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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Dec. 10, threatened to take over water services in Metro Manila if he was not satisfied with the explanation on the water concession agreements with “onerous” provisions. In a speech in Malacanang, Duterte said he wants all lawyers behind the contracts to appear before him. “Isa-isahin ko sila, ang mga abogado ng, p***ng i*a, gumawa ng kontrata. Sino ‘yung mga opisyal ng (Metropolitan Waterworks Sewerage System). Tanungin […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration has adopted the recommendation to revoke the memorandum of agreement that extended the water concession period “prematurely” up to 2037. This was according to Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, who gave an interview over radio dzmm on Thursday, Dec. 5. According to Guevarra, the recommendation was adopted during a Cabinet meeting on Nov. 6. Guevarra had said the extension of the concession period in the case of Manila Water […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte already invoked the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s ruling on the Spratly Islands even before a Palace statement that invoked the same over the weekend, Malacañang said on Monday, April 15. According to Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, Duterte “effectively” did this when he told China to “lay off Pag-Asa Island.” “Effectively his previous statement earlier—when he said ‘do not touch our property and if you do any harm to our soldiers, we […]
(Eagle News)—Respect the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s 2016 ruling on the Spratlys. The Palace had this to say to China, whose vessels have been spotted, based on reports, near several islands being claimed by the Philippines in the area. “We reiterate our unchanged stance — the arbitral ruling is irreversible, the same being based on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and international law accepted by most, if not by all, […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima has filed a bill declaring July 12 of every year as a “West Philippine Sea (WPS) Victory Day” in observance of the country’s victory in the Permanent Court of Arbitration against China. In filing Senate Bill No. 2201, De Lima, who, as then-justice secretary, was part of the delegation that argued for the Philippines’ case in the tribunal in 2013, said it was but “fitting and compelling that the 12th of […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday, Dec. 4, appeared to shoot down the idea of physically going to areas being claimed by China in the West Philippine Sea to check if there are indeed weather stations there. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in the first place “you may have some problems there; may even provoke something that we don’t want.” “They claim that it’s theirs, but the arbitral ruling says it’s ours. Meanwhile, nobody seems […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Koko Pimentel on Friday, Nov. 23, hailed the government’s decision to call off the deployment of the Philippine Navy to Panatag Shoal in 2016, after the international tribunal ruling that invalidated China’s excessive claims in the West Philippine Sea. “For me it was a good call,” Pimentel said, after Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana revealed the aborted plan prompted by President Rodrigo Duterte’s insistence the country employ a soft approach instead. According to […]
(Eagle News) — Vice President Leni Robredo on Wednesday, Nov. 21, urged the Duterte administration to be “transparent” in the bilateral deals signed with China on the first day of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s two-day state visit. “The Filipino people should be informed how deals — such as the Memorandum of Understanding on the Belt and Road Initiative, the Infrastructure Cooperation Program, and, most notably, the Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation on Oil and Gas […]
(Eagle News)—-The Palace on Tuesday, Nov. 20, said the arbitral ruling that invalidated China’s claims in the South China Sea was “useless” so far. “There is no power on Earth that can enforce it. The United Nations cannot. The United States cannot,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. According to Panelo, instead, “as I said we can get what we are supposed to have by negotiation.” He added if there was pressure from the international community on […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said it was important for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to work on the “peaceful resolution” of the South China Sea disputes, even as he chided his critics pressing him to enforce a UN-backed tribunal ruling on the disputed seas to have a “reality check.” During the reading of the joint press statement Thursday (April 27) with Brunei’s Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah in Malacanan Palace, President Duterte said […]
(REUTERS) The Philippines’ defense ministry released pictures on Wednesday showing what it said were Chinese boats near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, just hours before Southeast Asian nations were due to meet China’s premier at a summit in Laos. There was no explanation for the timing of the release, but it came two days after Manila expressed “grave concern” about the increasing number of Chinese vessels around the Scarborough Shoal and […]
(REUTERS) The Philippines expressed “grave concern” on Sunday and demanded an explanation from China’s ambassador over what it said was an increasing number of Chinese boats near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. A Philippines air force plane flew over the rocky outcrop on Saturday and spotted more boats than usual in a flotilla China has maintained since seizing the shoal after a tense standoff in 2012, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana […]
