HONG KONG/MANILA--Satellite images of the hotly disputed Scarborough ... stop the resupply of Filipino troops stationed at Second Thomas Shoal, he said. “China’s attempts to prevent Filipino ...

China claims more than 80 per cent of the South China Sea as its territory - demarcated on its maps as a nine-dash line, or, more recently, as a 10-dash line. The Second Thomas Shoal falls within ...

BRP SIERRA MADRE, a marooned transport ship which Philippine Marines live in as a military outpost, sits on the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, part of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. — ...