The Department of Foreign Affairs said that the Philippines’ latest rotation and reprovisioning mission to Ayungin Shoal on ...

In 1999, the Philippines purposely grounded the Sierra Madre at the Second Thomas Shoal. The secretary of defense at the time, Orlando Sanchez Mercado, claimed it was in reaction to China's ...

Fewer Chinese ships were spotted in the West Philippine Sea during the latest resupply mission at a military outpost in ...

The Philippines and China have been locked in a months-long war of words and coastguard skirmishes over territory in the South China Sea, with the Second Thomas ... at the Sierra Madre wreck ...

China's coast guard reported that the Philippines sent a civilian vessel to supply a warship grounded at Second Thomas Shoal ...

Romeo Brawner following a violent clash in June that saw Chinese forces raid a resupply mission to Sierra Madre at Second Thomas Shoal on June 17. The incident was the culmination of China’s ...

It was the first Philippine government supply trip to the Second Thomas ... Manila’s outpost at the shoal, on a long-grounded and rusting warship, the BRP Sierra Madre. In the worst ...

Philippine officials summoned a Chinese Embassy diplomat in Manila to convey a strong protest over the confrontation Tuesday off Second Thomas Shoal ... to the BRP Sierra Madre, a navy warship ...

Manila said that “no untoward incidents" took place during Saturday's mission to Second Thomas ... The BRP Sierra Madre, a warship grounded on a shoal in the Spratly Islands, has become the ...

The Philippines encountered two contrasting responses from China to its military and civilian activities on Friday.