China conducted two one-day live-fire drills in ... US sent a littoral combat ship and a P8-A Poseidon maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft. Last Friday Philippine President Ferdinand ...
The Philippine coast guard is looking to counter China’s increasingly aggressive behavior in the disputed South China Sea with a new monitoring base on Thitu Island, a remote island occupied by ...
A confrontation at sea with Chinese vessels is imminently plausible and could easily escalate into conflict and launch the ...
The exercises in the disputed waters come days after Chinese leader Xi Jinping met his counterparts to discuss ways of ...
Japanese coastal guns returned fire, with shells striking within a few meters ... and the firing of a few shells on Wake Island for gunnery practice. The ship arrived in the Philippines on August 14 ...
“We urge the Philippine side to stop its infringement behavior immediately,” CCG spokesperson Gan Yu said in a statement Friday, adding that they “tracked and monitored the ships, took ...
MANILA--A ferry carrying about 250 passengers and crew caught fire between Philippine islands and at ... Some jumped off the ship,” Hataman told The Associated Press by telephone.
A Chinese vessel again used the water cannon to drive away a Philippine boat in the West Philippine Sea, the National Task Force-West Philippine Sea (NTF-WPS) said Friday. But the NTF-WPS also ...
US conducts freedom of navigation trip in SCS MANILA, Philippines — Aircraft from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) ...
The Philippines said the ship was on a routine resupply mission ... U.N. head presses Security Council to act on Gaza cease-fire Dec. 6 (UPI) -- U.N. head Antonio Guterres on Wednesday invoked ...
Philippine resupply missions to a grounded vessel in the Second Thomas Shoal, specifically, have seen water cannon fire and diplomatic protests, and last month ships from the two countries ...
On July 29, 1967, the USS Forrestal suffered a huge fire on her flight deck, resulting in the loss of more than 130 men and ...