While skirmishes between Chinese and Philippine ships have been increasing across the South China Sea, Monday’s incident marks the first time ... on the Second Thomas Shoal to stake its claim ...

He was referencing real-time ship tracking data that showed Chinese ships nearly crowding the shoal and reef. Both Mischief Reef and Second Thomas Shoal ... and—in a first for the event ...

Getting to the Second Thomas Shoal took months of negotiations ... Their first approach was blocked by Chinese coast guard ships. By late afternoon on our first day there, three more Chinese ...

Increasingly more Chinese coast guard ships are patrolling Second Thomas Shoal, First Thomas Shoal, and Half Moon Shoal, all within the Filipino EEZ or Exclusive Economic Zone, waters 380 kilometers ...

China's coast guard said on Thursday it had allowed a Philippine civilian vessel to deliver provisions to a warship "illegally grounded" at the Second Thomas Shoal, a disputed atoll in the South ...

Sabina is near the Second Thomas Shoal, another flashpoint where China has hampered the Philippine delivery of supplies for Filipino forces aboard a long-grounded navy ship, the BRP Sierra Madre.

about 30 to 35 miles east of the shoal. A third Chinese coast guard vessel and six paramilitary ships belonging to the so-called "Maritime Militia" had positioned themselves between their ...

It was the first Philippine government supply trip to the Second Thomas Shoal ... like in the past to demand that each other's ships leave the shoal immediately. Also, for the first time at ...