THE long-delayed framework for the Code of Conduct (COC) in the South China Sea may be finally completed by the middle of the year, Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. said on Wednesday.

In a news conference, the Cabinet official said that the Philippines, as chairman of the Association of Southeast

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