Two Chinese coast guard ships fired at a Philippine supply boat with water cannons on Saturday in the latest confrontation near a disputed South China Sea shoal, causing heavy damage to the wooden vessel, Philippine officials said. It was not immediately clear if the Philippine navy crew was injured, or whether their damaged boat, the […]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Chinese coast guard ships backed by a military helicopter attempted unsuccessfully to block two Philippine government vessels carrying scientists from reaching two sandbars in the disputed South China Sea, Philippine officials said Friday. Chinese coast guard personnel blew the horn on one of their ships for half an hour and repeatedly […]
Chinese coast guard ships backed by a military helicopter have attempted to block two Philippine government vessels carrying scientists from reaching two sandbars in the disputed South China Sea, Philippine officials said. Coast guard personnel blew the horn on one of their ships for half an hour and repeatedly transmitted radio warnings during the confrontation […]
By Jay Ereno and Eloisa Lopez MANILA (Reuters) – Eleven Filipino seafarers arrived in the Philippines on Tuesday nearly a week after they survived a Houthi missile attack off Yemen. They were crew members of the Barbados-flagged, Greek operated merchant ship True Confidence which the Houthis attacked last week, killing three sailors, including two Filipinos. […]
Chinese and Philippine coast guard vessels collided in the disputed South China Sea and four Filipino crew members were injured in a series of confrontations, as Southeast Asian leaders gathered for a summit where alarm over Beijing’s aggression at sea was expected to be raised. The Chinese coast guard ships and accompanying vessels blocked the […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Philippine Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo urged regional neighbors Monday to stand together more strongly in upholding the rule of law in the South China Sea, where China is forcefully pursuing territorial claims in conflict with other nations. Manalo spoke at a forum on maritime cooperation on the sidelines of a Southeast […]
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday said the Chinese navy’s presence in the South China Sea is “worrisome” but will not deter his country from defending its maritime territory and protecting its fishermen. The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) spotted the presence of Chinese navy vessels during a patrol mission by a […]
False posts in the Philippines repeatedly shared a fabricated report that claimed the archipelago’s fighter jets destroyed “300 Chinese fishing vessels” in the South China Sea in January 2024. While there have been tense standoffs between Manila and Beijing in the waterway recently, the incident described in posts did not happen, Philippine military officials told […]
The Philippines’ fisheries bureau said China is trying to “intentionally destroy” the Scarborough Shoal. The fish-rich atoll is hotly contested by China, but internationally recognized as Manila’s. The bureau on Saturday accused Chinese vessels of pumping cyanide into the shoal’s waters. The Philippines’ fishing bureau has accused Chinese fishing vessels of using cyanide to destroy the […]
SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China said on Saturday a small civilian vessel from the Philippines had “illegally placed itself on the beach” of an atoll in the South China Sea that both countries claim. The vessel, which landed on the Spratly Islands atoll on Friday, was there for supply purposes, the China Coast Guard posted on the […]
By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) – Former Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte‘s son urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to resign on Sunday, calling him lazy and uncompassionate in a deepening rift between the two politically powerful families. Marcos teamed up with Duterte’s daughter Sara to make her vice-president in their 2022 election win. But cracks in […]
Chinese state media accused the Philippines on Monday of repeatedly infringing on China’s territory in the South China Sea, spreading false information and colluding with extraterritorial forces to cause trouble. The Philippines has relied on US support to continually provoke China, with such “extremely dangerous” behaviour seriously harming regional peace and stability, China’s Communist Party […]