Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Chinese coast-guard vessel and personnel on a rubber boat over Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea on Thursday.JAM ...

MANILA, Philippines — An explosion and fire on a wooden fishing boat at sea killed six Filipino crewmembers while six others were rescued in the nighttime darkness, coast guard officials said Thursday ...

Philippine and Chinese government vessels collided last week in the South China Sea, according to officials from both nations, the most recent skirmish involving competing claimants to territory in ...

MANILA, Philippines — A wooden Filipino fishing boat was allegedly rammed by an unidentified vessel in the vicinity of the Spratly Islands in the West Philippine Sea last Jan. 30. Five of its ...

Simplicio Calicoy was celebrating his birthday outside his daughter’s home on Maliwaliw Island in the Philippines when strong winds started to whip around them. The fisherman and his family rushed ...

Videos have surfaced allegedly showing the Chinese coast guard chasing Philippine fishermen from traditional fishing grounds within Manila's own exclusive economic zone (EEZ) grounds earlier this ...

A massive shipping vessel — capable of removing 10–20 per cent of an area's fish standing stock — was found fishing illegally in one of the Philippines' protected marine parks. Apo Reef, the ...

MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines' Bureau of Fisheries said a "Chinese maritime militia" boat deliberately sideswiped one of its two vessels that were patrolling near Thitu island in the contested ...