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MANILA/TOKYO -- The Philippines and Japan are set to elevate their security partnership when their defense and foreign ministers hold a crucial "two-plus-two" meeting in Manila on Monday amid worsening tensions between the Southeast Asian country and China in the South China Sea.
TAIPEI (Reuters) -- Chinese aircraft carrier the Shandong passed close to the northern Philippines on its way to drills in the Pacific, Taiwan's defense minister said on Wednesday, as Taipei reported dozens of warplanes joining the ship for exercises.
Abdul Rahman Yaacob, a research fellow with the Southeast Asia programme at Australian think tank Lowy Institute, said the Philippines had to do more than conduct symbolic deployments, noting a constant naval presence was needed across the economic zone and archipelago, especially in the contested area.
The trove of equipment at the clandestine hospital could transform a person’s appearance to the point of being unrecognisable, PAOCC spokesman Winston John Casio told This Week in Asia.
The latest arrest of a 21-year-old Chinese national over false documents used in a Philippine passport application in Davao has deepened controversy in the country over an unusual influx of Chinese workers in the illegal offshore gaming sector.
TOKYO -- An educational company that runs a private Japanese university and owns a stake in a small college in the Philippines is recruiting more students from Japan, South Korea and Taiwan to study English in the Southeast Asian country as a cheaper alternative to the U.S. and Europe.
The Philippines' dependency on coal-fired power surged 62% last year, overtaking China, Indonesia and Poland, according to London-based energy think-tank Ember.
The Philippine foreign ministry vowed to be “relentless in protecting its interests and upholding its sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction in the West Philippine Sea” – the local designation for the parts of the South China Sea claimed by Manila.