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MANILA, Philippines — A House lawmaker on Tuesday cut through the furor of two senators calling for volunteers to be Vice President Sara Duterte's security detail, emphasizing that Duterte was not stripped of all her security personnel when the Philippine National Police redeployed cops previously assigned to her.
India had for the first time last year, in a joint statement with the Philippines, unambiguously asked China to adhere to the legally-binding tribunal award Beijing has always called null and void. Before that, India had restricted itself to only calling for respecting the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), under which the tribunal was instituted.As they reassembled in Tokyo after the recent China-Philippines tensions, the ministers said they're determined to contribute to maintaining and developing the free and open maritime order consistent with UNCLOS in the Indian and the Pacific Oceans, and for this purpose, to enhance collaboration with regional partners.
China expectedly loomed over the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting in Tokyo Monday as India, US, Australia and Japan expressed serious concern over Beijing’s “dangerous manoeuvres” in the South China Sea (SCS) and called for an Indo-Pacific in which no country dominates and no country is dominated.In a first, India also joined others in upholding in a joint statement the 2016 arbitral tribunal award that refuted Beijing’s expansive claims over SCS waters in its maritime dispute with the Philippines as the basis for peacefully resolving such disputes.
TOKYO, Japan — The foreign ministers of the United States, Japan, Australia and India on Monday expressed "serious concern" over the situation in the South China Sea in a veiled rebuke to Beijing.
WITH a full-scale war against Lebanese militant group Hezbollah looming, the Philippine Embassy in Tel Aviv yesterday reiterated its call for Filipinos to indefinitely postpone their non-essential travel to Israel.
SEN. Bong Go on Monday appealed to the Philippine National Police (PNP) leadership to shun politics and be loyal to their sworn duty to serve all. The senator made the call as he echoed Vice President Sara Duterte's sentiment against PNP chief Rommel Marbil, who ordered the pullout of her security detail. Duterte lashed out at Marbil, saying his move was a «clear case of political harassment.» «VP Inday Sara, hindi ka nag-iisa (you are not alone),» Go said in a statement he posted on Facebook.
THE Commission on Audit has affirmed its 2018 decision denying the P13.05 million claim of a private security agency against the Metro Rail Transit 3 (MRT 3) representing non-payment for 125 security guards deployed to the rail line from January 1 to June 18, 2013.
BY GERARD NAVAL and VICTOR REYES