Fitting a nanomodem to each drone in a shoal will let it talk to the others, permitting shoal members to co-ordinate their activities.
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"China is not reclaiming Scarborough Shoal," Aquino said, allaying the fears that Beijing might reclaim the shoal, just outside the former U.S. naval base in Subic.
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Scarborough Shoal, known in the Philippines as Panatag Shoal and in China as Huangyan Island, is at the center of both the ecological and political dramas.
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The Philippines did so in the 1990s when it intentionally grounded an obsolete World War II-era transport ship in Ayungin Shoal, also called Second Thomas Shoal.
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South China Sea Duterte's talks with Xi included fishing rights in the Scarborough Shoal -- known as Panatag Shoal in the Philippines -- a source of contention between the Philippines and China.
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It was taken in the Philippines, not at Scarborough Shoal.
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In "Eye of the Shoal," though, she's somewhat less so.
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The Chinese have not yet begun construction on Scarborough Shoal.
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Navigating such a shoal to its target, though, is a problem.
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China had repelled fishermen since seizing the Scarborough Shoal in 2012.
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China bullied the Philippines away from the shoal four years ago.
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China allowed Philippine fishermen back onto the shoal in late 2016.
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He said the shoal had been named for the ship's gold.
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I later uncovered the truth behind the naming of the shoal.
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In return for that, Philippine and Chinese fishermen could operate in the waters around Scarborough Shoal, but not inside the vast lagoon of the shoal because of environmental damage from overfishing in those waters, he said.
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Others include Scarborough Shoal, a traditional Philippine fishing ground that was occupied by China in 2012, and Second Thomas Shoal, where a small group of Philippine soldiers is based in the rusting hulk of a grounded ship.
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Since China began building artificial islands in the Spratly archipelago near the Scarborough Shoal, former military officials have hinted that Beijing would start to build the shoal into a more permanent platform able to accommodate military installations.
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He said Xi wanted to create a "favorable environment" at the shoal.
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China wrested control of the shoal, used by Filipino fishermen, in 2012.
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Asked later — war or not over the Scarborough Shoal — the admiral chuckled.
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The Army already is in shoal waters with difficulty meeting recruiting goals.
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China had strengthened its "management" around the shoal, she added, without elaborating.
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Although Chinese Coast Guard ships have granted Philippine fishermen access to the shoal in recent weeks as part of a reconciliation between the countries, the shoal is still widely seen as a potential target of the island-building campaign.
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Philippine coast guard ships also resumed patrols in the vicinity of the shoal.
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The arbitration panel ruled that no one country can legally control the shoal.
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China allowed Philippine vessels to fish near Scarborough Shoal, a disputed tidal atoll.
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China allowed Philippine fishermen to return to the Scarborough Shoal after Duterte's visit.
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Manila says China's blockade of the shoal is a violation of international law.
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Shoal Lake 40 Chief Erwin Redsky urged Trudeau to act on his promises.
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A photograph released by Xinhua showed a Chinese bomber flying near the shoal.
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Trudeau talks with Stewart Redsky on the temporary bridge at Shoal Lake 40.
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Chief among these moments, Mr. Vuving said, was China's takeover of Scarborough Shoal.
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China's new courtship of the Philippines argues against any provocative building on Scarborough Shoal.
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Filipino fishermen have complained of harassment by Chinese government vessels in the Scarborough Shoal.
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China seized the Scarborough Shoal in 2012 after a tense standoff with the Philippines.
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One of the vessels was actually in the mouth of the shoal, he added.
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That means the Bowditch was within 200 miles of Scarborough Shoal, American analysts said.
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Fish can band together, sometimes in the millions, to form a school or shoal.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that there had been no change to the situation around Scarborough Shoal, after the Philippines said it was seeking clarification from China about an increase in ships near the disputed South China Sea shoal.
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VICE suggested several remote reserves and the Prime Minister's office decided on Shoal Lake 40.
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Scarborough Shoal would complete a "strategic triangle" that would allow it to dominate the sea.
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More than one diet was dashed on the shoal of an early-morning cookie buffet.
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Filipino fishermen have also complained of harassment by Chinese government vessels near the Scarborough Shoal.
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After a few modifications to include a detachable tent topper, the Shoal Tent was born.
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The library sits next to Shoal Creek and Lady Bird Lake, areas of natural beauty.
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The library sits next to Shoal Creek and Lady Bird Lake, areas of natural beauty.
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Crossing the Chatham shoal, the CG36 rolled over twice, and the compass and windshield were smashed.
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At their APEC meeting, Duterte proposed setting up a marine sanctuary in the Scarborough Shoal lagoon.
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Its defense ministry expressed "grave concern" that China was preparing to build structures at the shoal.
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This week, however, Philippine television has shown fishermen returning from the shoal grinning, their boats full.
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Presumably the red line set by Mr Obama—no Chinese construction on Scarborough Shoal—still holds.
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RELATED: Obama's Philippine problem Analysts say the Scarborough Shoal could be a strategic foothold for China.
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As with Scarborough Shoal, China has seized and built on a number of reefs and islets.
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Arriving home, Duterte said he had discussed Scarborough Shoal with the Chinese, but did not elaborate.
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It hasn't even withdrawn its coastguard vessels which, though well-behaved, continue to patrol the shoal.
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It is in this context that the threat of building at Scarborough Shoal causes such alarm.
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Faced with a shoal of troubles, it now appears to be on the brink of default.
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China seized control of the shoal in 2012, using coast guard vessels to bar Filipino fishermen.
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Li made no direct mention of Scarborough Shoal in the comments provided by the foreign ministry.
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Transforming a shoal right under his nose would ruin any chance of that, these analysts say.
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"Myself, I'm a destroyed individual," Stewart Redsky, a lifelong resident of Shoal Lake 240 told Trudeau.
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"Myself, I'm a destroyed individual," Stewart Redsky, a lifelong resident of Shoal Lake 210 told Trudeau.
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Could somewhere like Half Moon Shoal be the next flash point in the South China Sea?
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China has not renounced its claim over the shoal, nor has the Philippines conceded China's claim.
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China reneged on the agreement, kept its ships at Scarborough, and controls the shoal to this day.
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Returning fishermen said two or three Chinese coastguard ships circled the shoal but had not harassed them.
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In 2012, China seized the disputed Scarborough Shoal and denied Philippine fishermen access to its fishing grounds.
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But guarding the waters, the mouth of Scarborough Shoal, was a 130-foot Chinese Coast Guard ship.
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Then China seized the shoal, and Chinese Coast Guard vessels have chased away Filipino fishermen ever since.
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It also declared the Scarborough Shoal a traditional fishing ground that all claimants were entitled to exploit.
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China seized Scarborough Shoal - claimed by Beijing as Huangyan Island and by Manila as Panatag - in 2012.
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An end to the standoff over the shoal is still a potentially combustible issue for both countries.
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He said the Manila's claim over the Scarborough Shoal "is recognized under our constitutional law and international law".
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Back in 2012, China seized the Scarborough Shoal by deploying powerful coastguard cutters to evict the Philippine navy.
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Beijing hasn't dropped its claims to the Scarborough Shoal, nor have its own fishermen been forced to leave.
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In the case of Shoal Lake 1203, residents have been on a boil water advisory for 17 years.
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In the case of Shoal Lake 40, residents have been on a boil water advisory for 17 years.
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China exploits his weakness, increasing its military presence around Scarborough Shoal without building any railway lines in Mindanao.
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Reports that Chinese Coast Guard vessels had left Scarborough Shoal were not confirmed by Chinese state-run media.
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The Philippines filed the case in 2013 after China took control of a reef known as Scarborough Shoal.
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The primary threat facing the Serenity, rather, is the poorly-mapped seabed, and grounding on an unexpected shoal.
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"If they do military construction at Scarborough Shoal, that would drive Mr. Duterte back to the United States."
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The vessel would be suitable for dredging at Scarborough Shoal, a disputed reef 150 miles from the Philippines.
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The Philippine foreign ministry said it had yet to receive a report about Chinese activity in Scarborough Shoal.
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EYE OF THE SHOAL A Fishwatcher's Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything By Helen Scales 320 pp.
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It was named after the 19th century steamer El Dorado, which ran aground on the previously unmapped shoal.
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It won't bring clean drinking water to Shoal Lake 40, and it won't solve Cross Lake's suicide crisis.
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Just as they gave in to drowning, the ship ran aground on a shoal in the Mid-Atlantic.
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But a less obvious handicap also plagues communities like Shoal Lake 40: limited access to high speed internet connections.
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There are also ships around Second Thomas Shoal so we want to make sure if the presence is permanent.
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And he wants Filipino fishermen to be able to return to their traditional fishing grounds around the Scarborough Shoal.
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A grotesque beast—captioned "the monster of the West"—looms over a city, grasping at a shoal of fish.
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The Philippines has sparred with China for decades over what it says is aggressive conduct at the Scarborough Shoal.
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And although it still turns away some Philippine vessels, it has not built any military installations on Scarborough Shoal.
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It did not say when or where the picture was taken, but Chinese media identified it as Scarborough Shoal.
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"President Xi has promised President Duterte they will not reclaim and build structures on Scarborough Shoal," Yasay told reporters.
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A no-less-worrying possibility is that China might start building on Scarborough Shoal, where the court case began.
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Scarborough Shoal is the largest outcrop in the dispute between the Philippines and China in the South China Sea.
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The Philippines said on Wednesday it was seeking clarification from China about the increase in ships near the shoal.
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The State Department brokered a deal that called for the Chinese and the Philippine vessels to leave the shoal.
