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Since 2011, the Philippines has been confronted by increasingly complex maritime challenges in the West Philippine Sea/South ...

A SENIOR lawmaker is pushing for the passage of a bill mandating the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to establish the archipelagic sea lanes of the Philippines as espoused in the United Nations ...

MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Francis Tolentino formed a technical working group (TWG) to fine tune the consolidated bills designating archipelagic sea lanes (ASLs) in the Philippines. Under the United ...

The Philippines has adopted two types of baselines from which its maritime zones — territorial sea, contiguous zone, exclusive economic zone, and extended continental shelf — are measured. These two ...

AMONG the great triumphs of Philippine diplomacy has been the recognition of the archipelagic doctrine by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS). Obtained not without strong ...

Manama, Nov. 26 (BNA): Supreme Council for Environment Chief Executive Dr. Mohammed Mubarak Bin Daina has participated in the third ministerial meeting of the Archipelagic and Island State (AIS) Forum ...

Article by maryamdeluz, originally published in gasera journal. This is a republished article written by anarchists in the archipelago known as the Philippines or its diaspora. We at Bandilang Itim ...