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By Alexis Romero The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – A Chinese fishing fleet composed of 30 vessels sailed on Monday from Hainan province to the disputed Spratly islands in the West Philippine Sea for a “40-day operation,” a report in the state-run China Daily said yesterday. “The 40-day operation is the second of its kind organized by local fishery associations after Sansha city was established Read More …
Source: Korea News Effective year 2012, the Philippines have augmented its area into 43 Million hectares from 30 Million hectares. The United Nations has approved the Philippines’ territorial claim to Benham Rise, an undersea landmass in the Pacific Ocean potentially rich in mineral and natural gas deposits, Environment Secretary Ramon Paje said. “We own Benham Rise now,” Paje said in a media interview. “This is Read More …
By Pia Lee-Brago The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) has appointed the remaining three members of the five-member United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Arbitral Tribunal that will hear the Statement of Claim filed by the Philippines against China on the West Philippine Sea. Solicitor General Francis Jardeleza, head of Read More …
By Jeffrey Kitingan Free Malaysia Today UN involvement will allow Sabahans to re-visit the Malaysia Agreement, the 20-Point Agreement and the Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC) Report. Now that the situation in Sabah has attracted the attention of the United Nations whose secretary-general (Ban Ki-moon) has urged the Malaysian government to find an amicable solution, the government should take the opportunity to invite the UN to facilitate Read More …
PerryScope By Perry Diaz From the get-go of the Sabah incident, President Benigno “P-Noy” Aquino III appeared to be too accommodating to Malaysia. Recently, a news account reported that P-Noy was bent on extraditing Sultan Jamalul Kiram III and his Tausug followers to Malaysia despite the absence of an extradition treaty between the two countries. The news report attributed the story to Justice Secretary Leila Read More …
By REY O. ARCILLA MALAYA ‘When Del Rosario admitted that the missing letter of Kiram’s brother to Noynoy had been with the DFA all this time, he didn’t sound convincing at all. He was not even the foreign secretary at the time the letter reached his Department.’ Sultan Jamalul Kiram declared a unilateral cease-fire. Malaysia rejected it and said his followers will all be “destroyed” Read More …
By Rio Rose Ribaya Yahoo Newsroom ‘Sulu Sultan’ Jamalul Kiram III yesterday declared that his fight against Malaysia is a jihad. But instead of meeting with his generals for attacks or reinforcements, Kiram meets with legal volunteers that could help him press proprietary rights over Sabah in his Taguig home. “(The end to this conflict) depends (but) we always submit ourselves to the almighty Allah. Read More …
Source: RT.com Recent statements by Seoul have angered Pyongyang to the extent that the latter considers them a cry for war. This follows North Korea’s nullifying all non-aggression pacts and cutting the hotline with its southern neighbor. According to North Korea’s official news agency KCNA, Pyongyang’s senior official with the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea demanded an apology on Saturday, reacting to the Read More …
Source: Free Malaysia Today The Sulu Sultan says this would prevent further bloodshed and save lives MANILA: With Malaysia’s continued crackdown on followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III in Sabah, peacekeeping forces from the United Nations may have to step in to prevent further bloodshed. This was raised by sultanate spokesman Abraham Idjirani, who also called on Malaysia to let local and foreign journalists Read More …
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo The Philippine Star You have to hand it to the Sultanate of Sulu for its masterful utilization of propaganda methods. Their unilateral declaration of a ceasefire, timed after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called for a cessation of hostilities in Sabah, was a face saving devise to avert the humiliation of defeat by the vastly superior Malaysian Read More …