With the recent American foreign military aid package finally passing Congress and signed by the White House, one of its corollary, the bill to ban TikTok, is regaining traction in public debate. Since the last round of discourse, the positions of both sides have not...
INTERRELIGIOUS CONFERENCE 2024, Rome, Italy May 31 – June 4 Center for Interreligious Dialogue – Focolare Movement Nguyen Anh Tuan, Nguyen Phan Nguyet Minh In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the need for a comprehensive knowledge...
(BGF) - The Philippine showed its firm position when its Maritime police detained 11 Chinese fishermen and their boat off Hasa-Hasa Shoal, found nearly 400 live sea turtles on May 7. The seizure angered China as it claimed it has the sovereignty over the Ban Yue Reef,...
(Photo Credit: AFP/Japan Coast Guard) (BGF) - In this article, featured in The Washington Post, M. Taylor Fravel and Alastair Iain Johnston, professors at MIT and Harvard University, respectively, analyze recent data on the frequency of Chinese coast guard patrols off...
(BGF) - In a news conference, Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario told that the Philippines submitted documents, consist of nearly 4,000 pages of analysis and documentary evidence, to the tribunal in The Hague against China's territorial claims in the South China...
(BGF) - China's new law that requires foreign fishermen to seek Beijing's approval to operate in disputed waters of the South China Sea, increased tensions with Vietnam and the Philippines. The U.S. has also criticized China's move, calling it "provocative and...
(BGF) - China defended its new fishing rules in Hainan province by saying that it is "totally normal", and that it is in accordance to the national law to "regulate conservation, management and utilization of maritime biological resources", the Voice of America...
(BGF) - In a commentary issued by Chinese People's Daily, it accused the Philippines of making the Association of Southeast Asian Nations an “accomplice” in the “violation” of China’s “sovereignty” over some islets and shoals in the West Philippine Sea; “illegal...