What You Need to Know: The Scarborough Shoal has become a focal point of rising tensions between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos ...

The exercise around the Scarborough shoal, one of Asia's most hotly contested areas, was aimed at enhancing the navy's capability to secure what it said were Philippine waters and the country's ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ... a large Chinese coast guard ship patrolled hotly disputed Scarborough Shoal and then sailed toward the northwestern coast ...

Bajo de Masinloc is the Philippine name for Scarborough Shoal, a contested maritime feature known in China as Huangyan Island. It is a triangular coral reef formation surrounding a lagoon ...

The move comes against the backdrop of rising tension between the Philippines, a U.S. treaty ally, and Beijing during the past two years, stemming from their overlapping claims in the busy ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Navy said it did not monitor the presence of China's largest Coast Guard vessel in Scarborough Shoal (Bajo de Masinloc) in the South China Sea on New Year's Day.

The Philippines has deployed vessels and aircraft to track a massive Chinese Coast Guard ship, the world's largest, spotted near Scarborough Shoal, a disputed area within its exclusive economic ...

A large Chinese coast guard ship patrolled hotly disputed Scarborough Shoal in recent days and then sailed toward the northwestern coast of the Philippines on Tuesday, coming as close as 77 ...

China has defended its coastguard patrols in the disputed South China Sea, responding to a protest from the Philippines over what it called the Chinese force’s “continued illegal presence and ...