Stirrings over Spratlys
YET to completely extricate itself from the scandal over the scrapped national broadband network deal, the Arroyo government is again entangled in another brewing controversy concerning two agreements the country entered into with China and Vietnam to undertake seismic studies of the Spratly Islands.
Certain areas of the disputed territories in the South China Sea have been the subject of joint marine seismic undertaking (JMSU) agreements — the first signed between the Philippines and China on September 1, 2004 and the second signed between the two countries and
Vietnam on March 14, 2005 — to conduct research on their petroleum resource potential as a pre-exploration activity.
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