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...It also accuses Manila of reneging on a promise years ago to remove the ship — a claim the Philippines has rejected....
...Analysts cautioned that Marcos was not necessarily formally hardening Manila’s policy....
...Both shoals sit inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone, giving Manila the sole right to survey and exploit resources under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea....
...Beijing claims the South China Sea almost in its entirety, despite a 2016 arbitration ruling that rejected the main elements of its claims and found many of its uses of the waters violated Manila’s rights...
...Singapore foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan meets Philippine counterpart Enrique Manalo in Manila. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon begins an official visit to Thailand....
...The investments will be over the next “five to 10 years” in sectors including energy and digital infrastructure, Marcos’ press office said in a statement citing Jose Manuel Romualdez, Manila’s ambassador...
...At about the same time, Tokyo and Manila are expected to agree a reciprocal access agreement that could see Japanese troops deployed in the Philippines and conducting joint military exercises with the US...
...Events: US secretary of state Antony Blinken holds talks with Philippine officials in Manila. The Bank of Japan makes a decision on whether it will raise interest rates for the first time since 2007....
...It accuses Manila of reneging on what it says was a deal years ago to remove the ship from the reef....
...The Biden administration has expressed particular concern that clashes in recent weeks between Chinese vessels and the Philippine navy in the South China Sea could trigger its mutual defence treaty with Manila...
...The move comes as Manila and Beijing are embroiled in an increasingly heated stand-off over the Philippine military’s regular resupply missions to its outpost on Second Thomas Shoal, a sandbank in the South...
...Chinese ships tried to stop Manila from supplying soldiers stationed on the Sierra Madre, a decades-old ship lodged on the shoal....
...A Chinese maritime militia boat later bumped a Philippine coastguard vessel, Manila said. Neither side reported injuries....
...Manila grounded the ship in 1999 to reinforce its claim to the reef. Chinese coastguards have used water cannons to block the resupply missions, injuring Filipino sailors....
...In May 2022, allies of Okada led a “platoon of police” to the Manila casino and “forcibly ejected” its management, according to the judgment from Laster....
...Manila has granted US armed forces access to four more military bases, restarted long-suspended patrols in the disputed South China Sea and overseen the largest bilateral military exercises in more than...
...President Joe Biden has warned China not to engage in dangerous and unlawful activity towards the Philippines and warned that any attack on the US ally would trigger Washington’s mutual defence treaty with Manila...
...Leonardo Lanzona, an economist at Ateneo De Manila University in Manila, cautioned against government-mandated price controls and said the market should dictate levels....
...His gamble paid off spectacularly on September 30 1975, when HBO beamed the Thrilla in Manila — the legendary boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier — to its viewers in real time....
...The same can be said of Longchamp’s new boutique concepts in Kuala Lumpur and Manila. It’s an old idea that has been a given fresh revival....
...“I found that the gallery system in Manila then was unstructured, informal and lacking sustained partnerships,” says Lorenzo....
...In February, Manila said a Chinese coast guard ship temporarily blinded crew members of a Philippine coast guard vessel near the shoal by directing its laser at it....
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