City Hall wants P124M budget for garbage disposal

Izobelle T. Pulgo, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/31/2016

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña sought a P102 million budget that will go to outsourcing heavy equipment and dump trucks for the city’s garbage collection and disposal next year. The mayor also asked for P22 million in…

China, PH resume talk on sea disputes

AP 10/21/2016

BEIJING — China and the Philippines have agreed to resume a dialogue on their dispute over the South China Sea, a senior Chinese diplomat said Thursday following talks between the countries’ leaders. The move appeared to be…

Dylan, Tuesday morning

Raymund Fernandez 10/18/2016

I am wondering if I should make myself another cup of coffee. There will be consequence. There always is. But I am also wondering what to write about. Given the trajectories of the current world, there is…

China’s perilous game plan

07/16/2016

The ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague in support of the Philippines’ case against China’s hegemonic claim over almost the entire South China Sea will surely heighten tensions and instability in the region,…

Duterte mulls bilateral talks with China

07/15/2016

President Rodrigo Duterte is willing to engage in bilateral talks with China after the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) favored the Philippines over China in their maritime dispute. “Ang sabi niya (Duterte said), ‘Let’s see. We’ll start…

Ex-admiral: US should defend PH reef

07/15/2016

WASHINGTON — The United States should be willing to use military force to oppose Chinese aggression at a disputed reef off the coast of the Philippines, a former commander of US forces in the Pacific told a…

Philippines – 1; China – 0

Jobers R. Bersales 07/13/2016

Not that it was unexpected but the victory was still nonetheless most welcome for our country and all others that really could do nothing more than watch as the People’s Republic China was systematically occupying and expanding…

Fishermen vow to return to Scarborough July 13

07/13/2016

SUBIC, Zambales — Fishermen geared up on Tuesday afternoon for a return trip to the disputed Scarborough Shoal, after the United Nations’ Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague armed them with a favorable ruling on the…

IT’S OUR SEA

Carmel Loise Matus, Inquirer.net, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Victor Anthony V. Silva 07/12/2016

The United Nations (UN) Arbitral Tribunal has finally decided that the Philippines has exclusive sovereign rights to West Philippine Sea (in the South China Sea) and that China’s “nine-dash line” claim over disputed areas that included the…

Sea dispute and road safety

Stephen D. Capillas 06/30/2016

Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio’s very detailed, yet condensed presentation of the West Philippine/South China Sea dispute in last Thursday’s National Press Forum sponsored by the Philippine Press Institute in Manila may be quite taxing, even boring…

Man shot over electricity dispute

06/16/2016

A MAN suffered two gunshot wounds in his back and shoulder after he was shot over an electricity dispute on Wednesday afternoon. Jeffrey Salvador was walking towards home on P. del Rosario Extension, Barangay Sambag 1, Cebu…

Scarborough protest favors PH–US analyst

06/16/2016

The flag-planting of activists in Scarborough Shoal (Panatag Shoal) in the South China Sea is not likely to jeopardize the Philippines’ arbitration case against China, according to a US analyst. “I think that an act of population…

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