Senator Bam Aquino, chair of the Senate Committee on Science and Technology, listens to maritime law experts as they shed light on local research programs being undertaken in Benham Rise and the West Philippine Sea, during a Senate hearing, Monday, February 26, 2018. “The government should already have a strong and clear plan for managing the Philippine Rise, especially now that China has slowly moved to claim it. Let us not give up its wealth as we have done with the West Philippine Sea,” Aquino said. (Photo by Cesar Tomambo)
