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MANILA, Philippines — Manila summoned Beijing's ambassador on Monday over two collisions between Philippine and Chinese vessels in the disputed South China Sea, a foreign ministry official said.
MANILA, Philippines — South Korea is considering a proposal for a Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the Philippines.
(UPDATES) THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Monday filed a diplomatic protest over the reported harassment of a Philippine Air Force (PAF) patrol aircraft when Chinese pilots dropped flares in the path of the PAF plane.
MANILA, Philippines — China has almost tripled the number of its military vessels in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), with nine People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) ships spotted in the area from only three in the past few days, according to the Philippine Navy.
MANILA: The Philippine government said Tuesday it has filed a diplomatic protest against Beijing after Chinese jets flew dangerously close and fired a volley of flares in the path of a Philippine air force patrol plane over a disputed shoal in the South China Sea. The Chinese air force jets' hostile actions against the Philippine military's NC-212i light transport plane Thursday over the Scarborough Shoal was the first such aerial encounter since high-seas hostilities between Beijing and Manila in the busy seaway started to flare last year.
MANILA, Philippines — Disgruntled over China's immediate "mischaracterization" of the deal it struck over Ayungin Shoal, Philippine officials now appear to be on a wait-and-see approach on whether their provisional arrangement with Beijing is enough to keep tensions from again flaring up.
BY GERARD NAVAL and VICTOR REYES
MANILA, Philippines — The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson’s mischaracterizing the successful Philippine resupply mission to Filipino troops stationed on the BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal on Saturday is “unfortunate,” the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday.
MANILA: The Philippines' foreign ministry accused China on Sunday of 'mischaracterising' an arrangement between them that allowed the unimpeded resupply of Filipino troops stationed on a beached naval vessel in the South China Sea. After repeated clashes in the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, the two countries reached a "provisional arrangement" earlier this month on resupply missions to soldiers stationed at the Sierra Madre, a naval vessel Manila deliberately grounded in 1999 to reinforce its maritime claims.