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Sierra Madre - Explainer: How a rusty naval ship is inflaming China-Philippines tensions - timesofindia.indiatimes.com - Philippines - Malaysia - Vietnam - China - Taiwan - Beijing - Brunei - Manila

Explainer: How a rusty naval ship is inflaming China-Philippines tensions

China on Tuesday repeated its call for the Philippines to tow away a grounded warship -- a rusted-out World War II relic used as a base -- from a disputed shoal, after Manila told Beijing it would not abandon the area.HowIn the latest spat on August 5, Chinese and Philippine vessels had another tense encounter in the disputed sea, with Manila accusing Beijing of using water cannons and blocking a resupply mission to soldiers manning the

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Maria Ressa - Philippine Nobel winner Maria Ressa acquitted of tax evasion - timesofindia.indiatimes.com - Philippines - Manila

Philippine Nobel winner Maria Ressa acquitted of tax evasion

MANILA: Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa was acquitted Tuesday of her final tax evasion charge, the latest legal victory for the veteran journalist as she battles to stay out of prison.Ressa smiled as the judge delivered the verdict in a case that has dragged on for nearly five years.The 59-year-old, who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2021, has been fighting multiple charges filed during former president Rodrigo Duterte's administration, and still faces two cases.A vocal critic of Duterte and his deadly drug war, Ressa has long maintained that the charges against her and Rappler, the news website she co-founded in 2012, were politically motivated.

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Philippines condemns Chinese boats' 'illegal' actions in South China Sea - timesofindia.indiatimes.com - Philippines - China - Manila

Philippines condemns Chinese boats' 'illegal' actions in South China Sea

MANILA : The Philippines condemned "illegal" actions by Chinese vessels on Friday after the boats allegedly interfered in another resupply mission to a remote military outpost in the disputed South China Sea. Philippine Coast Guard vessels were escorting supply boats to Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands when they encountered Chinese coast guard and "militia" boats, the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea said. While the cargo was successfully delivered to the handful of Filipino troops stationed on a grounded navy ship, the task force said Chinese vessels had carried out "harassment, dangerous maneuvers, and aggressive conduct" towards the Philippine boats."The Task Force strongly deplores and condemns the continued illegal, aggressive, and destabilizing conduct of the CCG and the CMM within our nation's EEZ," said the task force, using the acronyms for the Chinese vessels and the Philippines' Exclusive Economic Zone.

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Philippine typhoon Saola weakens as it nears Taiwan - timesofindia.indiatimes.com - Philippines - Taiwan - Manila

Philippine typhoon Saola weakens as it nears Taiwan

MANILA: Tropical storm Saola headed towards Taiwan on Monday while bringing heavy rain to the northern Philippines, cutting power to some towns and forcing the evacuation of nearly 2,000 people, authorities said. With Saola forecast to make landfall over southern Taiwan late on Wednesday or early on Thursday, the typhoon's maximum winds eased to 155 kilometres per hour (96 miles per hour), with gusts of up to 190 kph (118 mph), the weather agency said. The seventh tropical storm in the Philippines this year, Saola had sustained winds of 185 kph (115 mph) and gusts of up to 230 kph (143 mph) on Sunday evening. Besides the wind, rain and power cuts, it forced nearly 2,000 people to seek shelter in evacuation centres, the disaster agency said.

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Video: Philippines Airport Worker Caught Swallowing Cash Allegedly Stolen From Passenger - ndtv.com - Philippines - China - Manila

Video: Philippines Airport Worker Caught Swallowing Cash Allegedly Stolen From Passenger

Authorities in the Philippines are investigating an airport security officer who was caught on video swallowing $300 in bills allegedly stolen from a departing Chinese passenger. According to CNN Philippines, the incident took place in Terminal 1 of Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport on September 8. The Office for Transportation Security (OTS) posted a statement about the incident on its Facebook page on Tuesday. It said that the identity of the security officer involved has been established and the gathering of evidence is already ongoing.

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JIM GOMEZ - Eduardo Ano - Philippines vows to remove floating barrier placed by China's coast guard at a disputed lagoon - apnews.com - Philippines - Malaysia - Vietnam - China - Taiwan - Washington - Brunei - Manila

Philippines vows to remove floating barrier placed by China's coast guard at a disputed lagoon

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials vowed Monday to remove a floating barrier placed by China’s coast guard to prevent Filipino fishing boats from entering a disputed lagoon in the South China Sea.

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Jay Tarriela - Philippines condemns ‘floating barrier’ in South China Sea - aljazeera.com - Philippines - China - Beijing - county Island - Manila

Philippines condemns ‘floating barrier’ in South China Sea

The Philippines has accused China’s coastguard of installing a “floating barrier” in a disputed area of the South China Sea, which it said prevents Filipinos from fishing within its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

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Ferdinand Marcos-Junior - CNN Philippines Staff - Enrique Manalo - Kamala Harris - Teresita Daza - PH, US, Japan discuss activities, work on plan to boost trilateral cooperation - cnnphilippines.com - Philippines - Usa - Indonesia - Japan - China - New York - region Indo-Pacific - Manila

PH, US, Japan discuss activities, work on plan to boost trilateral cooperation

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, September 24) – The Philippines, the United States, and Japan discussed possible activities to strengthen their trilateral cooperation amid rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific region.

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