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For several years, Chinese Coast Guard vessels and fishing trawlers have hovered around the reef, known as Scarborough Shoal.
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The Chinese, who also claim the shoal, sent vessels from nearby artificial islands, but the Philippines refused any help.
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Videos featuring SmithFly's Shoal Tent, which costs $1,499, have racked up well over 20 million combined views on Facebook.
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The maneuver typically begins with the whales gathering beneath the shoal of prey and producing bubbles from their blowholes.
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China seized the shoal, which is northeast of the Spratly islands, in 2012 and denied access to Philippine fishermen.
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At this time, the waters within the shoal are not accessible to either Chinese or Filipino fishermen, Wu said.
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Fishermen would be granted access to the shoal for humanitarian reasons if a typhoon hit the waters, he added.
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"And unfortunately that bottom lip isn't from injections, it's Shoal," he admitted in the caption, referencing the chewing tobacco brand.
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China seized Scarborough Shoal in 2012, denying Philippine fishermen access, one of the factors that prompted Manila to seek arbitration.
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Last month, the head of US naval operations, Admiral John Richardson,said Chinese activity had been observed around the shoal.
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On Sunday, the Preble sailed near the disputed Scarborough Shoal claimed by China in the South China Sea, angering Beijing.
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Simmering tensions Tension first flared at the Scarborough Shoal in 2012 when China effectively evicted Filipino fishermen from the area.
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Duterte's predecessor, Benigno Aquino III, responded by bringing the shoal dispute and other territorial issues against China to international arbitration.
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For the next four years, Washington failed to craft an effective strategy to get Chinese ships out of the shoal.
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Duterte's national security adviser, Hermogenes Esperon, confirmed there had been no agreement between the two countries about the Scarborough Shoal.
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The suggested construction by China on Scarborough Shoal would be a red line for any Filipino president, Mr. Cook said.
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On Sunday, the Preble sailed near the disputed Scarborough Shoal claimed by China in the South China Sea, angering Beijing.
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China has impeded fishing at Scarborough Shoal since 2013 when Mr. Duterte's predecessor challenged maritime claims before an international tribunal.
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In July, the court ruled that no country had sovereign rights to the shoal, so all countries could fish there.
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Privately, he made it clear that he wanted China to grant Filipino fishermen the right to return to the shoal.
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The last time the Isla had made the journey to Scarborough, the Chinese intercepted it five miles from the shoal.
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The book unfolds into a sprawling, ambitious underwater journey, exploring everything from poisonous fish to shoal formation to fish coloration.
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Shoal Lake 40 Chief Erwin Redsky is optimistic about the government spending announced Tuesday, but there's frustration in his voice.
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When Birmingham Audubon returned to the shoal later last month, the group counted nearly 70 fledglings, about three weeks old.
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Since then, the group has not observed human footprints or any boats pulling up to the shoal, Ms. Barnes said.
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The case was brought by the Philippines after Scarborough Shoal was commandeered by China in 2012, following a tense blockade.
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"Negative, ma'am," replied Lt. Joshua Grant, as he used a control stick to position the plane's camera over Scarborough Shoal.
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In 2012, it seized a reef near the Philippines called Scarborough Shoal—China's boldest use of force in the area.
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S.'s class in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada, and "Effects of Urbanization on Availability of Water" by Abby of Michigan.
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"A precondition for that is that the Philippines will respect China's sovereignty and jurisdiction in Scarborough Shoal," Mr. Wu said.
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A joint statement in Japan emphasised respect for the UN treaty on which the tribunal's ruling on Scarborough Shoal was based.
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The surprising footage was filmed on the waters surrounding Massachusetts' Stone Horse Shoal and shows a boy on a fishing trip.
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China's 2012 seizure of the Scarborough Shoal, denying Philippine fishermen access, was among the factors that prompted Manila to seek arbitration.
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Police warn that if the drugs make it far enough, they will end up being consumed by gators in Shoal Creek.
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China's Foreign Ministry was asked by media on Friday about the situation at the shoal but gave a non-committal answer.
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Something is definitely happening a few hundred yards away from where we're sitting, in the middle of a shoal of mackerel.
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Footage from of our day with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he meets with the young people of Shoal Lake 40.
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Military analysts have suggested that efforts by China to reclaim the shoal could prompt an aggressive response from the United States.
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It is being published as Chinese coast guard and other vessels return to Scarborough Shoal, sparking formal diplomatic protests from Manila.
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The Chinese have occupied the shoal, which is about 120 nautical miles off the west coast of the Philippines, since 2012.
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"They refused to allow us to get near Scarborough Shoal," Joy Ban-eg, leader of the Kalayaan Atin group, told reporters.
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Both China and the Philippines claim the shoal, which the United States used as a firing range during the Vietnam War.
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The Shoal Creek course has taken a lot of rain over the past few weeks but remained in relatively good shape.
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Mr. Obama warned Mr. Xi at a March 2016 meeting in Washington not to start building an island at Scarborough Shoal.
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In early 2012, both Chinese and Philippine boats crowded the shoal, 124 nautical miles from the main Philippine island of Luzon.
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CHINA TAIWAN Hong Kong VIETNAM LAOS Gulf of Tonkin "The Nine Dash Line" China's territorial claim Paracel Islands PHILIPPINES Scarborough Shoal Manila South China Sea CAMBODIA Spratly Islands Subi Reef Mischief Reef Fiery Cross Reef Half Moon Shoal West London Reef Sulu Sea 200 miles By The New York Times "I mean, this is insane," Lieutenant Coughlin said.
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Last year Barack Obama's administration is thought to have warned China that America would block any attempt to build on the shoal.
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With a new outpost in the shoal, Beijing could "further perfect" its air coverage across the South China Sea, the source said.
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One day, when a wave washed a shoal of squid onboard, the crew thanked Neptune once more and ate a seafood curry.
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The shoal, after all, is only some 220km from the Philippine mainland, within its exclusive economic zone, but almost 900km from China.
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Yasay added the Philippines wanted some assurance that their fishermen will continue to have access to the disputed Scarborough Shoal to fish.
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Any action by China to reclaim land in the Scarborough Shoal, an outcrop in the disputed sea, would have consequences, Carter said.
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Earlier in the day, the Philippines formally asked China's embassy in Manila to explain news reports about building plans for Scarborough Shoal.
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Liu said the shoal was not mentioned and he did not answer a question about whether Philippine fishermen would be allowed there.
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Justice Minister Vitaliano Aguirre told reporters Manila would file a complaint against Beijing's plan to install a radar station on Scarborough Shoal.
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The shoal is only slightly visible in the second shot, but by July the island is clear, wrapping around the cape's tip.
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In recent weeks, Chinese military commentators have indicated that Beijing would like to begin developing the shoal, possibly by adding an airstrip.
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A recent report by Xinhua, the official news agency, called Scarborough Shoal an "inalienable part of the Chinese territory" since ancient times.
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She shot rounds of 76 and 75 for a 7-over 151 at Shoal Creek and missed the cut by three strokes.
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Several of its eruptions reportedly built ephemeral shoal islands in the 18th and 19th centuries, and more definitively in 1967 and 1979.
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The Philippine national security adviser confirmed the report about the Chinese activity on the resource-rich shoal which China seized in 2012.
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The Philippines has been especially worried that China will start building islands on the Scarborough Shoal, about 220 miles northwest of Manila.
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Left unsaid by Mr. Wu was China's ambition to start reclamation work at Scarborough Shoal and transform it into a military platform.
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President Obama specifically warned Mr. Xi at a meeting in Washington in March not to start building an island at Scarborough Shoal.
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The Chinese later defied the deal, placing a cordon across the mouth of the shoal and positioning a coast guard vessel nearby.
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Scarborough Shoal, with a deep lagoon covering nearly 60 square miles, offers an even bigger prize as a potential Chinese military base.
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"The picture would become even worse were China to build and militarize a similar island base at Scarborough Shoal," Mr. Shugart wrote.
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But the damage had been done: ABC and ESPN lost more than $2 million in advertising because of Shoal Creek's racist policy.
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Smith of Australia extended her lead to four strokes after a second consecutive round of five-under-par 277 at Shoal Creek.
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In New Jersey, Floats & Boats is a popular festival at Tices Shoal that, as the name implies, celebrates both floats and boats.
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The ship has split in half, and to keep it from breaking apart completely, it has been purposely run aground on a shoal.
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Over the past few months, VICE has worked closely with the community in Shoal Lake 40 to prepare for the prime minister's visit.
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A potential flashpoint for a future war lies barely 170 nautical miles from Corregidor—a ring of reefs and rocks called Scarborough Shoal.
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Last month the migrants climbed the 136-year-old American Shoal Lighthouse, an iron structure about 6.5 miles south of the Florida Keys.
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A justice on the Philippine supreme court has warned Mr Duterte that ceding the shoal would be unconstitutional, and thus an impeachable offence.
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On Friday, Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana announced that Chinese vessels had left the Scarborough Shoal, allowing for the return of Philippines fishermen.
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In 2016, just after Mr Duterte became president, the tribunal ruled in the Philippines' favour, saying China's claim to the shoal was baseless.
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To the north, on the left bank of the Tae-Hwa river, stands Hyundai's vast carworks and a shimmering shoal of new vehicles.
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The auction for the Minneapolis Shoal lighthouse ends on August 15, while bids for the Craighill Channel Lower Range lighthouse close September 15.
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In 2015, Obama halted exploration in coastal areas of the Beaufort and Chukchi seas and the Hanna Shoal, an important area for walrus.
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It was not immediately clear if that meant China had given an indication it would end its four-year blockade of the shoal.
