The Philippines has deployed a coast guard vessel and an aircraft to challenge and escort a Chinese research ship it said was conducting illegal marine scientific research activities within the ...

Analysts suspect China's fleet of civilian research ships also gather intelligence on behalf of the People's Liberation Army.

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on Monday announced that it has deployed its largest patrol vessel, the BRP Teresa Magbanua(MRRV-9701), and an aircraft to challenge and escort Chinese research vessel ...

In August, a Philippine coast guard vessel, the BRP Teresa Magbanua, sustained significant damage when it was repeatedly rammed by a Chinese ship close to Sabina Shoal, about 130 kilometres west ...

China's been building artificial islands in the South China Sea over the last decade to expand its control in the area.

The Defense Ministry in Tokyo said that the Air Self-Defense Force had scrambled fighter jets after a China Coast Guard ship entered Japan’s territorial waters around the islands and launched ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is heading to the Philippines seeking to further boost an alliance in the face of China’s growing assertiveness in the region and he plans to symbolically board ...

Taiwan's Foxconn , the world's largest contract electronics maker and Apple's biggest iPhone assembler, reported on Monday ...

Doctors aboard China Coast Guard vessels provide free medical consultations and deliver medicine to fishermen. In early March this year, Liu Yunhuang, the onboard doctor of the Wanshan ship ...

one of the two largest patrol ships built by Japan for the Philippine coast guard. The Magbanua has figured in increasingly hostile faceoffs with the Chinese coast guard in the South China Sea and ...