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

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

China's coast guard said the Philippines on Friday sent a civilian vessel to deliver provisions to its warship "illegally ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

“The Philippines’ resupply missions and maintenance of BRP Sierra Madre are part of ... boats to prevent it from approaching the Second Thomas Shoal. The brazen move, which was caught on ...

inspect by boarding and expel six Philippine vessels that attempted to deliver supplies to BRP Sierra Madre, a crumbling Philippine warship grounded on Ayungin or Second Thomas Shoal that China ...

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 ...

also known as Second Thomas Shoal, seeks to avoid altercations and ease tensions after a violent confrontation on June 17, 2024 at the Philippine-occupied area. The decrepit BRP Sierra Madre, a ...

The Marcos administration continued to push back against China’s encroachments in its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), reinforcing the Sierra ... Madre, a dilapidated warship grounded on Second ...