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[email protected] Mar. 16 - 22, 2017 Leni’s video vs. Duterte Journalist slain On to the NIT No evidence on wiretap It happened to me in real life PH NEWS | A2 PH NEWS | A3 SPORTS NEWS | A5 WORLD NEWS | A9 ENTERTAINMENT | B7 Duterte not alarmed despite Chinese presence in Benham Rise; says ‘no strings attached’ to their aid By Daniel Llanto | FilAm Star Correspondent President Rodrigo Duterte In a statement, the Department of ordered the military to assert the Foreign Affairs echoed that concern: country’s rights over Benham Rise, a “The Philippines has expressed its 13 million-hectare area off the coast of concern about the reported presence of Aurora province, after Chinese survey a Chinese ship in Benham Rise, which ships were seen making an “incur- has been recognized by the United sion” into Philippine territory over the Nations Commission on the Limits weekend. of the Continental Shelf as Philippine An alarmed Defense Sec. Delfin waters.” Lorenzana described the Chinese In 2012, three years after Mala- presence at Benham Rise as “the latest cañang filed a claim at the United incursion of China on Philippine ter- Nations, the UN recognized Benham ritory,” suggesting that China now has Rise as the property of the Philippines. its sights fixed on this Pacific Ocean The following year, the BFAR started a territory of the Philippines after practi- series of annual expeditions to Benham cally getting away with the occupation Rise, mainly to implement the law of of most of the West Philippine Sea.