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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

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Prosecutors: Pilot filmed underage girls in Philippines

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URI will try to improve fisheries management in Philippines

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SD police provide anti-trafficking training in Philippines

By TIFFANY TAN - Associated Press

Philippines to patrol disputed shoal despite China protest

By BULLIT MARQUEZ - Associated Press

A table and other furniture sit outside the home of Rosalie Santallan Achiu, a woman who is the center of an investigation for elder abuse by two law enforcement officers, Friday, March 16, 2018, in North Highlands, Calif. Two Sacramento County sheriff's deputies are facing allegations of stealing money from Achiu, and putting her on a plane to the Philippines. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Deputies accused of complex plan to bilk woman with dementia

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

This file photo taken from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, Monday, May 12, 2014, shows their leader Abubakar Shekau speaking to the camera. (AP Photo) (Associated Press) ** FILE **

U.S. sharpens focus on ISIS in Asia and Africa

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, file photo, Philippines' goalkeeper Neil Etheridge fails to block a Bahrain goal during a preliminary joint qualifier for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the 2019 AFC Asian Cup in Riffa, Bahrain. Cardiff City goalkeeper Etheridge may not just become the first southeast Asian to play in the English Premier League later this year, he could also help develop soccer in the Philippines, on and off the field. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

Etheridge and Philippines dreaming of English Premier League

By JOHN DUERDEN - Associated Press

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures while addressing Filipino Overseas Workers who were repatriated from Kuwait, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in suburban Pasay city southeast of Manila, Philippines. Human rights groups condemned the Philippine president Tuesday for his remarks about troops shooting female communist rebels in the genitals to render them "useless," which they said can encourage sexual violence and war crimes. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

U.S. intelligence tags Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte as threat to democracy in Asia

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018 photo, Filipino American Jeff DeGuia, 28, holds up family pictures at Unidad (Unity) Park in Los Angeles. DeGuia, 28, says it took his mother more than a decade to bring two sisters from the Philippines. “There’s definitely this idea you are not really complete without your huge family,” said DeGuia, whose grandfather came to the United States for an engineering job in the 1970s. In the background is Eliseo Art Silva's mural &quot;Gintong Kasaysayan, Gintong Pamana,&quot; A Glorious History, A Golden Legacy. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Trump revives push for limits on immigrants bringing family

By DEEPTI HAJELA and AMY TAXIN - Associated Press

U.S. military aircraft sit on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier anchors off Manila, Philippines, for a five-day port call along with guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018. Lt. Cmdr. Tim Hawkins told The Associated Press that American forces will continue to patrol the South China Sea wherever international law allows when asked if China's newly built islands could restrain them in the disputed waters. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

US Navy says China’s military buildup won’t stop patrols

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Feds say woman on private jet to Philippines smuggled cash

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Sanofi: No proof that vaccine linked to Philippines deaths

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In this Friday, Jan. 19, 2018 photo, Cedarcrest Middle School Anthony Najera, left, and Joaquin Vidal point at the screen after seeing Filipino students, whose portraits they drew for the nonprofit Memory Project, in Marysville, Wash. Students from the school watched a video showing Filipino students reactions to the Cedarcrest students' portraits. (Andy Bronson/The Herald via AP)

Marysville students draw portraits of Filipino children

By KARI BRAY - Associated Press

Lava continues to cascade down the slopes of Mayon volcano as seen from Legazpi city, Albay province, around 340 kilometers (210 miles) southeast of Manila, Philippines, at dawn Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. Glowing red lava was rolling down the slopes of a Philippine volcano as authorities maintain a warning of a possible hazardous eruption. (AP Photo/Earl Recamunda)

Glowing red lava causes more to flee from Philippine volcano

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

In this image made from video taken Dec. 24, 2017, people stand in the area damaged by storm Tembin in Lanao del Norte, southern Philippines. Thousands of villagers in the southern Philippines spent their Christmas morning in emergency shelters Monday as the region dealt with the aftermath of one of the deadliest storms to hit the country this year.(AP Photo)

Tropical Storm Tembin: Thousands spend Christmas in shelters after Philippine storm

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Storm leaves 75 dead, dozens missing in southern Philippines

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In this Wednesday, March 15, 2017, file photo, an Uber car drives through LaGuardia Airport in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Uber data breach spurs probes in Singapore and the Philippines

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Protesters carry torches as they march toward the Presidential Palace in Manila to mark the United Nations Declaration of International Human Rights Day Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017 in Manila, Philippines. Thousands of protesters accused President Duterte of human rights violations in his more than a year in office and are demanding his ouster. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Rodrigo Duterte extends martial law in the Philippines’ south over fears of ISIS return

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Dr. Ng Su-Peing, global medical head at Sanofi Pasteur, the manufacturer of dengue vaccine Dengvaxia, speaks at a news conference in suburban Taguig city, east of Manila, Philippines Monday, Dec. 4, 2017. The manufacturer of the dengue vaccine whose use was suspended by the Philippines last week after a study showed risks of severe cases in people without previous infection says it is working to resolve those fears. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Sanofi says it is cooperating with gov’t on dengue vaccine

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