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In March President Barack Obama reportedly warned Mr Xi that reclamation on the shoal would threaten America's interests and could cause military escalation.
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One major variable is whether China will build up and install an airstrip on Scarborough Shoal, less than 150 miles from Subic Bay.
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A decision by Beijing to allow Filipino fishermen back into the waters of Scarborough Shoal could go a long way toward reducing tensions.
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He returned to the Philippines with $24 billion in Chinese loan and investment commitments, but there was apparently no agreement on Scarborough Shoal.
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To begin answering that question, one might look to China's efforts to create artificial islands, such as it is doing near Scarborough Shoal.
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"The Scarborough Shoal has been China's territory since ancient times," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said at a regular briefing in Beijing.
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In a sweeping ruling against China on the South China Sea in July, an international tribunal in The Hague focused on Scarborough Shoal.
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Another researcher had sold my company his research, claiming the wreck had taken place on El Dorado Shoal near Bimini, in the Bahamas.
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"The slab surely does represent a shoal of young fishes," said Michael Benton, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Bristol in England.
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Reuters exclusively reported on the eve of Duterte's visit to China that Beijing would consider granting Philippine fishermen conditional access to the shoal.
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Its 10-man crew once made their living off the abundant fish stocks of the disputed Scarborough Shoal some 124 nautical miles away.
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"I'll vote because somebody will resolve the issue in the Scarborough Shoal," said Alexander Manzano, fixing a boat moored on a makeshift dock.
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Mr. Duterte's communications secretary, Martin Andandar, quoted Mr. Xi as having called for a "favorable environment" at Scarborough Shoal, which both countries claim.
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The ship went off course and was grounded in Douglas Shoal, which lies in the southern reaches of the iconic reef, causing extensive damage.
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But to accurately determine whether the fish really were counting, the team got the guppies to judge shoal size one fish at a time.
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The two planes flew within 1,000 feet of each other in the general vicinity of the contested Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
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"We've earmarked significant money for broadband improvement," Trudeau told VICE's Patrick McGuire in an interview at Shoal Lake 40, which is near Kenora, Ontario.
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Humpback whales have been observed diving 150 feet below a shoal of prey and forcing it to the surface amid a circle of bubbles.
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The USS Lake Champlain collided with a Korean fishing vessel in May and the USS Antietam struck bottom near a shoal in Tokyo Bay.
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When the Philippines contested China's claim to Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, China suddenly stopped buying its bananas, supposedly for health reasons.
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Tensions first flared at the Scarborough Shoal in 2012 when China effectively evicted Filipino fishermen from the area, souring relations between the two countries.
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After capturing the ANA Inspiration two months ago, Lindberg will go for successive major titles at Shoal Creek in Birmingham, Alabama starting on Thursday.
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Accordingly, Beijing's purported aim of turning the shoal into a military airstrip within missile range of Manila has, in effect, been put on ice.
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"We believed that this is precursor to possible building of structures on the shoal," he said, adding that China's denial was "even more disturbing".
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Shoal Lake 40, on the other hand, has been asking for a water treatment plant and an access road dubbed Freedom Road for years.
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The tribunal's July ruling, which China refuses to acknowledge, declared the shoal a traditional fishing ground that Chinese, Philippine and Vietnamese could all exploit.
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Asked about Philippine fishermen entering the area unimpeded, China's foreign ministry spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, said China always had "normal administration" over the Scarborough Shoal.
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Besides, despite its legal setback, China's military position in the South China Sea is stronger than ever—even without a base on Scarborough Shoal.
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Any action by China to reclaim land in the Scarborough Shoal, an outcrop in the disputed South China Sea, would have consequences, Carter said.
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But the possibility has to be considered, and Scarborough Shoal is now the place Pentagon officials say the United States might take a stand.
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But 120,803 years ago, this limestone outcrop was part of a white sandy shoal beneath a sea that covered the lower third of Florida.
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In 2012, China took over the shoal by expelling Philippine fishermen and deploying a patrol of coast guard vessels to prevent the fishermen's returning.
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Four Chinese Coast Guard vessels have been permanently positioned near the shoal, an area of about 56 square miles, in recent weeks, he said.
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That does not mean China has given up on the long-term goal of what could be a vast military base on Scarborough Shoal.
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Shoal Bay, on the northeast coast, and Meads Bay and Barnes Bay, to the southwest, are "traditionally popular" with foreign buyers, Mr. Cooper said.
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He said he saw a volleyball net appear on the shoal earlier this summer, and on July 4, he saw 17 boats around it.
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But Chinese Coast Guard vessels could be seen circling the shoal, and Philippine fishermen have complained about being prevented from accessing their traditional waters.
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The recent incidents at the Scarborough Shoal drew attention after a local TV network interviewed some fishermen and showed video of the alleged Chinese confiscations.
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"Beijing will take action to carry out land reclamation at Huangyan Island within this year," said the source, who requested anonymity, referring to the shoal.
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US forces will also have access to at least eight military bases in the Philippines, with two air bases in Pampanga, 330km from Scarborough Shoal.
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He plans to add a surface drone to the shoal, to pick up GPS signals and then broadcast its position acoustically to the underwater drones.
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The BEMs drop to the sea bed as a shoal, scan the area with sonar, and return to upload their data and recharge their batteries.
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Duterte has told Xi he will unilaterally turn the shoal into a marine sanctuary, banning fishing within the lagoon and restricting it to the peripherals.
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Shortly after Duterte discussed the Scarborough dispute with Xi in a state visit to Beijing, Filipinos were allowed to return to the shoal to fish.
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By cozying up to China and trash-talking America, Duterte has achieved something that Washington couldn't deliver: a peaceful resolution to the Scarborough Shoal standoff.
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The PCA award said no one country had sovereign rights to the Scarborough Shoal, thus all claimants were legally entitled to exploit its fish stocks.
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Filipino fishermen who went close to the shoal said China's coastguard was no longer repelling them, as it had done over the past four years.
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Chinese military commentators have said China plans to make the Scarborough Shoal, an atoll Beijing grabbed from the Philippines four years ago, into a fortress.
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It was unclear, however, if Wang and Duterte discussed China's decision to start preparatory work this year for an environmental monitoring station on Scarborough Shoal.
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Mr. Duterte has repeatedly urged China to stop blockading the shoal but suggested that he would not make a big deal of the legal case.
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The United States fears that China plans to build a bigger military base on Scarborough Shoal, which is about 140 miles from the Philippine coast.
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Duterte wants China to abide by the ruling and allow access to the Scarborough Shoal, a traditional fishing ground for Chinese, Filipino and Vietnamese fishermen.
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He has talked about trying to settle an impasse with China over the Scarborough Shoal, a disputed clump of rocks in the South China Sea.
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Sitting midway between the islands of Kao and Late, Lateiki — formerly known as Metis Shoal — is just one member of an extended family of volcanoes.
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Some of the Chinese vessels spotted off the shoal last week could be dredges to do preliminary building work, said Mr. Lorenzana, the defense minister.
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For Dave Govatski, a naturalist who opposes a hotel proposed near the top of Mount Washington, it is Shoal Pond, several miles from the road.
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China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang made no mention of a coast guard withdrawal when asked about the return of Philippine fishermen to the shoal.
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After lobbying from Duterte, China agreed to let Philippine boats back to the rich fishing ground of the disputed Scarborough Shoal following a four-year blockade.
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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine president&aposs spokesman says the Chinese coast guard&aposs seizures of fish caught by Filipino fishermen near a disputed shoal are unacceptable.
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In 2012 boats from Tanmen were part of a navy-led operation to wrest control of Scarborough Shoal from the Philippines, chasing Philippine fishing vessels away.
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Whereas the Scarborough Shoal was disputed solely by China and the Philippines, several countries, including China and the Philippines, have rival claims in the Spratly Islands.
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And on June 12th, Philippine independence day, Mr Duterte was thrown off guard by protests over Chinese seizures of fish from Filipino vessels near Scarborough Shoal.
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According to the Financial Times, Obama warned his Chinese counterpart in March that China would face serious consequences if it reclaimed land at the Scarborough Shoal.
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Mellwig and Köner have also shared the six-track album's lead single "Shoal Beat," a tempestuous track that feels caught between competing centrifugal and centripetal forces.
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Yasay said it would be a "game changer" if China broke its promise not to build on the shoal, adding he was confident it would not.
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"We have sought clarification from China on reported plans on Scarborough Shoal," Charles Jose, foreign ministry spokesman, said in a text message sent to news organizations.
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"There were four Chinese coastguard ships and six other vessels, including blue-coloured barges, around Scarborough Shoal," he said in a text message sent to reporters.
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As part of a complex ruling, a tribunal in The Hague declared no one country had sovereign rights to the Scarborough Shoal, a prime fishing patch.
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The dispute over the Scarborough Shoal is one of several involving South East Asian countries seeking to counter China's growing assertiveness in the South China Sea.
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China seized Scarborough Shoal - claimed by Beijing as Huangyan island and by Manila as Panatag - in 2012, denying Philippine fishermen access to its rich fishing grounds.
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Similar tactics worked in driving the Philippines out of two other parts of the South China Sea: Mischief Reef in 1995 and Scarborough Shoal in 2012.
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Duterte said on Thursday he would not surrender the country's rights over the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, which China seized in 2012.
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The Philippines has long claimed Scarborough Shoal, an outcrop off its western coast that was once used as a firing range by the United States military.
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Zha Daojiong, an international relations professor at China's Peking University, said a deal over renewed Philippines access to Scarborough Shoal could be expected at the visit.
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Lorenzana said Beijing had earlier this year tried to send dredging barges to the shoal, but there was no sign of any reclamation activity so far.
