The government should not only file a formal protest but also “demand accountability and compensation” from China for the grounding of a Chinese vessel at Tubbataha Reef in the Sulu Sea, the militant umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) said Tuesday.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Friday said it respected the US Navy’s decision to relieve four officers after one of its vessels damaged the Tubbataha Reefs but stressed that Manila needed to conduct its own probe of the incident.
The government will make sure the United States makes good on its pledge to compensate the Philippines for the damage inflicted by a US Navy ship on the Tubbataha Reef marine sanctuary, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Tuesday.
The United States’ (US) use of unmanned aerial vehicles or “drones” in the Philippines violates national sovereignty, a militant group said Tuesday.
Coinciding with the celebration of the Filipino-American Friendship Day, militant group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) marched to the US Embassy in Manila Wednesday to oppose a proposal allowing US spy planes to conduct flights over the Philippines, including the West Philippine Sea.
The left-wing militant umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) on Tuesday questioned the presence of another United States nuclear attack submarine in Subic Bay, the USS North Carolina, as it was ” misleading the public” and was made to appear that the port call “nothing out of the ordinary.”
Leftwing group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) said Friday it would hold a series of protest actions in the Philippines and in the United States to condemn the “neo-colonial relations” of the two countries, its head said.
The obscure 2002 Mutual Logistics Support Agreement (MLSA) between the Philippines and the United States may be the key to an increased US military presence in the country, according to the militant Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan).
A militant group is calling on the Philippine government to “scrutinize” reported plans of the US to rotate Marines around the Asia-Pacific region.
“To honor the people of Samar who fought valiantly for freedom” during the Philippine-American War, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said it would aggressively pursue diplomatic efforts for the return of the Balangiga bells that were carted away by American troops during their occupation of the Eastern Visayas province more than 110 years ago. [...]
