MANILA, Rabi'I 28, 1437, Jan 8, 2016, SPA -- Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Friday urged Southeast Asian neighbours to put pressure on China to agree on a binding code of conduct to ease tension in South China Sea following Chinese test flights to an island it has built, Reuters reported. Since 2010, China and the 10 members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have been discussing a set of rules for rival claimants in the South China Sea aimed at avoiding conflict. China claims almost the whole of the South China Sea, through which more than $5 trillion of world trade passes every year. Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines have rival claims to parts of the sea, which is believed to have rich deposits of oil and gas. --SPA 14:28 LOCAL TIME 11:28 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w