During a recent visit to Honolulu, the Philippine coast guard’s top officer, Adm. Ronnie Gil Gavan, told a roundtable of reporters that tension in “the South China Sea is an existential issue not only ...

Simplicio Calicoy was celebrating his birthday outside his daughter’s home on Maliwaliw Island in the Philippines when strong winds started to whip around them. The fisherman and his family rushed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New findings from sites in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Timor-Leste challenge the notion that technological advancements during ...

THE Chinese Embassy in Manila has sternly rejected what it called “groundless accusations” in the Philippine Coast Guard’s ...

PUERTO PRINCESA, Philippines (AP) — A Chinese ship ran aground in stormy weather in shallow waters off a Philippines-occupied island in the disputed South China Sea, prompting Filipino forces to go on ...

There’s another way to tackle China’s exclusion of Filipino fisherfolk from the South China Sea: cutting off its access to the Philippine seafood market. The current Philippine government’s ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Chinese coast guard ships and a Chinese navy helicopter harassed a group of Philippine fisheries vessels conducting a scientific survey in a hotly disputed area of the South ...

BEIJING, Jan 23 (Reuters) - China and the Philippines said on Friday they launched rescue operations after receiving reports of a distressed cargo ship near the Scarborough Shoal in the South China ...

MANILA, Oct 4 (Reuters) - The Philippines accused Chinese maritime officials on Friday of carrying out an "unjustified assault" on Vietnamese fishermen in the contested waters of the South China Sea, ...