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Reuters 01/13/16 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday welcomed the foreign and defense secretaries of the Philippines to the State Department after the Philippine Supreme Court declared a security deal with the United States constitutional. The Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement...

Steal? how can you say that the islands in question are China's when Filipinos were there long before your ancestors arrived. Remember, Chinese came to our islands to trade with people who were already there ahead of you. Your ancestors would not come to sell plates if there were no people...

China is now becoming power hungry and area grabbing nation. We need an equalizer to a greedy giant. Choice the lesser evil as the others say. Nevertheless, being a concerned Filipino citizen, I personally salute our Supreme Court justices who voted in favor of EDCA for its constitutionality...

Well I don't know that anyway sure they can send their military to go Mindanao if they can :lol: "Let’s remember the Justices who voted for EDCA, in support of national security. For what is sovereignty without security, especially in the face of a very aggressive, greedy neighbor that wants...

This is a very good reason not to vote for Binay. As long as there is money in it for him, he will give the entire West Philippine Sea to China. It's "doomsday" at its finest if that really happens this coming May election, we have reason to believe, that the Vice President and his family's...

Supreme Court rules that defense agreement reached in 2014 doesn’t require Senate approval U.S. and Philippine troops during a joint military exercise in October; the Philippines’ Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a defense agreement between the two nations doesn’t require Senate approval...

January 6th, 2016 China may turn more aggressive over the East and South China Seas due to its economic plunge, former Philippine National Security Adviser Roilo Golez warned. Chinese stocks fell nearly 7 percent last Monday, starting the year on a grim note. “It will be recalled that the...

The Emperor and Empress will be in the Philippines to personally display their remorse to the catastrophe brought by the war. I believe that is the highest display of remorse to clear their guilt and build trust between the people of Japan and the Philippines.

By Reuters 2015-12-03 15:59:27 When an international court ruled in late October that it had jurisdiction to hear a case filed by the Philippines against China over the disputed South China Sea, Beijing dismissed the decision, saying it would "lead to nothing". Philippine officials as well...

FULL TEXT: Miss Universe 2015 Q&A with top 5 contestants MANILA, Philippines — “I am confidently beautiful with a heart” answered Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach when asked by Miss Universe 2015 host Steve Harvey why she should be hailed the next Miss Universe. Wurtzbach emerged as the new Miss Universe...

Bitter much eh? The only things you should be proud of are the things you worked hard for. Race is [redacted] same as religion and ethnocentrism. Historically, admixture has been an ever present and pervading phenomenon in the Philippines.There is no one truly Filipino by blood (or genes), but...

My mistake! Disaster on Miss Universe 2015 as Steve Harvey announces the WRONG winner - and then Miss Colombia has to take off her crown and give it to Miss Philippines on live television Miss Colombia Ariadna Guttierez celebrated her victory for more than two minutes before the mistake was...

By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes BBC News, South China Sea December 16, 2015 What I came across on a reef far out in the middle of the South China Sea has left me shocked and confused. I'd been told that Chinese fishermen were deliberately destroying reefs near a group of Philippine-controlled...

December 11, 2015 MANILA, Philippines - China might lose its influence over smaller states if it will defy the decision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration on the arbitration case regarding the South China Sea dispute, according to the Philippines's lead counsel in the case. Manila lead...

The Philippines strategy of internationalization of the territorial dispute has proven to be very successful. China must not always say "according to history", everybody here in this world can create history. Bring us your evidence and nothing more...

Does this ring a bell, China? lol Seriously this is really unfortunate. Six years have passed and yet not a single perpetrator of that heinous crime was convicted. The search for justice by the families of victims of the Maguindanao massacre are losing hope fighting for justice. Aquino has...

Exactly. Well in a criminal court, when you are accused and you know you are guilty, you plead guilty so that the punishment is lighter. In the case of China in the arbitral body, It doesn't want the issue to be settled there because they do not have enough evidence to back their ownership...

As expected, being a well-armed robber state, PRC will insist and even fight for its fabricated 9-dash-line. :rolleyes:

By SARA SCHONHARDT and BEN OTTO Updated Nov. 12, 2015 A new civilian passenger terminal is constructed at the end of the Ranai Airbase runway on Natuna Besar, Indonesia, in 2014. Indonesia could take China to an international tribunal if Beijing’s South China Sea territorial claims, which...

October 30th, 2015 The Philippines scored a victory in the International Arbitration Tribunal after the panel unanimously decided Thursday that it has jurisdiction over the maritime dispute between China and the Philippines over the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea.) The decision means...