By Kenneth Christiane L. Basilio, Reporter NEARLY 50 Chinese navy and coast guard ships were monitored at contested features in the South China Sea in June, the Philippine military said on Tuesday, in ...

Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines have all attempted to counter Chinese claims to waters within their exclusive economic ...

It’s just another day on Thitu Island, where some 335 Filipino civilians live on the front lines of the South China Sea dispute. Locals call it Pag-asa, the Filipino word for hope. It lies about ...

Amid growing tensions in the South China Sea, Filipino civilians and soldiers on Thitu Island - known locally as Pag-asa - live quietly under the gaze of Chinese vessels. Their daily lives are a ...

Thitu Island is home to a Philippine fishing village and armed forces, and is the largest of nine islands and islets controlled by the Philippines. It lies about 26km from Subi Reef (渚碧礁), which China ...

A Chinese ship has run aground in stormy weather in shallow waters off a Philippines-occupied island in the disputed South China Sea, prompting Filipino forces to go on alert.

A Chinese ship has run aground in stormy weather in shallow waters off a Philippines-occupied island in the disputed South China Sea, prompting Filipino forces to go on alert.

MANILA: 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 alert, Philippine ...

Thitu Island is home to the Philippines' largest military outpost in the South China Sea's Spratly Islands archipelago.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said that the extension of the runway on Pag-asa (Thitu) Island in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) has already ...

THE Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on Monday said it does not expect Chinese vessels to harass a civilian-led sail to Thitu Island in the South China Sea, but it will deploy ships to prevent incidents ...

Sandy Cay lies just a few nautical miles from Thitu Island, the largest Philippine military outpost in the Spratly Islands.