The U.S. State Department and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday stressed the need for ties with the Philippines to be based on mutual respect, after Manila's new leader raised worries about the future of the key alliance by calling President Barack Obama a "son of a bitch."
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday that the United States has no moral authority to give him a lecture on humans rights, warning he will not allow any country to interfere in Philippine internal affairs.
China said on Thursday it expects talks to be held between Beijing and Manila "at an early date", after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday that talks on the South China Sea dispute are likely within a year.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he expects talks with China on their South China Sea dispute within a year and he would not raise an international ruling rejecting China’s claims there when attending the ASEAN summit in Laos next month.
Indonesian foreign ministry has called on Philippine military and Abu Sayyaf group to establish a ceasefire in a bid to ensure the safety of Indonesians held hostage by the bandit group, an official said here Wednesday.
Japan on Friday (Aug 12) announced it is pouring a massive US$2.4 billion (S$3.2 billion) into a new railway in the Philippines aimed at easing Manila's notorious gridlock.
Both Beijing and Manila have kept a low profile over the visit of former Philippine president Fidel Ramos to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the past couple of days, but his mission has been evident: to seek the possibility of easing the strained bilateral relations.
The United States does not take a position on the competing sovereignty claims to the land features in the South China Sea, said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has expressed belief that the Philippines could get more benefits from China if the two countries could reach a settlement despite the recent ruling of the arbitral tribunal on the South China Sea issue.
For some time, China-Philippines ties were greatly harmed by the South China Sea arbitration unilaterally requested by the Aquino III administration in 2013. The arbitration not only breached the international law, but also the consensus between both sides.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday his administration will not honor international agreements which bind the country to limit its greenhouse emissions.
Defense ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines are to meet in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday in an effort to step up maritime security as the threat of piracy is escalating in the region, an Indonesian minister said on Monday.
Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay said Friday the Philippines will continue to engage "concerned parties" as he raised the South China Sea issue at the meeting of the leaders from Asia and Europe in Mongolia.
'We cannot lose one centimeter of inheritance left by the ancestors,' nation's top diplomat says.
The award issued by the Arbitral Tribunal in the South China Sea arbitration case is "illegal," and the territorial dispute must be resolved through bilateral dialogue, many Latin American experts have said.
Following is the full text of the Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China on the Award of 12 July 2016 of the Arbitral Tribunal in the South China Sea Arbitration Established at the Request of the Republic of the Philippines issued on Tuesday.
Trade and economic cooperation between China and the Philippines have great potentialand both countries should overcome political obstacles and interference from outsidenations for their people's best interest, analysts said.
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