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Disturbing Revisionism: False Zheng He Claims on Palawan Spark Tensions between Philippines and China
Palawan Island is one of the largest and most prominent islands in the Philippines, located in the western part of the ...
Palawan Or Zheng He Island? China's Social Media Claim Stirs Outrage In Philippines
Chinese internet users have sparked controversy by claiming the Philippine province of Palawan as part of China, prompting ...
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Zheng He Island? NHCP disputes Chinese claims over Palawan
The National Historical Commission of the Philippines on Friday disputed recent claims made on Chinese social media platforms ...
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Chinese, Philippine social media users at odds over claim on Palawan
The Chinese government has not publicly staked a claim to Palawan. While the Chinese platforms are not official government ...
Philippines dismisses ‘absurd’ Chinese online claims about Palawan
A number of Chinese social media users claim Palawan was originally called Zheng He Island and that its name has been ...
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NHCP condemns Chinese distortion of Palawan’s history
The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) on Friday released a statement, condemning the online ...
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Palawan’s first inhabitant was Tabon Man, not Chinaman
“Tabon Man is the oldest confirmed modern human to have been found in the Philippines. His bones, evidence of existence of Homo sapiens between 37,000 and 47,000 years ago, were discovered in Tabon ...
Ancient Peoples of Philippines May Have Been First to Master Sailing
The ancient peoples of the Philippines and of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) may have built sophisticated boats and mastered seafaring tens of thousands of years ago—millennia before Magellan, Zhe ...