The Philippines’ friends and non-friends
"Countries that cause the Philippines harm and damage—encroaching upon its territory, harming its fishermen, etc.—are its non-friends." With the passage ...
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Ask the Chinese
"Did we actually win in 2016?" Two major events of June and July this year: One, the June 9 ...
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The real sacred cow
More than a week after a Chinese vessel rammed and sank a Filipino fishing boat and left its crew of ...
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Maritime border pact completed
The completion of the Philippines’ and Indonesia’s agreement on sea boundaries will serve as a benchmark for future accords on ...
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Discretion is the better part of valor
"These are positive signs in bilateral relations and economic cooperation." Tension is brewing in Philippines-China relations. We’ve been reading ...
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The real Cayetano balancing act
Students of Civics are taught that the President of the Philippines is the high official whose duty it is to ...
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Aquino blamed for China’s island building binge
CHINA’S island building spree in the disputed waters of the South China Sea should be blamed on the Aquino administration, ...
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Benham Rise
Like the frontier northwest Palawan area that produced the country’s first commercial oil and natural gas fields, Benham Rise must ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.