The more ignorant officials claim that Scarborough is far (800 ... de Masinloc was a name given to the shoal by the Spanish colonizers. In 1792, another map drawn by the Alejandro Malaspina ...

On December 4, Chinese ships, including a navy vessel, confronted Philippine vessels close to a disputed shoal in the South China Sea. The confrontations at Scarborough and Sabina shoals indicate ...

China, the cabinet official said, had pulled its coast guard vessels out of Scarborough Shoal, a chain of reefs in the South China Sea that’s at the center of a territorial dispute between Manila and ...