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The wooden-hulled fishing boat came close to shoal when China's coastguard blocked them and ordered them to go back to the Philippines, the group said.
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In the last several years, the Chinese have built a group of artificial islands with military capabilities in the Spratly Archipelago, not far from Scarborough Shoal.
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It was a long, sweaty day at Shoal Creek, especially for those who had to complete their second round on Saturday morning before playing the third.
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Philippine media said this week that a group of fishermen had been chased away from Scarborough Shoal by Chinese coast guards who hurled bottles at them.
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China's embassy in Manila said there has been no dredging or building at the shoal and China has maintained a coastguard presence there for law enforcement patrols.
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The officials said the Philippines expressed concern to China in February after coast guard personnel boarded a Filipino fishing boat in Scarborough Shoal and took its catch.
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Shoal Bay, Australia is one of several locations thought to be linked to the transmission of E19703a Cherry Ripe, a sister station to E03 The Lincolnshire Poacher.
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Shoal Bay, Australia is one of several locations thought to be linked to the transmission of E03a Cherry Ripe, a sister station to E03 The Lincolnshire Poacher.
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I really liked the clues for SHOAL, TUNICS, STATUE and WHAMMY, among others, and the clue for MIT made me look up "Mystery Hunt," which sounds awesome.
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Were it to build a military base there, as it has done in the nearby Spratly Islands, Scarborough Shoal would be as a dagger aimed at Manila.
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The Coast Guard eventually coaxed them off the 136-year-old American Shoal Lighthouse and has detained them for over a month on a Coast Guard cutter.
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Several tense standoffs have already threatened to throw the area into conflict, including in 2012 when the Philippine Navy intercepted several Chinese fishermen off the Scarborough Shoal.
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It happened quietly last week when China suddenly lifted its four-year blockade of the Scarborough Shoal, allowing Filipino fishermen to freely access the shoal's plentiful waters.
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A U.S. Navy destroyer sailed within 12 miles of the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, claimed by the Chinese government, Monday, Reuters first reported.
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"China will hold on to that shoal, for sure, and deny our fishermen access," said a senior navy commander who has previously joined diplomatic missions to China.
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Since 2012, China has deployed its coastguard to block the shoal from Filipinos, despite being located inside the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone of the Philippines.
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Or China might start building on the Scarborough Shoal, which it wrested from the Philippines in 2012 after a stand-off between the two countries' patrol boats.
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The case was brought by the Philippines in 2013, after China grabbed control of a reef, called Scarborough Shoal, about 20133 miles (350km) north-west of Manila.
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The case was brought by the Philippines in 2013, after China had grabbed control of a reef, called Scarborough Shoal, about 220 miles north-west of Manila.
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Mr. Aquino said he had no indication that China had imminent plans to develop the reef, known as Scarborough Shoal, which sits 185 nautical miles from Manila.
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If China were to succeed in making Scarborough Shoal a strategic outpost, it would be a major coup, given its proximity to American and Philippine military forces.
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Mr. Duterte, legal victory in hand, decided to give China a face-saving opportunity to leave Scarborough Shoal while blasting Washington, a longtime ally of the Philippines.
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Retaliatory measures — further island-building at Scarborough Shoal, for instance, or declaring an air defense zone over large portions of the South China Sea — would be risky.
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Now, China is said to be considering plans to build Scarborough Shoal into an island, too, an effort that would be its most ambitious and provocative yet.
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It accused China of violating international law by interfering with fishing, endangering ships and failing to protect the marine environment at the reef, known as Scarborough Shoal.
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American military officials fear that China plans to build a bigger military base on Scarborough Shoal, which lies about 140 miles from the coast of the Philippines.
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The government's enthusiasm for building on Scarborough Shoal was emboldened, he said, by the ease with which the three big artificial islands in the Spratlys were completed.
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Shoal Lake 22, a community of about 20153 people that sits along the border of Ontario and Manitoba, has been without clean drinking water for two decades.
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Shoal Lake 40, a community of about 250 people that sits along the border of Ontario and Manitoba, has been without clean drinking water for two decades.
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"It looks like an actual fish shoal," said Dr. Mizumoto, who studies animal behavior and presented his research in Proceedings of the Royal Society B on Wednesday.
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Indeed, this place has been less fiercely contested than others — for example, the Scarborough Shoal, which has been the site of clashes between Chinese and Philippine vessels.
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The year before she took up her post as national security adviser, China took a chunk out of a neighbor, seizing strategic Scarborough Shoal from the Philippines.
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The case, brought by the Philippines in 2013, hinged on the legal status of reefs, rocks and artificial islands in the Scarborough Shoal and Spratly Island group.
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China was until recently overseeing a blockade of the shoal some 124 miles off the Philippines coast, chasing away Filipino fishermen and sometimes blasting them with water cannon.
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Chinese coast guard ships have closely guarded the shoal since then, and both governments have suspected the other of planning construction to cement their claims to the area.
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A dispute over the shoal, 124 nautical miles northwest of the Philippines mainland was one of Manila's main reasons for bringing international legal action against China in 2013.
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Although the shoal is merely a few rocks poking above the sea, it is important to the Philippines because of its tranquil waters and rich stocks of fish.
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A Chinese presence on the shoal is seen as the final point on a "strategic triangle" that would allow China to truly control the dispute waters, says Zhang.
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However, just days after Duterte visited China and heralded a new era of ties, Filipinos returned to fish at the periphery of the shoal, unimpeded by Chinese vessels.
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And this month an American admiral has reported Chinese activity at Scarborough Shoal, north of the Spratlys, that suggests it might be the "next possible area of reclamation".
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Maybe it will be brought from a prehistoric beach by convoys of trucks, or from a Bahamian shoal, or maybe the counties will fall into another sand war.
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Filipino fishermen, who had been chased away from their traditional fishing grounds at the shoal after the Chinese arrived in 2012, can fish there once again, he said.
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The Philippines initiated the case in 2013 after China seized Scarborough Shoal, an atoll that the Philippines administered and that was a favorite fishing ground for Filipino fishermen.
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It could also begin transforming the reef at the center of the dispute, Scarborough Shoal, into a military outpost, risking a clash with the Philippines, an American ally.
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Just 150 miles from the Philippine coast and Subic Bay, where the United States stations fighter jets and naval vessels, the shoal is in a particularly strategic place.
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Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, an isolated island reserve that sits on the Ontario-Manitoba border, has been on a boil water advisory for close to 20 years.
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One Shoal Lake 240 elder was lifted and carried from his stationary chair to meet Trudeau on the first such visit of its kind for the prime minister.
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One Shoal Lake 40 elder was lifted and carried from his stationary chair to meet Trudeau on the first such visit of its kind for the prime minister.
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Shoal Lake 40 was cut off from the mainland a century ago to make room for the canal that provides drinking water for the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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I mean, we have parliaments, obstinacies, caravans and destructions; there is a petition to rename a "shoal" of squids to a "squad," but it's not making many waves.
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The "Scarborough Shoal push", if successful, would give hope that the disputes within the South China Sea may be diplomatically resolved, he added, speaking at the same forum.
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China has sought to underscore its sovereignty over the shoal, and in public has been less specific about how arrangements allowing Philippine fishermen to operate there will work.
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President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines said he plans to declare part of the Scarborough Shoal a marine sanctuary, another sign of growing rapprochement between Beijing and Manila.
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The 317 megawatt (MW) capacity Sheringham Shoal has been operational since 2012 and is owned by Statoil, Statkraft and the wind fund managed by Green Investment Group Management Limited.
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They somehow managed (even they don't quite understand how the fish do it!) to get 200 guppies to decide which shoal they wanted to be in according to size.
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Both countries lay claim to the resource-rich Scarborough Shoal, known in China as Huangyan Island, as well as the Spratly Islands, known in China as the NanSha Islands.
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The situation is far from certain at the shoal, which the arbitral ruling said should be shared by all claimants, and no one country had sovereign rights to it.
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Control of Scarborough Shoal, and a friendly government in Manila, would make it easier for Chinese nuclear submarines to slip into the Pacific Ocean within missile range of America.
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The ruling made clear the Scarborough Shoal was under the jurisdiction of no country and claimants China, the Philippines and Vietnam were entitled to exploit its plentiful fish stocks.
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America has to date deterred China from developing the Scarborough Shoal, a disputed reef off the Philippines, the fortification of which would be a "last piece of the puzzle".
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Xi did not say whether he agreed to Duterte's plan in the Scarborough Shoal, according to the statement from Esperon and other Philippine Cabinet officials present at the meeting.
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The destroyers Stethem, Spruance and Momsen have been patrolling near Chinese-held features in the Spratlys archipelago and the Scarborough Shoal, which is near the Philippines, the officials said.
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That eventually resulted in China's 2012 exclusion of all Philippine fishing and law enforcement activities from the shoal, which motivated Manila to seek arbitration from The Hague international court.
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The team ran nearly 1,000 computer simulations to predict the likeliest next position of the shoal, accounting for factors like variations in water flow, spatial distribution, and so on.
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Philippine Supreme Court senior associate justice Antonio Carpio warned that Duterte could be impeached if he gives up the country's sovereignty over the Scarborough Shoal, according to Philippine media.
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Mr. Aquino said he had not seen any recent intelligence reflecting a Chinese buildup at the shoal, which China effectively took control of in 2012, after a long standoff.
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The Breaker Shoal Shipwreck in the Philippines from about the same time period had a cargo that is amazingly similar to that of the Java Sea Shipwreck, Niziolek said.
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Though Duterte has persuaded China to end the blockade and let fishermen operate around the shoal, China has continued to fortify some of its artificial islands with military hardware.
