Category: Maritime

The Philippines has agreed to buy five coast guard patrol ships from Japan in a deal worth more than $400 million, Manila said Friday, as the Southeast Asian country faces growing Chinese pressure in the South China Sea. Japan will loan ...

A Philippine boat convoy bearing supplies for Filipino fishers said it was headed back to port Thursday. It had ditched plans to sail to a Beijing-held reef off the Southeast Asian country after one of its boats was "constantly shadowed" by a Chinese vessel.

A convoy of boats carrying Philippine civilians bearing supplies for Filipino fishers has abandoned plans to sail closer to a China-held reef off the Southeast Asian country, organizers said Thursday. The convoy set sail Wednesday to distribute fuel and food to ...

By Faith Brown Civilians on board Philippine fishing boats sailed Wednesday towards a China-controlled reef off the Southeast Asian country, handing out aid to Filipino fishermen and dropping buoys to assert their rights to the disputed waterway.

Four China Coast Guard ships backed by 26 maritime militia vessels are heading toward the disputed Scarborough Shoal to block an estimated one hundred Philippine civilians from completing a resupply mission for compatriot fishers. The volunteers are scheduled to arrive at the ...

Beijing's military on Friday said it had tailed and issued a warning to a U.S. Navy ship in the disputed South China Sea, just days after the same vessel sparked China's ire by sailing through the Taiwan Strait. Beijing claims almost ...

President Ferdinand Marcos said Monday the Philippines would not respond in kind to China's deployment of water cannon against its vessels, ruling out the use of "offensive" equipment as Manila asserts its sovereignty in the disputed South China Sea. Beijing has ...

The Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday it summoned a senior Chinese embassy official over the "harassment of Philippine vessels" in the South China Sea. "The Philippines protested the harassment, ramming, swarming, shadowing and blocking, dangerous maneuvers, use of water ...

China's coast guard has become more aggressive towards Philippine vessels in the South China Sea, and its water cannon attacks could threaten the lives of crew, a government spokesman in Manila warned Wednesday. A series of high-seas incidents involving the two ...

Chinese and Philippine Coast Guard vessels confronted one another again in the South China Sea on Tuesday, with both sides accusing each other of provoking this latest incident. The Chinese side claims Philippines ships, including an accompanying Coast Guard vessel, were ...

A video of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. purportedly ordering the Philippines Armed Forces to take action against China circulated widely on YouTube on Wednesday, prompting an immediate response from the president's communications team who denounced it as a "deepfake." The audio on ...

Nearly 17,000 soldiers from four countries are mobilizing in the Philippines as part of unprecedented joint military exercises that are bound to further strain tensions with Beijing over territorial disputes in the South China Sea. The annual “Balikatan" exercises, named after the ...