MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines’ coast guard (PCG) on Sunday accused China of “dangerous and blocking” maneuvers while its vessel patrolled near Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea this month. Manila’s coast guard said in a statement that on a nine-day patrol near the shoal by its 97-metre (318-foot) vessel BRP Teresa Magbanua, four […]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Combat exercises between the United States and the Philippines involving thousands of forces each year will not be affected by America’s focus on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, a U.S. general said Thursday. The Biden administration has been strengthening an arc of military alliances in the Indo-Pacific region […]
A landslide has left at least seven villagers dead and 48 others missing, including miners waiting in two buses for a ride home, in a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines, officials said. Army troops, police and volunteers rescued 31 villagers who were injured when the landslide hit the mountain village of Masara in the […]
A landslide has left at least six villagers dead and 46 others missing, including miners waiting in two buses for a ride home, in a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines, officials said. Army troops, police and volunteers rescued 31 villagers who were injured when the landslide hit the mountain village of Masara in the […]
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippine government is ready to use “authority and forces” against attempts to divide the nation, a security official said Sunday, after former President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to separate some southern islands from the rest of the archipelago. Duterte has called for the independence of his hometown Mindanao from the Philippines as […]
By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) – The alliance between Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte disintegrated this week when they accused each other of using drugs – a rift that could threaten Marcos‘s reform agenda and risk fuelling instability. The alliance between two of the Philippines’ most influential families that swept […]
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has attacked his successor, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, and raised the prospect of removing him from office. The outburst brings a long-rumoured split between the two into the open. In an expletive-laden speech in Davao, the former populist leader alleged that Mr Marcos’ legislative allies are plotting to amend the constitution […]
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines on Monday denied China had a “temporary special arrangement” with Manila to allow the delivery of supplies to Philippine troops occupying a disputed South China Sea reef, calling it “a figment of imagination”. The Chinese coastguard said on Saturday it had temporarily allowed the Philippines to provide food and water […]
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. struck back on Monday at his firebrand predecessor Rodrigo Duterte who called him a “drug addict”, saying the former leader’s fentanyl use could have affected his judgment. “I think it’s the fentanyl,” Marcos told reporters shortly before leaving for Vietnam in response to claims made by Duterte […]
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The Chinese coastguard said it had made “temporary special arrangements” to allow the Philippines to deliver supplies to troops at a grounded World War Two-era vessel at a disputed reef. The Chinese coastguard has previously deployed vessels to block missions by the Philippines to supply troops on the transport ship, which has […]
(Bloomberg) — The Philippines and Vietnam are set to sign a cooperation agreement between their coast guards as Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. boosts partnerships in the region amid lingering tensions with Beijing in the South China Sea. Most Read from Bloomberg Marcos, who’s scheduled to make a short visit to Vietnam from Monday, will […]
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, […]