It is bounded by the Gulf of Thailand of the South China Sea on the south and the Andaman Sea on the southwest. It borders on Burma to the west, Laos and Cambodia (Kampuchea) to the east, and Malaysia to the so
Joaquin Bernas, in his April 22 article in another newspaper, being one of the main framers of the 1987 Constitution, uses the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea as his basis to defend the Philippine claim. This, despite and after acknowledging the fact that, indeed, “t [...