DFA dares Carpio over RORE deal criticisms: Provide alternative solutions
The DFA challenges former Supreme Court justice Antonio Carpio to propose alternative solutions to its provisional RORE deal with China, defending the…
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DFA Batanes statement
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DFA: Phl needs no approval from China for Ayungin resupply missions
The Department of Foreign Affairs asserts that the Philippines does not require permission from China to conduct routine rotation and resupply missions to…
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The architecture of Batanes is undeniably Filipino
‘The stone houses are Ivatan in their authorship and environmental intelligence, Austronesian in their deeper cultural foundations, and Philippine in the…
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DFA files protest vs. China Daily over racist depictions of Filipinos
The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs has filed a formal diplomatic protest against Chinese state-owned China Daily over racist and dehumanizing…
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Coveting Batanes
It isn’t that no one can take the fiction. Instead, everyone agreed the intellectually dishonest claim is, as Albert Camus would say, the ‘fiction is the lie…
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Security execs: Don’t dignify new Sino claim
The DFA firmly rejected claims questioning Philippine sovereignty over Batanes, calling them baseless and revisionist, as national security and defense…
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DFA rejects Chinese claims over Batanes, says sovereignty 'not up for debate'
The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs has firmly rejected Chinese scholars’ claims that Batanes falls under Chinese sovereignty, stressing that the…
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Batanes is Philippine territory
The National Security Council firmly rejects baseless claims by Chinese scholars that Batanes belongs to China, asserting the province is an integral and…
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We‘re provoking China: Batanes is Chinese
China is testing the world’s tolerance for nonsense. How much garbage can Beijing spew before newspapers, diplomats, academics stop laughing and start saying…
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AFP-WPS spokesman rejects Chinese claim over Batanes
AFP West Philippine Sea spokesman Rear Adm. Roy Vincent Trinidad rejects Chinese scholars’ claim that Batanes belongs to China, denouncing it as a false…
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Go urges DMW, DFA to assist Filipinos after Venezuela quakes
Senator Bong Go urges the Department of Migrant Workers and Department of Foreign Affairs to ensure timely assistance, clear advisories, and emergency support…
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DFA: No Pinoys hurt in Venezuela quakes
The Department of Foreign Affairs said no Filipinos were reported killed or injured after powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela, while authorities continue…
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