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(Eagle News) — Leave the talking to the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of National Defense. Senator Richard Gordon had this to say to government officials, after a Chinese vessel and a Filipino fishing boat figured in an allision near Recto Bank on June 13, and the 22 Filipino crew members, mostly fishermen, abandoned at sea. According to Gordon, too many officials speaking, especially if they are not in sync with one another, […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima on Wednesday, June 19, slammed President Rodrigo Duterte over his stance in the Recto Bank incident that saw a Chinese vessel hitting a Filipino fishing boat and abandoning it. “Yan ang problema. Pagdating sa China, consistent siya, naduduwag siya,” De Lima said in a brief ambush interview at Branch 34 of the Metropolitan Trial Court, where she attended a hearing on her disobedience to summons case. Asked if […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte is set to fly to Thailand this week to attend the 34th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit where he would join other ASEAN leaders in discussing important regional issues. Duterte is expected to push the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea during the ASEAN Summit in Thailand with the Philippines being the ASEAN-China dialogue coordinator, an official from the Department of Foreign Affairs said. […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Wednesday, June 19, slammed Senator Panfilo Lacson’s comment the Mutual Defense Treaty could be invoked in the Recto Bank incident that saw a Chinese vessel hitting a Filipino fishing vessel and abandoning it. In a radio interview, Panelo said in the first place, there was “no act of aggression” so far. “Hindi pa natin alam kung ano bang nangyari doon, is it intentional? Assuming na intentional, ang […]
(Eagle News) – The crew of a Vietnamese fishing vessel that rescued 11 Filipino fishermen adrift at sea said that the Filipinos they rescued were “clinging to plastic barrels and pieces of wood from the shipwreck” when they found them at Recto Bank. The account, as reported by VN Express, a Vietnamese online newspaper, of the Vietnamese crew who rescued the Filipino fishermen matched the account of the Filipino victims left drifting at sea […]
This is only an accidental collision, it adds (Eagle News)–China has expressed sympathy for the 22 Filipinos whose boat was rammed and sunk by a Chinese vessel near Recto Bank, but added the incident was merely an accident. “We express our sympathy to the Filipino fishermen who were in distress…I’d like to stress that this is only an accidental collision between fishing boats at sea,” China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lu Kang said. According to Lu, […]
(Eagle News)–Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol on Tuesday, June 18, denied claims President Rodrigo Duterte was downplaying the Recto Bank incident. In an interview over ANC, Piñol said the President was actually just “listening to all angles of the story before making a statement..” “..And that is the mark of a true leader,” he said. In a speech on Tuesday, June 17, Duterte ordered the Philippine Navy to “stay out” of the incident, as it was […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Monday, June 17, said the Chinese are not allowed to fish in Recto Bank in the West Philippine Sea. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo issued the statement days after a Chinese vessel hit a Filipino fishing boat causing it to sink in the area. The vessel also abandoned the 22 Filipinos on board the fishing boat. But Panelo added it was still unclear if the crew of the Chinese vessel fished in […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte called for a special Cabinet meeting on Monday, June 17, to discuss the Recto Bank incident but later canceled it, the Palace said. The meeting would have taken place days after the June 9 incident was announced by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana. The Palace has condemned the incident, which saw a Chinese vessel hitting a Filipino fishing boat that ended up sinking. Lorenzana said the Chinese vessel left the 22 Filipino […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Richard Gordon said the crew of the Chinese vessel who left 22 Filipino fishermen after the vessel rammed into their Filipino fishing boat which sank committed “acts of inhumanity.” Gordon said in a statement they also violated the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea or SOLAS and Article 98 of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea or UNCLOS that “mandate vessels, especially after a collision, to […]
(Eagle News)–The sinking of a Filipino boat after it collided with a Chinese vessel near Recto Bank in the West Philippine Sea, and the abandonment of the Chinese crew of the Filipino fishermen calls for a “leader-to-leader talk.” According to Senator Panfilo Lacson, we, after all, “don’t treat our friends like that and we don’t expect to be treated that way either.” “Nothing short of a hard and serious punitive action by the Chinese leadership […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine Department of National Defense (DND) “denounced the actions of a Chinese fishing vessel” which hit a Philippine vessel that had 22 Filipino crewmen, abandoning them after the incident. The event was reported to the DND on June 9, said Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, and the Filipino vessel that was hit was “anchored at the time” of the collision. Lorenzana “condemned in the strongest terms” what he termed as “the […]
