This is based on the premise that the Filipino population, especially the basic sectors, should have preferential use of and benefit from our land resources, and that our national interest, food security, cultural integrity, healthy environment and right to self determination be protected and upheld in any investment agreement entered into between the Philippine entity and its foreign counterpart involving the use of land in the country. On an even larger international stage, the Philippines is in a dangerous dispute with China over a small island off the Manila Coast.
The island is one of hundreds in the South China Sea that are claimed by more than one country; some are claimed by four! The sovereignty conflicts have simmered for decades, but the new assertiveness of China on the world stage, along with the same jump in commodity prices that is fuelling land grabs, have ratcheted up the urgency and the stakes. The marine region is an important fishery for many countries in Asia, and more importantly, is also reported to hold large, unexploited oil and gas reserves.
Who owns the Philippines? Share this twitter print pocket email facebook. Apr 25, Jim Harkness. There are no land titles that prove that a Tallano family owns the entire Philippine archipelago. According to Inquirer. A report about the TRO published by the Philippine Star in says that Office of the Solicitor General filed a petition with the CA assailing the validity of the Pasay court's ruling and the 3 fake titles that laid claim to the Philippines.
According to the Star, the petition explained that the "sheer area covered constitutes more than conclusive evidence regarding the spurious character of said titles Is there a mention of the name Tallano in any documents from the Spanish regime? From the Blair and Robertson collection of documents? Was there a historical document from Spanish period citing Maharlika as a place name in the Philippines?
Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson edited a 55 volume book of primary source Philippine history documents that covers to The words "Tallano" and "Maharlika" are not mentioned in the Blair and Robertson collection collection of documents in relation to the name of a place or kingdom. There are also no records that show that one family in the Philippines ruled over the other datus' kingdoms on the archipelago. In historian William Henry Scott's Looking for the Prehispanic Filipino , published in , he spoke about the 4 societal classes that existed during the pre-colonial era.
He said that the Spaniards thought datus were kings — until they realized that they did not have power over other kingdoms or other datus. The Marcos-approved history book Tadhana: The History of the Filipino People also says that by the time navigator Miguel Lopez de Legazpi set foot in the Philippines, the country's many groups were not unified: "A pan-Filipino state however had yet to emerge, although in response to grave, strange, if exciting forces indigenous sates of varying sizes had emerged.
If they were lawyered by Ferdinand Marcos and Jose W. Diokno, and if it was such a big case, was there a mention of the Tallanos in any of their writings, speeches, or credible biographies? Historian and Ateneo de Manila University history professor Ambeth Ocampo, who has Marcos' diaries, called the claim about the Tallano family "doubtful.
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