a navy warship that was deliberately grounded by the Philippine military in the late 1990s in the shallows of Second Thomas Shoal to serve as a territorial outpost. China also claims the area and ...

Analysts say the agreement 'commits both states to a status quo' and urge the Philippines to hold firm on its South China Sea ...

Following this month's incident, a Philippine navy official made clear that Manila would not allow Beijing to remove its military outpost on the Second Thomas Shoal. Addressing the Australian ...

Second Thomas Shoal, part of the disputed Spratly Islands ... was deliberately grounded in 1999 to create a territorial outpost. The ship remains an actively commissioned military vessel, meaning ...

China and the Philippines have traded barbs for months over manoeuvres at Second Thomas Shoal, an atoll within Manila's 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea.

While tensions subsided following a tentative agreement over resupply at Second Thomas Shoal, a standoff between ... Madre into a permanently habitable outpost. The China Coast Guard on several ...

The country's military chief claims that the incident saw Chinese boats come within five meters of the Philippine outpost at Second Thomas Shoal.

Getting to the Second Thomas Shoal took months of negotiations with ... mission but said they were proud to serve in such a remote outpost in defense of Philippines territory.

BEIJING, Jan 24 (Reuters) - China's coast guard said the Philippines on Friday sent a civilian vessel to deliver provisions to its warship "illegally grounded" at Second Thomas Shoal, a disputed ...