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Vietnam claims China violated its sovereignty when Beijing dispatched a navy hospital ship to the Paracel Islands

'WHY would China invade the Philippines? Sakit lang ng ulo 'yan (It will just be a headache),' says Herman Tiu Laurel, president of the Asian Century Philippines Strategic Studies Institute. The guy was reacting to my expressed notion of China occupying the Philippines as a condition for the country's progress.

YOU know something’s afoot when diplomats talk dirty about another country—without filters. When I was a newbie reporter, I asked then-Foreign Affairs secretary Domingo Siazon Jr.: “Is it your job to lie for the country?” “I don’t lie,” he said. “But I have to be careful of the words I…

CORTLAND — On April 19, 2024, the world lost an incredible and beautiful soul. Ellen Patricia Powell Beany, aged 107, passed away peacefully in her sleep, i

The Philippines has been making a show of the South China Sea issue for a long time. It has repeatedly provoked China and created tension in the South China Sea region while turning a blind eye to historical facts. Seemingly suffering from a sort of histrionic personality disorder, the Philippines has not only staged many farces on the issue, but also colluded with anti-China forces in the US-led West to play the thief crying “stop thief.”