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"Happy to confirm that Filipino fishermen are able to fish anew in Scarborough Shoal," said Harry Roque, a Philippine congressman who traveled with Mr. Duterte to Beijing last week.
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Benigno S. Aquino III, who took a tougher line with China as the Philippine president, filed a challenge in 2013 over the shoal with a tribunal in The Hague.
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The Dudgeon farm was the third offshore wind asset Statkraft sold from this year, after divesting from the Triton Knoll project and the Sheringham Shoal wind farm offshore Britain.
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Beijing, for example, could agree not to use landfill to build up the Scarborough Shoal, part of the contested Spratly Islands, over which the Philippines lost control to China.
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Scarborough Shoal has been the center of attention as one of the most desirable places in the South China Sea for the Chinese to convert into an artificial island.
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In the heated arena of South China Sea politics in China, the shoal — known as Huangyan Island here — has become a touchstone for both hawks and more moderate voices.
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After all, in 2012, the Chinese Coast Guard had muscled the Philippines off of Scarborough Shoal, a reef just 20123 nautical miles from the main Philippine island of Luzon.
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Herring — a small saltwater fish most commonly served pickled — use farts to communicate with one another, so that they can stay close in a shoal, even in the dark.
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American officials have long viewed doing so as something of a red line, and have cautioned Chinese counterparts that any building on the shoal would be viewed as provocative.
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For Joy Topaz, a fish vendor in a Masinloc shanty town, the most pressing issue is to negotiate a deal to get Filipino fishermen back to the Scarborough Shoal.
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An international court in The Hague ruled last year in the Philippines' favor, saying that China had been interfering with the Philippines' fishing and maritime rights in the shoal.
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Duterte's comments came amid concern in the Philippines that China would build several environmental monitoring stations in disputed waters, including on the Scarborough Shoal 124 miles off the Philippine coast.
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It released photographs and a map showing what it said was an increased number of Chinese vessels near the disputed Scarborough Shoal, which China seized after a standoff in 2012.
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Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, a northern community on a manmade island at the border of Manitoba and Ontario, has essentially existed without clean drinking water for nearly two decades.
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Indeed, Jolla's indie vision for Sailfish OS is to support a whole shoal of differently branded, regionally flavored and independently minded (non-Google-led) ecosystems all swimming around in parallel.
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The Scarborough Shoal encompasses a group of tiny islands, atolls and reefs just 130 miles off the Philippines' main island of Luzon, and well within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone.
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The last time coastguards of the two countries were both at the shoal was in June 2012, during a protracted face-off sparked by Philippine attempts to arrest Chinese fishermen.
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Now, the big question is whether Duterte will use the state visit to bargain away his country's assertion of sovereignty in the Scarborough Shoal in return for greater mainland investment.
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A possibility presented in the new study is that a sand dune collapsed onto the shoal in shallow waters—a process that could've locked the fish into place within seconds.
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"According to the relevant bodies in China, the reports you mention that touch upon building environmental monitoring stations on Scarborough Shoal are mistaken, these things are not true," she added.
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The Philippine news channel ABS-CBN reported on Thursday that Filipino fishermen were still being blocked from fishing near Scarborough Shoal, according to a news crew that visited the area.
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The United States, which now has access to five military bases in the Philippines, recently flew a Navy plane over the shoal in a demonstration to China of American concerns.
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Clinton also expressed sympathy for the Philippines in its clash with China over one of the disputed territories, Scarborough Shoal — a dispute that Mr. Duterte now seems ready to forget.
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Duterte during his visit persuaded the Chinese to let Philippine fishermen operate around a disputed shoal, before declaring his unhappiness with Washington over its criticism of his lethal antidrug campaign.
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The tribunal said China had violated international law by interfering with fishing, endangering ships of the Philippines and failing to protect the marine environment at the shoal, the tribunal said.
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The Chinese ambassador in Manila had been warned about the ships last week, but the envoy denied that Chinese vessels were in the vicinity of the shoal, Mr. Lorenzana said.
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Speaking in Beijing, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said the ship had entered waters near the shoal without China's permission, and the Chinese navy had warned it to leave.
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For instance, it could declare an air defense zone over the Spratley Islands, as it did in the East China Sea, or Chinese forces could begin reclamation of Scarborough Shoal.
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Asked about the incident, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Scarborough Shoal - known by Beijing as Huangyan Island - was Chinese territory which Philippine fishermen had been fishing around illegally.
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Since 2012, China had used its coastguard to block the waters around the shoal from Filipinos, but Chinese vessels reportedly left the region after Duterte's visit, allowing fishermen to return.
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"Duterte has faced massive backlash over his appeasement-sounding remarks over Benham Rise and Scarborough Shoal, so he has an incentive to make some symbolic muscle flexing," Mr. Heydarian said.
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The shoal is controlled by China, which claims most of the South China Sea, and Filipino fishermen have claimed they were harassed by the Chinese Coast Guard in traditional fishing waters.
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While the court last year largely rejected China's claims, new Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has sought to mend ties with Beijing and the situation around the shoal has largely calmed down.
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Philippine officials said fishermen could return, but confirmed no agreement had been reached when Duterte visited Beijing two weeks ago in search of investment, trade, and unimpeded access to the shoal.
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He called for a military response from America were China to begin building on the shoal—as it has on several other disputed reefs and islets in the South China Sea.
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After the adverse ruling from the tribunal, hardliners in China, especially in the military, were urging Mr Xi to hit back by, for example, building an air strip on Scarborough Shoal.
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China's coastguard was preventing Filipino boats from fishing around Scarborough Shoal, fishermen and officials said on Friday, and China's air force has released pictures showing bombers recently flying over the area.
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A soft Philippine stance on the Scarborough Shoal could also impact Duterte's alpha-male reputation at home, where he rode to power on a populist campaign that catered to nationalist sentiment.
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He said there had been no update on the situation since Friday, but a defense source told Reuters a surveillance plane had on Saturday seen four Chinese ships at the shoal.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday denied reports that China will begin preparatory work this year for an environmental monitoring station on disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
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Reuters reported at the time that the aircraft came within 1,000 feet (305 meters) of each other in the vicinity of the Scarborough Shoal, between the Philippines and the Chinese mainland.
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While the court last year largely rejected China's claims, new Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has sought to mend ties with Beijing and the situation around the shoal has largely calmed down.
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Last month, former Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay said the U.S. had dissuaded China from reclaiming Scarborough Shoal, which security analysts consider a red line that could escalate tension in the region.
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Trudeau spent Thursday in Shoal Lake 403, a reserve of around 250 people located along the Ontario and Manitoba border that has been on a boil water advisory for two decades.
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Trudeau spent Thursday in Shoal Lake 2100, a reserve of around 240 people located along the Ontario and Manitoba border that has been on a boil water advisory for two decades.
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On Sunday, Philippine security officials said that China had scaled down the number of ships at the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, allowing Filipino fishermen to resume fishing.
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This is what I experienced in our VICE colleagues' new VR documentary, Cut-Off, which follows Trudeau to Shoal Lake 40, a community of 250 people about 150 kilometres from Winnipeg.
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The Tour began the program in response to the controversy surrounding the 1990 P.G.A. Championship, which had been held at Shoal Creek, then an all-white country club outside Birmingham, Ala.
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Scientists say that is especially worrying because the shoal plays an important role as a site where countless fish and coral species can breed, helping to maintain the sea's extraordinary biodiversity.
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In the latest incident, Beijing on Saturday said the U.S. Navy trespassed when the USS Hopper, a guided missile destroyer, sailed within 22 kilometers of Scarborough Shoal earlier in the week.
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If they were to do likewise near the Scarborough Shoal -- within striking distance of the Philippines and US military bases -- this would almost certainly cross a red line for the United States.
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In July 2017, two customers at the Shoal Creek Tavern in Highland Village, Texas had to be airlifted to a nearby hospital with "major burns" after a mishap involving a flaming cocktail.
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Two U.S. officials confirmed that the USS Hopper had sailed within 12 nautical miles of Scarborough Shoal, a rocky outcrop and prime fishing spot due to its bountiful catches and calm waters.
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In a lawsuit filed soon afterward, the Miami-based Movimiento Democracia argued that climbing the 136-year-old, 109-foot-tall American Shoal Lighthouse was the same as landing on American soil.
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Three First Nations — Grassy Narrows, Shoal Lake 40 and Neskantaga — are in Geneva, Switzerland to address the UN's Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which is reviewing Canada's human rights record.
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He did not elaborate, but said he planned to visit China some time this year and would press his case for it to let Filipinos fish unimpeded at the disputed Scarborough Shoal.
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Philippines' Duterte to US: 'Do not make us your dogs' China and the Philippines recently struck an agreement on fishing rights to a disputed shoal in the hotly contested South China Sea.
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Most threatening to its neighbor the Philippines is China's current plan to install radar in the Scarborough Shoal, which constitutes a potential military projection into what is now an international fishing ground.
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The 403-year-old took advantage of benign early conditions to pick up five birdies on her outward half on a rain-softened Shoal Creek course and surge clear of the field.
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What Manila doesn't want to see is China build on Scarborough Shoal -- a small but strategic reef and fertile fishing ground 200 kilometers (130 miles) west from the Philippine island of Luzon.
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It would also sanction foreign financial bodies that "knowingly conduct or facilitate a significant financial transaction for sanctioned individuals and entities" if China steps up activity at Scarborough Shoal, among other actions.
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In 2012, China created the city of Sansha, based on Woody Island, to administer all its claimed territory in the region, including the Spratly Islands, Paracels, Macclesfield Bank and the Scarborough Shoal.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte expressed hope on Sunday that fishermen would be able to return to the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea in the next few days.
