IN ACT TO DECLARE THAT PUBLIC ACT NUMBERED FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-ONE, KNOWN AS “CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY SEA ACT,” ENACTED BY THE SEVENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, BE ACCEPTED, AS IT IS HEREBY ACCEPTED BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WHEREAS, the 74th Congress of the United States enacted Public Act No. 521, entitled Carriage […]
Bordered by ten nations and including some of the world’s most important shipping lanes and fisheries, the South China Sea is a vital region. Critically important mineral resources, including oil, are thought to be there in large quantities as well. The Chinese have long laid claim to nearly the entire South China Sea. That claim […]
MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES NAMING THE WEST PHILIPPINE SEA OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 1599 (1978) established the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the Philippines extending to a distance of two hundred nautical miles from the baselines of the Philippine archipelago; […]
By Ducky Paredes @ http://www.duckyparedes.com/blogs/2013/01/31/the-enemy-within/ ‘(W)e should at least begin doing something about the fifth column that China employs composed of Filipinos who will reveal themselves as traitors to their own country when China finally makes its move.’ I HONESTLY do not understand how young Filipinos will demonstrate in front of the United States Embassy […]
By Agence France-Presse @ http://globalnation.inquirer.net/67147/chinese-fishermen-on-front-line-of-marine-dispute TANMEN, China—The tropical waters of the West Philippine Sea are among the most contested on Earth, but Chinese fishermen who sail in them shrug off the dangers of navigating between multiple competing claimants. “It’s a little risky… but in Chinese regions we’re not afraid, we’re in sea which belongs to […]
By David Lague HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s naval and paramilitary ships are churning up the ocean around islands it disputes with Tokyo in what experts say is a strategy to overwhelm the numerically inferior Japanese forces that must sail out to detect and track the flotillas. A daily stream of bulletins announce ship deployments […]
By Tarra Quismundo Philippine Daily Inquirer @ http://globalnation.inquirer.net/66337/china-sends-more-ships-to-west-philippine-sea MANILA, Philippines—Despite the Philippines’ repeated protests and condemnation of China’s incursions into the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), a fleet of Chinese surveillance ships has again sailed into the contested waters on “regular patrol missions,” Chinese state media reported Friday. The Maritime Safety Administration of Hainan […]
FILIPINO WORLDVIEW By Roberto R. Romulo (The Philippine Star) @ http://www.philstar.com/business/2013/03/01/914349/cyber-security-threat-p.l..-unit-61398 “Global dependence on the Internet expands by leaps and bandwidth every day. Nations depend on a cyber infrastructure that enables the operation of financial markets, transportation networks, taxation and energy grids, as well as the public agencies protecting the health and security of their […]