The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) successfully brought food supplies and a new batch of elite Marines to the BRP ...

The Philippines on Friday completed another rotation and reprovisioning (RORE) mission to the BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin ...

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

The Philippines said it expressed "serious concern” over the presence of Chinese vessels near its shores during talks with ...

The Philippines and China agreed Thursday to an indefinite implementation of an arrangement for the resupply of daily ...

The Philippines said it expressed “serious concern” over the presence of Chinese vessels near its shores during talks with ...

Caught off guard, the Philippines’ only available counter was to run a U.S.-donated World War II-era Navy ship, the BRP ...

Senior Philippine and Chinese diplomats will resume talks in China's southeastern city of Xiamen on Thursday amid Chinese ...

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 ...

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 ...

The situation at Second Thomas Shoal has also seen heightened tension. In 2024, China and the Philippines were engaged in multiple stand-offs at the shoal, located in the Philippines’ exclusive ...