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Chinese scholars have talked about pulling out of UNCLOS, though that is unlikely, and of restarting construction works in Scarborough Shoal, which is something of a red line for the United States.
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MANILA — Chinese vessels have quietly abandoned the contested Scarborough Shoal, the Philippine government said Friday, apparently a concession by Beijing after a visit to China by President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines.
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Amid these crises, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a historic visit last week to Shoal Lake 40, an isolated First Nations reserve that has been without clean water for two decades.
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MANILA (Reuters) - By letting Philippine fishermen return to the disputed Scarborough Shoal, China is complying with an international arbitral ruling, just without acknowledging it, Manila's incoming ambassador to Beijing said on Tuesday.
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HONG KONG — Philippine officials said Monday that President Rodrigo Duterte planned to declare a marine sanctuary and no-fishing zone at a lagoon within Scarborough Shoal, a reef China seized in 2012.
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US naval officials believe China has plans to start reclamation and construction activities on Scarborough Shoal, which sits further north of the Spratlys within the Philippines claimed 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone.
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Relations suffered in 2012 after China dislodged the Philippine navy from the Scarborough Shoal, which is just over 200km from the Philippines proper, within its exclusive economic zone, and almost 900km from China.
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"We cannot stop China... there is nothing that we can do about that now," Yasay said, adding improving relations with Beijing had paid off because Filipino fishermen can now fish around Scarborough Shoal.
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"We should maintain the civilian nature so as not to escalate tensions," he said, reacting to some suggestions the Philippines deploy warships to Scarborough Shoal to assert Manila's claim on the rocky outcrop.
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He said the U.S. military had seen Chinese activity around Scarborough Shoal in the northern part of the Spratly archipelago, about 125 miles (200 km) west of the Philippine base of Subic Bay.
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Some predict that China will take advantage of what is left of Barack Obama's presidency to start building on the disputed Scarborough Shoal, from which Chinese ships dislodged the Philippine navy in 2012.
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In Subic Bay, less than 200 miles from a shoal claimed by the Philippines but occupied by China, a taxi driver, Pete Simpao, seemed perplexed when asked about the South China Sea dispute.
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Late last month, Philippine Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay said Chinese President Xi Jinping had pledged China would not build on the Scarborough Shoal, about 250km west of the Philippines' main island of Luzon.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Thursday accused China of breaking a U.S.-brokered deal between the two nations on the Scarborough Shoal, an uninhabited rocky outcrop in the South China Sea.
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Scarborough Shoal was at the center of a major dispute between the Philippines and China in 2012 after Chinese fishing vessels were found in the center of the lagoon, traditional Philippine fishing grounds.
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Richardson said the U.S. military had seen Chinese activity around Scarborough Shoal in the northern part of the Spratly archipelago, about 125 miles (200 km) west of the Philippine base of Subic Bay.
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Two hours later the South Korean came within a whisker of doing just that, falling at the fourth extra hole of a playoff after Ariya overcame a back-nine collapse at Shoal Creek.
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The only problem is, as was the case under the Harper government, details on how this will actually be done are scarce—and Trudeau's remarks at Shoal Lake 40 didn't provide any more clarity.
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In what appeared to be an olive branch to the Philippines, China's coastguard in October started allowing Filipino fishermen to return and fish at the strategic Scarborough Shoal, which Beijing seized in June 2012.
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Her son, Alexander Vergara Lopez, and the other 23 Cubans who climbed the American Shoal Lighthouse last month are now aboard a Coast Guard cutter, waiting for a federal judge to decide their fate.
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"We will make sure that there will be no further actions that will heighten the tensions between the two countries, particularly in the Scarborough Shoal," Yasay said, referring to another group of disputed islets.
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For the past four years—ever since Philippine naval inspectors tried to arrest some Chinese fishermen for illegally harvesting endangered species—Chinese ships have blocked Filipino fishermen from plying their trade near Scarborough Shoal.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' defence ministry on Wednesday said it believed an increased presence of Chinese vessels at the disputed Scarborough Shoal was a precursor for building man-made structures and was "gravely concerned".
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Many of the latest conflicts involve maritime disputes with China over Chinese territorial claims and military expansion into geographical realms such as the Paracels, the Spratly Islands and the Scarborough Shoal near the Philippines.
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Philippine security officials on Sunday said China had scaled down its maritime presence at the shoal since President Rodrigo Duterte's return from a visit to Beijing aimed at patching-up ties and courting investment.
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Ariya became the first player from Thailand to win the championship when she parred the fourth extra hole at Shoal Creek after earlier finishing tied with Kim at 11-under-par 277 in regulation.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi did not answer directly, when Reuters asked on Tuesday whether China would offer any concessions to the Philippines on the South China Sea, including fishing rights around Scarborough Shoal.
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Manila also contests China's effective control of the Scarborough Shoal, a scattering of rocks off the coast of the Philippines' Luzon island, seeking a ruling that would show it sits within the Philippines' EEZ.
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On Thursday, the two sides agreed to establish a joint coast guard committee on maritime cooperation, a potentially significant step because Chinese Coast Guard vessels have been keeping Philippine fishing boats from Scarborough Shoal.
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Knowing what consumers will want in future is a dream for businesses, especially in an environment where smaller brands are attacking larger companies "like a shoal of piranhas," according to a senior PepsiCo executive.
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The Philippines said on Wednesday it was "gravely concerned" that Chinese boats were preparing to build structures at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, shattering an appearance of cordiality at the summit.
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In 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague rejected China's extensive claims in the South China and ruled that Scarborough Shoal was a traditional fishing ground of Filipino, Chinese and Vietnamese fishermen.
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Some analysts have suggested that he might respond to a ruling against China by moving even more aggressively in the South China Sea and taking steps to transform Scarborough Shoal into an artificial island.
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In its ruling, the tribunal said that both Philippine and Chinese fishermen had traditional fishing rights at the shoal, and that China had interfered with those rights by blocking access for the Philippine fishermen.
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American officials had been waiting to see what China would do around Scarborough Shoal after the summit meeting, assuming that the Chinese would not act sooner in the interest of preserving a seamless conference.
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In late August, one of the Philippines' largest warships, a cast-off cutter from the United States Coast Guard, ran aground on Half Moon Shoal, an unoccupied maritime feature not far from Mischief Reef.
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For the fishermen who make up a third of Infanta's 30,000 people, the 16-hour trip to the prized shoal, where they fish for 10 days at a time, are necessary but perilous journeys.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines said on Monday it has asked Beijing to stop the Chinese coast guard from taking the catch of Filipino fishermen in the disputed Scarborough Shoal, describing such actions as unacceptable.
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This week, Xiao Jie, the mayor of what China calls Sansha City, said China planned to begin preparatory work this year to build environmental monitoring stations on a number of islands, including Scarborough Shoal.
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It would also put sanctions on foreign financial bodies that "knowingly conduct or facilitate a significant financial transaction for sanctioned individuals and entities" if China steps up activity at Scarborough Shoal, among other actions.
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But he did not appear to refer to Scarborough Shoal, a major disputed reef in the South China Sea north of the Spratlys that has been a flash point between the Philippines and China.
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Last year, Shoal Lake 40 received funding from local, provincial, and federal governments to begin constructing a permanent road to the reserve, but still requires funding in order to build a water treatment plant.
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In May, a U.S. warship sailed near the disputed Scarborough Shoal claimed by China in the South China Sea, angering Beijing at a time of tension over trade between the world's two biggest economies.
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MANILA, Philippines – Officials say the Philippine government has quietly protested after Chinese ships deployed a helicopter that flew close to a Philippine navy boat carrying supplies to Filipino marines at a disputed shoal this month.
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The Philippines plans to file a strong protest against China after it announced preparatory work for an environmental monitoring station on a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, a cabinet minister said on Tuesday.
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Though located within the Philippines' 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone, an international tribunal in 2016 ruled that the Scarborough Shoal is a traditional fishing ground that no one country has sole rights to exploit.
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MANILA (Reuters) - China's coastguard rescued two Filipino fishermen from a capsized boat near a disputed South China Sea shoal on Friday, underlining the fast thawing of ties between two countries long at odds over sovereignty.
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" Most recently, Trudeau told VICE during a documentary shoot at First Nations community Shoal Lake 40 that closing the digital divide is a priority, and the Liberal government "starting to work right now on it.
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Asked whether China was currently allowing Philippines fishermen to fish around Scarborough Shoal, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said the decision of the court would have no effect on China's South China Sea policy.
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A new study published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B showcases a stunning new fossil in which one such rapid burial locked an entire school of fish, or a shoal, in place.
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Earlier this month, Xiao Jie, the mayor of what China calls Sansha City, said China planned to begin preparatory work this year to build environmental monitoring stations on a number of islands, including Scarborough Shoal.
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She could also make it consecutive Australian major winners at Shoal Creek following Wayne Grady's victory at the 1990 PGA Championship and was delighted to see her name atop the leaderboard for the entire round.
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The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the aircraft came within 1,000 feet (305 meters) of each other on Wednesday in the vicinity of the Scarborough Shoal, between the Philippines and the Chinese mainland.
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Aguirre said the Philippines would renew its strong ties with Washington in the face of China's aggressive action in the shoal, which is 124 nautical miles from nearest coast of the main island of Luzon.
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Last month, despite the new-found bonhomie, the Philippines said at a summit of Asian nations in Laos that it was "gravely concerned" about Chinese boats preparing to build structures at the disputed Scarborough Shoal.
