The "frank and constructive discussions” came two weeks after a major clash close to Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands.

China's coast guard said the Philippines on Friday sent a civilian vessel to deliver provisions to its warship "illegally ...

The islands are part of a huge swath of the ... Most boats approaching the Second Thomas Shoal come from Palawan, from the southeast. We came from the northwest, which the Chinese patrol boats ...

The Department of Foreign Affairs said that the Philippines’ latest rotation and reprovisioning mission to Ayungin Shoal on ...

U.S. and Philippine fighter aircraft have staged a joint patrol and training over a disputed South China Sea shoal where ...

The agreement, which is designed to reduce tensions at Second Thomas Shoal ... after a June 17 clash at a disputed shoal in the Spratly Islands. The country's top diplomat says that the country ...

Manila blamed the incident near the Philippine-held Second Thomas Shoal on China's "reckless and illegal" behaviour but Gan Yu, a spokesman for the Chinese coastguard, said the Philippines had ...

The Philippines has outposts on nine reefs and islands in the Spratlys, including Second Thomas Shoal - which it calls Ayungin. Wu said China was willing to properly resolve the dispute with the ...

China responded by trying to blockade Second Thomas Shoal, resulting in a series of tense incidents in which the CCG rammed and fired water cannons at PCG vessels, injuring several Filipino ...

China has driven off two Philippine government ships that tried to "illegally land" on a disputed reef in the Sea on Friday, ...

China and the Philippines have traded barbs for months over manoeuvres at Second Thomas Shoal, an atoll within Manila's 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea.