China has driven off two Philippine government ships that tried to "illegally land" on a disputed reef in the Sea on Friday, ...

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The Philippines on Monday called on Beijing to desist from "escalatory actions" at a South China Sea shoal and said a protest has been lodged over the presence of Chinese coast guard, militia and navy ...

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In 1999 the Philippines deliberately wrecked a ship on the Second Thomas Shoal, which they regularly garrison with up to a dozen troops. More recently the country won an international arbitration case ...

China Coast Guard vessels 21555 and 21551 use water cannons on the Philippine Navy-operated, civilian chartered resupply boat Unaizah May 4 during its resupply mission to Second Thomas Shoal.

The scenario centered on a contingency involving a crisis at Second Thomas Shoal, a reef that is occupied by approximately a dozen Philippine marines deployed on the BRP Sierra Madre, a dilapidated ...

The Philippines’ vow to maintain its strategy of openly challenging Chinese activities in the South China Sea while avoiding direct conflict has sparked calls for stronger measures, with a ...

On June 24, it was spotted near the BRP Sierra Madre which serves as the Philippines’ military outpost in Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal. The next day, it passed by El Nido, Palawan province, ...

China calls Scarborough Shoal “Huangyan Dao” and the Second Thomas Shoal Ren’al Jiao. Before the 1970s, China’s sovereignty over the South China Sea islands had never been challenged by ...