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The May elections could give peace a chance
SO, who won the May 12 midterm elections? Pro-administration Philippine media is spinning the May 12 election results as ...
China continues to resort to disinformation – aside from engaging in hostile acts – to promote its illegal claim in the West Philippine Sea, according to the National Maritime Council (NMC). At a ...
Officials in Manila have said they want to acquire similar systems in the future as part of military modernization.
The U.S. and the Philippines have been holding their yearly military exercises together. This year, Japan and Australia also joined the drills, which come at a time of simmering tension with China.
The encounter was notable for the involvement of naval vessels—a rare occurrence in a long-running dispute more commonly played out by the nations' coast guards, seen as posing a lower risk of ...
MANILA — A Philippine Navy patrol near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea encountered "aggressive and ...
Two Chinese Navy frigates and a China Coast Guard cutter harassed a Philippine Navy patrol ship in the South China Sea near ...
Senate Majority Leader Francis Tolentino on Thursday decried the parlous maneuvers of two Chinese warships and a China Coast ...
The Philippines criticized on Thursday a "high-risk" maneuver by a Chinese vessel near the disputed Scarborough Shoal, known ...
The Philippines and China gave conflicting versions on Thursday of a maritime confrontation around a contested shoal in the South China Sea, the latest incident in a longstanding dispute between the ...
The venerable warship served in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters during World War II, including the invasions of the ...
A former US World War II-era warship, which survived two of the Pacific War’s most important battles, was supposed to be used in a live-fire exercise off the western coast of the Philippines as part ...