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(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 […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China has started building the world’s largest test site for unmanned ships — a technology with both civilian and military applications — off a port in the disputed South China Sea, state media said Tuesday. The test area is being constructed off the southern port city of Zhuhai bordering Macau, the state Xinhua news agency said. China asserts sovereignty over almost all the South China Sea despite competing partial claims from […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The fourth dialogue between Philippine and Japan officials for the “Build, Build, Build” program has started. The dialogue was led by Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez and Dr. Hiroto Izumi, Special Adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The Philippine government first signed a 15.93 billion yen (approx. $142 million) loan agreement with Japan International Cooperation Agency for a project that aims to mitigate flooding in several areas in Cavite. The […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he would want to have a one-on-one talk with the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) who has opened a preliminary examination on the complaint for alleged crimes against humanity that had been filed against him and 11 other officials. This is so he could enlighten ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda about the real situation in the country, as well as its laws where the ICC Statute […]
(Eagle News) –One of these days, the Philippines will have China to “thank” for the artificial islands created by the Asian giant in the South China Sea. According to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, who gave an interview that was posted on his Facebook page, this was because “it is only the Philippines that can legally build on those artificial islands.” “Clearly, eventually, those artificial islands will be ours if we can ask China to leave […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP The Philippines has bought 16 new Bell helicopters from Canada for about US$235 million to strengthen its fight against Islamic militants and other domestic insurgencies, defence officials said Wednesday. The two governments announced the deal less than three months after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau clashed with host President Rodrigo Duterte over Philippine drug war killings, on the sidelines of a Manila summit. The Philippine defence department signed the 12- billion-peso (US$234.8 million) Bell […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Widespread fears over a controversial dengue vaccine that some blame for child deaths are wreaking havoc on the Philippines’ war on preventable diseases, with many parents refusing to get their children immunized, a senior health official said Friday. Immunization rates for polio, chicken pox, tetanus and other diseases are significantly down from previous years since the government suspended the sale and distribution of the Dengvaxia vaccine in December, Health Undersecretary […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Umabot sa mahigit 6 na milyong dayuhang turista ang dumagsa sa Pilipinas noong nakaraang taon. Batay sa nakalap na datos ng Department of Tourism (DOT), umabot sa 6.6 milyon na foreign tourists ang bumisita sa Pilipinas. Noong January 2017, naitala ang pinakamaraming dayuhan na bumisita sa bansa—mahigit 620,000—habang pumangalawa ang buwan ng Disyembre na umabot naman sa mahigit 600,000 turista. Mas mataas ito ng 11 porsyento kumpara sa dami ng […]
by Ayee Macaraig Agence France Presse LIGAO, Philippines (AFP) — Filipinos sheltering from the erupting Mayon volcano gasped in delight as an orange full-moon eclipse shone above the mountain’s smouldering crater Wednesday in what was both a once-in-a-lifetime double spectacle and a rare moment of relief. Mount Mayon — the country’s most active volcano — has been spewing spectacular but potentially lethal ash and lava for the last fortnight, forcing some 90,000 people into cramped […]
by Ayee Macaraig Agence France Presse GUINOBATAN, Philippines (AFP) — As blistering lava spews from the seething volcano nearby, Philippine farmer Jay Balindang leads his buffalo through the ash-strewn paddy fields of the no-go zone, creeping closer to danger in a desperate bid to support his family. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from around the erupting Mayon volcano, as a white-hot cocktail of gas and volcanic debris streaks down its flanks, […]
by Ayee Macaraig Agence France Presse LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines (AFP) — Millions of tons of ash and rock from Mayon volcano could bury nearby communities due to heavy rain, authorities said Saturday, as tens of thousands flee over fears of a deadly explosion. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) issued the warning as heavy rains lashed the area surrounding the Mayon volcano, which has been emitting flaming lava and giant clouds of […]
China has been invited to participate in a major US-led naval exercise, Chinese officials said Thursday, in the disputed South China Sea. The Chinese military took part in the RIMPAC drill, billed as the world’s largest international naval exercise, for the first time in 2014 and again in 2016. “We have received the American invitation,” Chinese defense ministry spokesman Wu Qian told reporters. A Chinese delegation has been sent to the US to discuss logistics, […]