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But that would not necessarily resolve the future of Scarborough Shoal, he said, because China would never want to yield what it considers its sovereign right to the rocks so close to the Philippine coast.
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These northern neighborhoods, which are gaining in popularity, are dotted with small beaches and marinas, and contain a mix of older bungalows and newer houses and condominiums, including the 123-unit Dunes at Shoal Harbor.
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U.S. naval officials believe China has plans to start reclamation and construction activities on Scarborough Shoal, which sits further north of the Spratlys within the Philippines-claimed 200-nautical-mile (370-km) exclusive economic zone.
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As they ascend in a spiral formation, they work as a group to blow bubbles in a pattern that forms a kind of shrinking vortex around the shoal, which forces the prey toward the surface.
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But if China proceeds with building military facilities in the Scarborough Shoal, or continues its harassment of Filipino fishermen and troops in the South China Sea, it is doubtful that Duterte can mend ties with Beijing.
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"If China finishes land reclamation at Scarborough Shoal, it can install radar and other facilities for 24-hour monitoring of the US Basa air force base on Pampanga," Macau-based military expert Antony Wong Dong said.
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The Shoal Creek course was closed for play on Tuesday after receiving more than two inches of rain (50 mm) from subtropical storm Alberto overnight and into Tuesday, turning parts of it into a sloppy bog.
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China claims most of the waters through which about $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year, and in 2012 it seized the disputed Scarborough Shoal and denied Philippine fishermen access to its fishing grounds.
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In 2012, after the Philippine navy tried to arrest some Chinese fishermen near Scarborough Shoal, which both China and the Philippines claim, Chinese vessels have patrolled the surrounding waters and at times turned away Philippine fishermen.
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The Permanent Court of Arbitration found China had unlawfully restricted fishing access around the Scarborough Shoal, a small but strategic reef and fertile fishing ground 130 miles (200 kilometers) west from the Philippine island of Luzon.
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China five years ago started blockading the Scarborough Shoal, a rocky outcrop within the Philippines' 200 mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ), and the United States has warned Beijing against carrying out the land reclamation work there.
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Philippine security expert Rommel Banlaoi said the plan was to promote sustainable fishing rather than give China a graceful way out, adding that China had already softened its position on the Scarborough Shoal, without acknowledging so.
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Hours before the meeting, however, the Philippines' defense ministry released photographs and a map showing what it said was an increased number of Chinese vessels near Scarborough Shoal, which China seized after a standoff in 2012.
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Chinese forces wrested control of Scarborough Shoal in the Spratlys from the Philippines after an extended standoff four years ago, a move that President Benigno S. Aquino III later compared to Nazi Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia.
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The new president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, said on Friday in Davao City that it was "unsettling" to read his government's intelligence reports that a lot of Chinese ships were in the Scarborough Shoal area.
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In an important ruling in July, an international tribunal in The Hague decided against China, saying that the Scarborough Shoal was entitled only to a 12-mile territorial zone, not 200 miles as the Chinese assert.
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The Norwegian company says it has a capacity to supply around a quarter of Britain's peak gas demand, and its Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon offshore wind farms are able to supply power to 630,000 British households.
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" Greg Poling, a South China Sea expert at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, said a Chinese pullout from Scarborough Shoal would be "a big deal, if it's true and if it's sustained.
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The comment from Thailand, which has historically maintained a neutral stance on the South China Sea, came hours after the Philippines released pictures showing what it said were Chinese boats near a disputed shoal in the sea.
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Reuters journalists visited the coral atoll this month and saw a substantially larger Chinese coastguard and fishing presence than usual, although it was allowing Filipinos to fish inside the shoal for the first time since the blockade.
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Hermogenes Esperon said Chinese ships were still present but had not blocked Filipino boats at the Scarborough shoal, a rocky outcrop central to an international arbitration case, since President Rodrigo Duterte's visit to Beijing two weeks ago.
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China had repelled fishermen since seizing the Scarborough Shoal in 2012, but Filipino boats returned from the area at the weekend with tonnes of fish, broadcaster GMA reported, showing images of smiling crew and a large catch.
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The near-pass of the Scarborough Shoal by the bombers, which China took from the Philippines in 2012, came days after U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis accused Beijing of "intimidation and coercion" in the South China Sea.
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MANILA, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Chinese ships are no longer at the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea and Filipino boats can resume fishing activities following a "welcome development", the Philippines defence minister said on Friday.
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The New York Times reported last week that a U.S. Pacific Command request in March to sail near the disputed Scarborough Shoal, a prime fishing ground that China seized in 2012, was rejected by top Pentagon officials.
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China's blockade of Scarborough Shoal, a prime fishing spot, prompted the previous Philippine government to file a legal case in 2013 at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague, infuriating Beijing, which refused to take part.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines plans to file a strong protest against China after it announced preparatory work for an environmental monitoring station on a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, a Cabinet minister said on Tuesday.
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Both sides have pledged to pursue warmer ties, but it remains unclear how they plan to navigate the issues of the ruling, China's man-made islands and its blocking of Filipino fishermen at the disputed Scarborough Shoal.
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Those researchers divided 192 zebrafish into shoals of four fish each, and each shoal was exposed to water only, taurine only, or a combination of taurine and alcohol at a concentration that "would induce moderate human intoxication".
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That dispute led to deteriorating relations under the previous Philippines administration, which filed a claim against China with the United Nations maritime tribunal over the Scarborough Shoal, a reef claimed by both nations and occupied by China.
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Advisers to the president say one potential deal would be to let China maintain control of Scarborough Shoal if it made concessions such as restoring access to Filipino fishermen and investing in infrastructure development in the Philippines.
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Reporter's Notebook SCARBOROUGH SHOAL, South China Sea — We could see the glistening turquoise waters in the distance, a haven where deep-sea waves soften and, fishermen say, the grouper and snapper could feed a village for eternity.
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VIENTIANE (Reuters) - The Philippines expressed "grave concern" on Sunday and demanded an explanation from China's ambassador over what it said was an increasing number of Chinese boats near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
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Beijing seized control of Scarborough Shoal, near the main Philippine island of Luzon, in June 2012, following a three-month standoff after a Philippine Navy vessel tried to arrest Chinese fishermen found illegally hauling giant clams there.
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In March, Washington warned that China might next reclaim the Scarborough Shoal, after Beijing sent survey ships to the area, although a Philippine military aircraft despatched to check the reports did not find a survey ship there.
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During the handover ceremony, Lorenzana and Fukuda watched the planes land at a naval base guarding the mouth of Manila Bay, hundreds of miles southeast of the disputed Scarborough Shoal now patrolled by Chinese coast guard ships.
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In 2015, Google Maps found itself in a similar scandal when it put a Chinese name on a shoal in the South China Sea, which is the subject of a territorial dispute between China and the Philippines.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Chinese ships are no longer at the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea and Philippine boats can resume fishing, the Philippine defence minister said on Friday, calling the Chinese departure a "welcome development".
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The Scarborough Shoal is located within the Philippines' 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone but an international tribunal in 2016 ruled that it is a traditional fishing ground that no one country has sole rights to exploit.
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First, US military leaders must provide much-needed clarity, signaling precisely what countermeasures China can expect should Chinese officials opt to declare an ADIZ in the South China Sea, militarize near the Scarborough Shoal, or otherwise escalate militarily.
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MANILA, Philippines – Two Philippine officials say China&aposs coast guard has continued to seize the catches of Filipino fishermen at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, despite a protest by the Philippines following an earlier incident.
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Duterte has picked Ramos as his point-man for patching up ties with China, which were tested again last week when the Philippines published images of what it said were new Chinese vessels at the disputed Scarborough Shoal.
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While the tribunal did conclude that Beijing had trampled on the territorial rights of the Philippines, it also suggested that some disputed areas such as Scarborough Shoal could be shared, for example when it came to fishing rights.
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The strange-science angle that briefly suggests a new spin on The Ring, with Gabriel supposedly investigating the afterlife in the most haphazard, disorganized, irresponsible way possible, winds up being one of an entire shoal of red herrings.
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When throngs of refugees left the island in 1980, according to the site, the Coast Guard began using the American Shoal Lighthouse as a lookout tower as the number of calls to respond to rafters in distress skyrocketed.
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The call to "set aside" the ruling of an international tribunal against China's trespass on the Philippines' exclusive economic zones around Scarborough Shoal and the Spratlys is no surrender, just a choice not to discuss it for now.
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China's foreign ministry said USS Hopper missile destroyer came within 12 nautical miles off Huangyan island, better known as the Scarborough Shoal and subject to a rival claim by the Philippines, a historic ally of the United States.
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With a permanent presence of large coastguard vessels, China blockaded the Scarborough Shoal for more than four years but ended that in October 2016 at the request of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who said Filipino fishermen were suffering.
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Manila wanted to enforce the points of the complex ruling step-by-step but as a priority had asked China to let its fishermen go to the contested Scarborough Shoal without being harassed by its coastguard, Yasay said.
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Jingoism sells well in the Philippines (as it does in China), and in the run-up to his election Mr Duterte threatened to jump on a jet ski and defend the Philippines' claim to Scarborough Shoal single-handedly.
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Townshend said that China could begin construction work on Scarborough Shoal -- an outcrop it currently controls 100 miles from the Philippines and 500 miles from China -- or set up an air defense zone over the South China Sea.
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The ministry took the decision to release photographs taken on Saturday of what it said were more vessels than normal because China's ambassador had denied any new activity at the shoal, defence ministry spokesman, Arsenio Andolong, told reporters.
