manila’s south harbor on Monday. Some 50 Japanese and 70 Filipino coast guard personnel will […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — “Excellent” ang naging rating ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa pag-sisimula ng kanyang termino. Batay sa June 2016 survey ng Social Weather Stations (SWS), 84 percent ng respondents ang sumagot na tiwala sila sa bagong administrasyon, 11 percent ang sumagot nang hindi tiyak at 5 percent ang walang masyadong tiwala. Una rito, naka-tanggap ang pangulo ng “moderate” rating noong December 2015 at bago ang eleksyon noong May 9. Ma-ihahambing din ang […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Hinimok ng Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) ang publiko na iparating ang anumang impormasyon ukol sa ilegal na droga sa pamamagitan ng kanilang 24/7 hotline. Ayon kay Dir. Gen. Isidro Lapeña, layon nitong ilahok ang publiko sa laban kontra ilegal na droga. Nasa higit labing-walong libong messages na ang natatanggap ng hotline mula nang ilunsad ito noong April 2013 at malaki ang na-itulong ng mga ito sa intelligence, casing at […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China warned its rivals Wednesday against turning the South China Sea into a “cradle of war” and threatened an air defense zone there, after its claims to the strategically vital waters were declared invalid. The surprisingly strong and sweeping ruling by a UN-backed tribunal in The Hague provided powerful diplomatic ammunition to the Philippines, which filed the challenge, and other claimants in their decades-long disputes with China over the resource-rich waters. […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Beijing “has the right” to declare an air defence identification zone over the South China Sea, it said Wednesday as it stepped up denunciations of international tribunal that ruled against its expansive claims in the strategic waters. Whether Beijing set up such a zone — which would require civilian aircraft to identify themselves to military controllers — depended on “the level of threat we receive”, said vice foreign minister Liu Zhenmin. “Do […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) — Japan urges China to follow The Hague tribunal’s ruling that denied China’s claims in the South China Sea in order to peacefully resolve disputes in the waterway, Japanese chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference on Wednesday (July 13). “Japan sees the ruling as final and legally binding all parties based on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. We believe both China and the Philippines […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — A Taiwanese warship set sail for the South China Sea on Wednesday “to defend Taiwan’s maritime territory”, a day after an international tribunal ruled China has no historic rights in the waterway and undermined Taipei’s claims to islands there. President Tsai Ing-wen rallied troops on the deck of the frigate, saying Taiwanese were determined to “defend their country’s rights”, before the warship headed for Taiwan-controlled Taiping island in the Spratly island […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Beijing’s ambassador to the United States made a blunt rebuke Tuesday of an international tribunal ruling that rendered its claims in the South China Sea invalid. China asserts sovereignty over almost all of the strategically vital waters, despite rival claims from its Southeast Asian neighbors, most notably the Philippines. The decision by the UN-backed tribunal in The Hague “will certainly undermine or weaken the motivation of states to engage in […]
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