• US helps PH strengthen maritime domain awareness

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is helping its Philippine counterpart strengthen the country’s maritime domain awareness.

• DILG supports LGUs in protecting municipal waters in WPS: Año

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) urged local government units (LGUs) to improve their management of municipal waters and even assured them of its support in protecting municipal waters and local aquatic resources in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), particularly in strengthening law enforcement against illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.

• DFA hits China’s restriction on Pinoy fishermen in Scarborough

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Thursday has protested China’s “incessant and unlawful” restriction imposed on Filipino fishermen in Scarborough Shoal or the Bajo de Masinloc.

• Fisherfolk call for probe into Chinese device found in West PH Sea

A fisherfolk group based in Luzon called on the government to probe the Chinese device found in waters off Pangasinan in July.

• Philippines to ignore new China maritime law within West PH Sea

Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said the Philippines did not recognize the new Chinese maritime law, which mandated foreign vessels in the South China Sea to “report their detailed information” to China.

• Leopoldo Laroya takes on the task of guarding the West Philippine Sea

Another member of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Maringal Class of 1988 has landed a top post in the country’s uniformed service.

• Philippines files 3 more protests vs China infractions in West Philippine Sea

Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Thursday, September 30, ordered the filing of three new diplomatic protests against China over a series of unlawful actions taken by Beijing in the West Philippine Sea.

• US sees ‘potential conflict’ in China move

The US Coast Guard said China’s new reporting requirements for foreign vessels in the South China Sea could trigger “instability and potential conflict” in the region.

• PH protests latest China sea foray

Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Thursday ordered the filing ofthree new diplomatic protests against China over a series of unlawful actions taken by Beijing in the West Philippine Sea.

• Brazil Judiciary regulates arbitral letters for communications between arbitrators and judicial courts

The Brazilian Justice Counsel published on September 29, 2021 a decision regulating arbitral letters, which are the instruments foreseen in Brazilian Arbitration Act and in the Brazilian Code of Civil Procedure for communications between arbitral tribunals and judicial courts