More countries back arbitral award on SCS

THE Philippines has informed fellow member-states in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) that there is a "growing list" of countries supporting the 2016 arbitral award in the South China Sea (SCS).

On July 12, 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands ruled in favor of the Philippines as it declared so-called China's nine-dash line national boundary has no legal basis to claim historic rights to almost all resources in the SCS.