MANILA, Philippines — No Vietnamese fishing vessels were monitored off the coast of Pasuquin in Ilocos Norte, according to the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG). This discovery came after the agency ...

The Philippine military on Sunday hit back at China by planting a flag at the disputed Sandy Cay reef days after Beijing had conducted a similar operation, the Philippine News Agency reported.

UNYIELDING. Members of Philippine maritime law enforcement agencies display a Philippine flag during the Inter-Agency Maritime Operation (IAMO) at a cay in Pag-asa Island in the West Philippine Sea on ...

Showing photos and videos of the Philippine flag being unfurled on two of the three sand bars that make up Sandy Cay in the South China Sea,” Lo said. Lo said Philippine officials confirmed that ...

The release of the images comes as ... An image posted by Philippines Coast Guard spokesperson, Jay Tarriela, on X showed five officers holding the national flag on a white sandbar.

CEBU, Philippines — The 67 million Filipino voters must exercise discernment in choosing between candidates loyal to the Philippine flag and those whose campaigns are allegedly funded by China ...

BEIJING (AP) — The Philippines on Monday rejected China's claim to a group of three sandbars in the South China Sea, after recent displays by both sides of their national flags on the ...

as it raised the national flag on the small sandbank located just a few kilometers from a major Philippine military base, according to a report by The Japan Times. Images released by Chinese state ...

Personnel from the Navy, Coast Guard, and PNP Maritime Group display the Philippine flag on Sandy Cay during an inter-agency maritime operation on April 27, 2025, to counter China's claim that it ...

Philippine Marines, National Police officers ... Sandy Cay—known to China as Tiexian Reef—and displayed a Chinese flag in an assertion of Beijing’s “maritime control” and “sovereign ...