PHILIPPINE Ambassador to China Chito Santa Romana on Monday bared that a Chinese survey ship may have collected maritime samples at Benham Rise.

“We know from a publication in China...the ship from [November 26, 2016] to [January 21, 2017] conducted research in the Western Pacific, but it did not specify where [the ship] went,” the envoy told a television interview.

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