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Among the Ramon Magsaysay award winners this year was Tommy Koh. Born in 1937 and educated as a lawyer and a legal scholar, Mr. Koh chaired a pivotal negotiating committee of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. The award citation lauds him for “bridging a fundamental divide over seabed mining…
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Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow speaks to reporters in Bangkok after Thailand agreed to participate in a UN-backed conciliation process over a long-running maritime boundary dispute with Cambodia. | Photo Credit: Reuters “Thailand will appoint two conciliators and join a little-used United Nations (UN) arbitration process that Cambodia has invoked to help resolve a long-running…
Earlier this month, China declared new “baselines” around Scarborough Reef, a large coral atoll topped by a handful of rocks barely above sea level in the South China Sea. By doing so, China reaffirmed its sovereignty claim over what has become a global flashpoint in the disputed waters. This was a pre-calculated response to the…
