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(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday said it believes China’s naming of undersea features at Philippine Rise was not done “in bad faith.” “We’re not attributing any bad faith to China, but we’re just saying respect us too that we will give Philippine names to them,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a press briefing. According to Roque, because of the incident, the Philippines would now nominate its own expert in the International Hydrographic Organization’s […]
(Eagle News) — Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Wednesday said he would also assign Philippine names to the features at the Philippine Rise that were named by China. “We will still discuss this with the National Security Adviser and other Cabinet members,” he said. Lorenzana issued the brief statement after the Palace condemned China’s move to name the five undersea features. In a Facebook post, Jay Batongbacal, an associate professor at the University of the Philippines […]
“Iba naman yung exercising sovereign rights,” he says (Eagle News) — Unlike some of his colleagues, Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III sees nothing wrong with China’s naming of five undersea features at Philippine Rise. “Without reading the convention or the treaty, or the rules governing the name, common sense tells me that no one has a monopoly of the power or the right to name features on earth. Wala naman pong ganun,” he said on […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine government has protested China’s naming of five undersea features at the Philippine Rise. This is according to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, who issued a statement on the matter on Wednesday. “We object and do not recognize the Chinese names given to some undersea features in the Philippine Rise. Per our Philippine embassy in Beijing, they have already raised our concern to China,” Roque said. According to Roque, the embassy was […]
By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Wednesday urged the Philippines to file a diplomatic protest against China over its reported naming of five undersea features at Philippine Rise. “So palagay ko this time, it warrants at the very least, a diplomatic protest dahil hndi pwedeng hahayaan na lang yan. At least ngayon maliwanag na, dapat off limits na sa kanila itong Benham Rise,” Trillanes said in an interview with reporters. […]
(Eagle News) — China has “successfully named” five undersea features at the Philippine Rise region. This is according to Jay Batongbacal, an associate professor at the University of the Philippines College of Law and director of the University of the Philippines Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea. According to Batongbacal, the features were the “Jinghao and Tianbao Seamounts located some 70 nautical miles east of Cagayan; the Haidonquing Seamount further east at 190 nautical […]
(Eagle News) — The government has also approved the bids of the United States, South Korea and Japan to conduct research in the Philippine Rise. ” This hopefully puts to rest the issue that the current administration is favoring China (on) the issue of Benham Rise,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a statement on Thursday. According to Roque, the latest development came from the Department of Foreign Affairs. Roque also noted that if Filipinos […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Tuesday defended the Department of Foreign Affairs decision to allow China to jointly conduct a research with the Philippines in the Philippine Rise. According to Roque, in the first place, no Filipino has applied to do such a research in the continental shelf previously known as Benham Rise. “And no one can do it because, apparently, it’s capital-intensive,” he said. He said that while other countries had […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – The Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will start building facilities in the Philippine Rise, previously known as Benham Rise, next year. Senate Committee on Environment and Committee on Agriculture Chairperson Cynthia Villar said that the planned construction of facilities in the Philippine Rise can be included in the 2018 budget. Based on studies conducted by DA and DENR, the experts concluded […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte has signed Executive Order No. 325 renaming Benham Rise to Philippine Rise, stressing the country’s rights over the 13-million hectare undersea area off Aurora province. Duterte signedEO No. 25 last May 16 after Chinese vessels were spotted in the region, particularly on the other side of the disputed West Philippine Sea. Duterte said in the EO that from now on, Benham Rise would be referred to as Philippine Rise in […]
(Eagle News)– Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol disclosed on Thursday (May 11) that President Rodrigo Duterte has declared Benham Rise, renamed and now known as Philippine Rise, a Protected Food Supply Exclusive Zone. Because of the declaration, mining and oil explorations are no longer allowed in the 13-million hectare undersea region located east of Luzon. Piñol said Duterte tasked him and the Department of Agriculture (DA) to conduct a feasibility study on establishing a structure in Benham Rise […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to sign an Executive Order renaming Benham Rise to Philippine Ridge to strengthen country’s rights over the area. “That is ours,” the President said, claiming the Benham Rise as a part of the Philippine territory. Duterte said this during his departure speech on Monday at the Davao International Airport. He made the speech before he flew for the Middle East for a series of state visits meant to boost […]