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The dispute has become more significant since the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled on July 12 that no one country had sovereign rights over activity in the Scarborough Shoal, a traditional fishing ground for Chinese, Filipino and Vietnamese.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will issue an executive order declaring part of the disputed Scarborough Shoal a marine sanctuary off-limits to all fishermen, a move his office said was supported by Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
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"It will be a return to the Arroyo days," the second Chinese source said, referring to the administration of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (2001-2010), when fishermen from both countries had access to waters near Scarborough Shoal.
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MANILA (Reuters) - China's coastguard has prevented Filipino boats from fishing around the hotly contested Scarborough Shoal, Philippine officials said on Friday, after Beijing kept a promise to ignore a court ruling voiding its vast South China Sea claims.
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China's air force also said on its microblog it had recently carried out "normal battle patrols" over the South China Sea involving bombers, spy planes and flying tankers, including over Scarborough Shoal, which is disputed with the Philippines.
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Both Reed Bank and Scarborough Shoal lie in the Philippines' 200-mile exclusive economic zone, Aquino said, calling China's actions a violation of a 2002 pact on the South China Sea between China and ten Southeast Asian nations.
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"China has made a commitment that it will not reclaim the shoal, preserving it as a marine sanctuary, so it is not allowing even Chinese fishermen to fish inside the lagoon," he said, referring to what was discussed.
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The departure of the Chinese coast guard ships comes after President Rodrigo Duterte's high-profile visit to Beijing and his repeated requests for China to end its blockade of the shoal, a tranquil lagoon rich in fish stocks.
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China will start reclamation at the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea later this year and may add an airstrip to extend its air force's reach over the contested waters, a military source and mainland maritime experts say.
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That is why it has not yet attempted to build the kind of military facilities on Scarborough Shoal that it has constructed on other reefs in the South China Sea and that many Western analysts had assumed were imminent.
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So the Chinese idea of a "package deal" in which Chinese sovereignty over the Scarborough Shoal is acknowledged in return for fishing rights which Filipinos had anyway long enjoyed will be greeted as an insult back in the Philippines.
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Satellite imagery taken on Saturday by the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative and The Center for Strategic and International Studies, however, showed fishermen were not entering the shoal itself and were working on its periphery, with China's coastguard still present.
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Mixing a long game of raw power with a short game of delicate precision, she peppered the pins with her approach shots and putted impressively to notch five birdies and one bogey on the front nine at Shoal Creek.
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MANILA (Reuters) - China has scaled down its presence at a disputed South China Sea shoal but has not interfered with Filipino fishermen, the Philippine president's security adviser said on Sunday, after the administration had said China had withdrawn completely.
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"Let us just wait for a few more days, maybe we could return to Scarborough Shoal," Duterte said in a speech in Tuguegarao City, north of the capital, where he helped deliver aid to victims of a recent typhoon.
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The tribunal's July ruling in favor of the Philippines, which China refuses to acknowledge, declared no one country had sovereign rights over the shoal, and as a traditional fishing ground, Chinese, Philippine and Vietnamese were entitled to access it.
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Beijing's harassment of a survey ship of an Anglo-Filipino consortium in the Reed Bank in 2011 and its control of Scarborough Shoal in 2012 were among the reasons Manila filed the arbitration case, which China refuses to recognize.
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Further escalation could be likely if China does more than ignore the ruling, and starts building on yet another contested shoal, or declares an Air Defence Identification Zone over a sea it seems to regard as a Chinese lake.
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There has been speculation that Beijing might respond to the decision by building an artificial island at the reef, Scarborough Shoal, a move that could set off a conflict with the Philippines and its treaty ally, the United States.
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A Philippines air force plane flew over the rocky outcrop on Saturday and spotted more boats than usual in a flotilla China has maintained since seizing the shoal after a tense standoff in 2012, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said.
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Duterte said earlier in the day he trusted China would not build anything on one of the disputed areas, Scarborough Shoal, because he was given its "word of honor" and Beijing would not want to jeopardize a new friendship.
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Chinese officials publicized the latest U.S. "freedom of navigation patrol", protesting the deployment last week of the destroyer USS Hopper to within 12 nautical miles of Scarborough Shoal, an atoll west of the Philippines which Beijing disputes with Manila.
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But The New York Times reported last week that top Pentagon officials recently turned down a request for an American warship to sail within 12 nautical miles of Scarborough Shoal, a disputed reef claimed by the Philippines and China.
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At a cabinet meeting next week, Mr. Duterte will hear a report from the Philippine Defense Ministry on whether to continue to allow the United States access to the military bases, including one at Palawan, close to Scarborough Shoal.
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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine foreign secretary says China has been notified of "red lines," or actions Manila would find unacceptable, in the South China Sea, including construction activities on a disputed shoal and extraction of oil and gas in disputed waters.
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His was one of the first boats to gamble on the big catches on offer in and around the disputed Scarborough Shoal since Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte made surprise overtures towards China, which sees the area as its sovereign territory.
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The aid involves equipment to allow Filipino ships and aircraft to better track Chinese military activity, including around the Scarborough Shoal, which is claimed by both China and the Philippines and lies around 130 miles from the Philippines' capital of Manila.
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"A joint fishing agreement in the Scarborough Shoal and a non-aggression pact in contested areas are some of the low-hanging fruit they can discuss while they put the issue of sovereignty and the arbitration award aside," he said.
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China "will continue to patrol and keep watch in waters around Huangyan Island and faithfully carry out its responsibilities and mission to safeguard the peace, tranquility and order in relevant waters", he said, using the Chinese name for Scarborough Shoal.
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Imbued with even greater self-belief after her ANA victory, and at age 31 entering what should be the peak years of her career, she is confident of a similarly strong performance at Shoal Creek, though is not promising victory.
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In fact, by sharing fishing access at the shoal, Beijing has surreptitiously brought itself in line with the Permanent Court of Arbitration's July 12 ruling on the South China Sea, even as it continues to reject the legality of the verdict.
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He reiterated he would not deviate from the court ruling but would seek a way out of a four-year deadlock at the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea and for China's coastguard to let Filipinos fish there unimpeded.
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After The Philippines closed U.S. bases in Subic Bay and Clart in 1991, Beijing began asserting its claim to the Scarborough Shoal, a territory in the South China Sea that is claimed by both Manila and Beijing, Bower pointed out.
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MANILA, July 15 (Reuters) - China's coastguard has prevented Filipino boats from fishing around the hotly contested Scarborough Shoal, Philippine officials said on Friday, after Beijing kept a promise to ignore a court ruling voiding its vast South China Sea claims.
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Statkraft aims to sell its 40 percent stake in 317 megawatt (MW) capacity Sheringham Shoal, which started in 2012, and to sell its 30 percent stake in 402 MW Dudgeon, which is expected to be commissioned by the end of 2017.
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Duterte confirmed on Saturday that the Scarborough Shoal was discussed during his four-day trip to China which was aimed at paving the way for what he calls a new commercial alliance as relations with longtime ally the United States deteriorate.
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Adding to tensions, the U.S. military said one of its warships sailed near the disputed Scarborough Shoal claimed by China in the South China Sea on Sunday, the latest in a series of "freedom of navigation operations" to anger Beijing.
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So far Beijing has handled this windfall cleverly, courting Duterte, supporting his anti-crime campaign, and refraining for now from island-building activity at Scarborough Shoal, the strategically located reef in the Spratly Islands that China has controlled since 2012.
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After visiting Beijing, Mr. Duterte traveled this week to Tokyo, where he announced he would revoke a military agreement with the United States that gives it access to five military bases in the Philippines, including one close to the disputed shoal.
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The Philippine Defense Department has photographs of four Chinese Coast Guard ships, and six other vessels, less than a mile from Scarborough Shoal, which is claimed by the Philippines and China, the defense minister, Delfin Lorenzana, said in an interview.
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China will begin preparatory work this year for an environmental monitoring station on Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, an official said, as two U.S. senators introduced a bill to impose sanctions on its activities in the disputed waterway.
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Shoal Lake 240 is a small First Nation community on a man-made island straddling the Ontario-Manitoba border that has been without clean drinking water for 240 years — and pushing for a permanent road to connect it to the mainland.
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His 403 minute meeting with Trudeau was one slice of unvarnished reality confronting the prime minister during a day-long visit to Shoal Lake 240 for Cut-Off, a special VICE Canada documentary that airs this Sunday on VICELAND in Canada.
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Shoal Lake 219 is a small First Nation community on a man-made island straddling the Ontario-Manitoba border that has been without clean drinking water for 20 years — and pushing for a permanent road to connect it to the mainland.
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His 90 minute meeting with Trudeau was one slice of unvarnished reality confronting the prime minister during a day-long visit to Shoal Lake 40 for Cut-Off, a special VICE Canada documentary that airs this Sunday on VICELAND in Canada.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said one of its warships sailed near the disputed Scarborough Shoal claimed by China in the South China Sea on Sunday, angering Beijing at a time of tense ties between the world's two biggest economies.
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The ambassador-designate said the Scarborough Shoal was discussed at length when he joined a team led by former Philippine president Fidel Ramos to meet "old friends" in Hong Kong in August with a view to breaking the ice with China.
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Philippine fishermen can access the shoal unimpeded for the first time in four years, Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said, capping off a startling turnaround in ties since his country rattled China by challenging its maritime claims at an international tribunal.
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Lorenzana did not explain the circumstances of the Chinese pullout from the shoal, the centrepiece of a case Manila filed in 2013 at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague that was decided in Manila's favour on July 12.
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China's foreign ministry said the USS Hopper destroyer came within 12 nautical miles of Huangyan island, which is better known as the Scarborough Shoal and is subject to a rival claim by the Philippines, a historic ally of the United States.
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