After China said its coastguard helped to rescue two Filipino fishermen near the disputed Scarborough Shoal, the Philippines has alleged that the Chinese obstructed its own rescue attempt. Saturday’s incident was the latest involving the rival claimants in the South China Sea, after a string of confrontations in the past year including collisions, the use […]
Four Chinese vessels surrounded a Philippine navy boat as coastguard crew boarded during a tense stand-off in the disputed South China Sea on Monday, photos released by Chinese state media show. The rigid-hulled inflatable boat was on a supply mission to a grounded Philippine warship on the Second Thomas Shoal, which is part of the […]
The Greek coastguard has caused the deaths of dozens of migrants in the Mediterranean over a three-year period, witnesses say, including nine who were deliberately thrown into the water. The nine are among more than 40 people alleged to have died as a result of being forced out of Greek territorial waters, or taken back […]
The world is looking on with heightened caution as Beijing prepares to roll out new rules for coastguard operations amid rising tensions in the contested South China Sea. Taking effect on Saturday, the “administrative law enforcement procedures” give sweeping powers to the Chinese coastguard, including the authority to detain foreign ships suspected of illegally entering […]
The Italian coast guard rescued 22 people and recovered nine bodies after a smugglers’ boat capsized in a storm about 30 miles south of the island of Lampedusa, authorities said. Survivors indicated that the steel-bottom boat had departed from Sfax, Tunisia, overnight on Sunday carrying 46 people from Guinea, Burkina Faso, Mali and the Ivory […]
Two Chinese fishermen have drowned while being chased by Taiwan’s coastguard off the coast of Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago, the coastguard has said. The deaths are unusual despite the level of Chinese activity in the waters near Kinmen, which is closer to China than it is to Taiwan’s main island. China claims all of Taiwan as […]
By Karen Lema and Francesco Guarascio HANOI/MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines and Vietnam will agree to boost coastguard cooperation during a visit to Hanoi next week by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, officials said, a move that risks angering China. The two Southeast Asian countries have competing claims over swathes of the South China Sea, […]