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HANGZHOU – Filipina rower Joanie Delgaco found the waters of Hangzhou to her liking as she finished second in her semifinal heat Friday and advanced to the medal race on Monday at the Fuyang Water Sports Center. Delgaco, a gold medalist in the 2019 SEA Games, crossed the finish line of the 2,000-meter race in 8:18.30 behind Japan’s Shiho Yonekawa (8:06.32) and just ahead of Win Wun Leung of Hong Kong (8:20.35).
MANILA, Philippines (Updated 12:05 p.m.) — The Department of Tourism has thrown its support behind a directive to impose the maximum penalty on an airport screener who allegedly stole $300 bills from a Chinese passenger departing Manila.
ABOARD BRP MALABRIGO (AP) — A Chinese coast guard ship blocked a Philippine patrol vessel steaming into a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, causing a frightening near-collision in the latest act of Beijing’s aggression in the strategic waterway.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government summoned China’s ambassador on Monday and presented a strongly worded diplomatic protest over the Chinese coast guard’s use of water cannons in a weekend confrontation with Philippine vessels in the disputed South China Sea, officials said.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine military on Sunday condemned a Chinese coast guard ship’s “excessive and offensive” use of a water cannon to block a Filipino supply boat from delivering new troops, food, water and fuel to a Philippine-occupied shoal in the disputed South China Sea.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Forecasters in Bermuda warned Wednesday of dangerous swells and rip currents as Hurricane Nigel spun through open waters in the northern Atlantic.
Three ships from the Chinese coastguard blocked and fired water cannons on two Philippines supply boats within the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the disputed South China Sea, the Philippines has said.
A Chinese survey ship, which entered Philippine waters for the second time over the past year without authorisation, has left the country, but observers are increasingly alarmed over the intrusions, amid confusing statements on why it was in the country’s seas.