Coast Guard vessels from China and the Philippines collide in disputed waters. |
Following a vessel collision on Sunday in the most recent flare-up in the disputed South China Sea, the coast guards of China and the Philippines have placed blame on one another.Read More |
Philippines claims that China fired a water cannon and damaged a ship in the South China Sea. |
Chinese Coast Guard warships collided with and harassed Philippine vessels on Monday on Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, according to a statement from the Philippine Coast Guard.Read More |
Nine Islamist Terrorists Are Killed by Philippine Troops, Two of Them Associated with Catholic Mass Bombing |
MANILA: The military claimed on Saturday that nine members of a pro-ISIS group had been slain by government forces in the southern Philippines. Among them were two suspects in the tragic explosion that occurred during a Catholic Mass last month.Read More |
'It's pure aggression,' says the Philippine military chief aboard a ship being harassed by China. |
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine military chief said Monday that he was onboard a supply boat with his men when it was blasted with a water cannon, encircled, and shoved by Chinese coast guard ships in the disputed South China Sea over the weekend.Read More |
The United States and the Philippines condemn the Chinese Coast Guard's use of water cannons on fishing vessels. |
MANILA, Philippines—The Chinese coast guard targeted Philippine vessels with water cannon blasts on Sunday and rammed one of them, causing damage and endangering Filipino crew members off a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, Philippine officials said.Read More |
The death toll in the Philippines' 'Killer Curve' bus accident has risen to 17. |
MANILA—A passenger who was critically injured when a bus crashed into a ravine in the central Philippines has died, bringing the total number of fatalities from the disaster to 17, police said on Wednesday.Read More |
At least four people were killed in an explosion during a Catholic mass in the Philippines. |
According to local police, an explosion happened during Catholic mass in a university gymnasium in the Philippines on Sunday, killing at least four people and injuring scores more.Read More |
The Philippines claims that Chinese vessels rammed a Coast Guard ship and a supply boat near a disputed shoal. |
MANILA, Philippines—A Chinese coast guard ship and an escorting vessel assaulted a Philippine coast guard ship and a military-run supply boat near a disputed shoal Sunday, according to Philippine authorities, raising worries of an armed war in the disputed South China Sea.Read More |
The Philippine military condemns the Chinese Coast Guard's use of a water cannon on its boat in a disputed area of the sea. |
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine military denounced the "excessive and offensive" deployment of a water cannon by a Chinese coast guard ship to prevent a Filipino supply boat from bringing more troops, food, water, and gasoline to a Philippine-occupied shoal in the disputed South China Sea on Sunday.Read More |
The United States is concerned about a blacklisted Chinese firm's involvement in island-building near its Manila embassy. |
MANILA, Philippines—Due to the involvement of a Washington-blacklisted Chinese business in massive land reclamation operations in Manila Bay near its heavily fortified embassy, the United States has raised alarm. The embassy stated on Wednesday.Read More |