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In this handout photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, a Chinese Coast Guard ship uses water cannons on Philippine navy-operated supply boat M/L Kalayaan as it approaches Second Thomas Shoal, locally known as Ayungin Shoal, in the disputed South China Sea on Sunday Dec. 10, 2023. The Chinese coast guard assaulted three Philippine vessels with water cannon blasts Sunday and rammed one of them, causing serious engine damage off a disputed shoal in the South China Sea just a day after similar hostilities at another shoal, the Philippine coast guard said. (Philippine Coast Guard via AP)

Philippines says Chinese coast guard used water cannons against its vessels for a second day

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press

FILE - Communist New People's Army (NPA) rebels hold weapons in formation in the hinterlands of Davao, southern Philippines, on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. The Philippine government and the country’s communist rebels have agreed to resume talks aimed at ending decades of armed conflict, one of Asia's longest, Norwegian mediators announced Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. (AP Photo, File)

Philippine government and communist rebels agree to resume talks on ending their protracted conflict

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

A Chinese coast guard ship tries to block the way of a Philippine supply boat, left, as it heads towards Second Thomas Shoal, locally known as Ayungin Shoal, at the disputed South China Sea on Aug. 22, 2023. Philippine officials on Monday, Sept. 25 condemned a floating barrier laid by Chinese coast guard vessels to prevent Filipino fishermen from entering a disputed lagoon in the South China Sea and said they would take actions to remove the obstruction. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Philippine coast guard says it removed barrier placed by China’s coast guard in disputed shoal

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press

Philippine Army Artillery Regiment Commander Anthony Coronel, left, returns a salute from a U.S. soldier during a joint military drill called Salaknib at Laur, Nueva Ecija province, northern Philippines on Friday, March 31, 2023. The U.S. and the Philippines have agreed to hold more small and major combat exercises in 2023 and expand annual military drills following disruptions caused by two years of coronavirus lockdowns, according to Philippine military officials. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippines names 4 new bases for U.S. forces amid China fury

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Chinese structures and buildings on the man-made Fiery Cross Reef at the disputed Spratlys group of islands in the South China Sea are seen on March 20, 2022. The Philippine government has summoned a senior Chinese diplomat in Manila to protest the harassment by the Chinese coast guard of a research vessel manned by Filipino and Taiwanese scientists in the disputed South China Sea, officials said Tuesday May 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Sea feud with China flares as Marcos prepares for presidency

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press

Philippines protests `blocking’ of its patrol ships by China

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, residents wait in line to receive COVID-19 vaccines in Ruili, southwestern China's Yunnan Province, April 1, 2021. COVID-19 cases in the southwestern Chinese city of Ruili bordering on Myanmar have now topped 100 on Monday, April 5, 2021. That comes as authorities have launched an aggressive campaign to vaccinate all 300,000 residents of the city, whose outbreak is something of an anomaly in a country that has all-but eliminated local transmission of the virus.(Chen Xinbo/Xinhua via AP)

Asia Today: Philippines extends lockdown as infections spike

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An activist holds a slogan outside the headquarters of broadcast network ABS-CBN corp. on Tuesday, May 5, 2020 in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines. A Philippine government agency has ordered the country's leading broadcast network, which the president has targeted for it's critical news coverage, to halt operations after its congressional franchise expired, sparking shock over the loss of a major news provider during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippine TV network’s shutdown amid pandemic sparks uproar

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2019, file photo, protesters rally outside the armed forces headquarters to mark World Press Freedom Day which was declared by the UN General Assembly in Manila, Philippines. The Philippine government’s chief lawyer is asking the Supreme Court to shut down the country’s largest TV network by revoking its operating franchises because of alleged constitutional violations, in a move critics call an attempt to muzzle the media. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File )

Philippine gov’t asks court to shut down leading TV network

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 13, 2018, file photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, China's indigenous aircraft carrier lifts anchor in Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning Province. The Philippines says it is taking “appropriate diplomatic action” to protect its South China Sea territorial claims, after China landed bombers on one of the islands it controls. China’s first entirely home-built aircraft carrier completed a round of sea trials, putting it closer to possible deployment in the disputed waterway, while Chinese tourists in Vietnam sparked anger by wearing T-shirts showing their country’s territorial claims, some of which overlap with Hanoi’s. (Li Gang/Xinhua via AP, File)

Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

Philippine rebels reject terror tag but still open to talks

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 9, 2017, file photo, black smoke from continuing military air strikes rises above a mosque in Marawi city, southern Philippines. The human rights group Amnesty International said in a report on Friday, Nov. 17, 2017, it has documented a variety of serious violations of humanitarian law, some amounting to war crimes, during the five-month conflict between Philippine government troops and Islamic State-allied militants who laid siege to the southern city of Marawi. .(AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Rights group: Militants, troops violated law in Marawi siege

By TERESA CEROJANO - Associated Press

Philippines says it learned of city siege plans in advance

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Philippines eyes more airports to unclog Manila hub

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In this Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, file photo, U.S. Marine Pfc Joseph Scott Pemberton, a suspect in the gruesome killing of a transgender Filipino woman, is escorted to his detention as he arrives inside the compound of the Camp Aguinaldo military headquarters in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines. American forces are guarding Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton, yet a ring of Filipino troops surrounds them. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Marine murder case reveals U.S.-Philippine sore spot

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press

Protesters are blocked by police as they attempt to hold a rally closer to the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines Tuesday, May 27, 2014, to protest the recent agreement between the Philippine and U.S. militaries known as the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA). Civil society groups, including two former senators, who voted to reject the presence of U.S. military bases and its troops in 1991, filed a petition at the Supreme Court on Monday questioning the legality of the new security agreement, which was signed during the state visit by President Barack Obama in late April. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Philippines insists US military accord is legal

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In this photo taken Feb. 25, 2014 by surveillance planes and released Thursday, May 15, 2014, by the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs, a Chinese vessel, top center, is used to expand structures and land on the Johnson Reef, called Mabini by the Philippines and Chigua by China, at the Spratly Islands at South China Sea, Philippines. The Philippines has protested China's reclamation of land in the disputed reef in the South China Sea that can be used to build an airstrip or an offshore military base in the increasingly volatile region, the country's top diplomat and other officials said Wednesday, May 14, 2014. The white arrow was added by the source. (AP Photo/Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs)

Philippines releases photos of Chinese reclamation

By OLIVER TEVES - Associated Press

Filipino Muslims cheer after learning that a peace accord has been signed between Moro Islamic Liberation Front leaders and Philippine President Benigno Aquino III during a rally Thursday March 27, 2014 outside the presidential palace in Manila, Philippines. The Philippine government signed a peace accord with the country's largest Muslim rebel group on Thursday, the culmination of years of negotiations and a significant political achievement for President Benigno Aquino III. (AP Photo)

Philippines and Muslim rebel group sign peace deal

By OLIVER TEVES - Associated Press

Philippine military personnel try to prioritize children and women first as they wait for evacuation flights in Tacloban, central Philippines, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Thousands of typhoon survivors swarmed the airport on Tuesday seeking a flight out, but only a few hundred made it, leaving behind a shattered, rain-lashed city short of food and water and littered with countless bodies. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Tons of aid in Philippines, but not where needed

By Jim Gomez and Todd Pitman - Associated Press

Philippines rejects new Chinese territorial claim

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press