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Thitu Island, also known as Đảo Thị Tứ (Vietnamese: Đảo Thị Tứ); Pag-asa Island (Filipino: Pulo ng Pag-asa, lit. 'Island of Hope'); Zhongye Dao (Chinese: 中业岛/中業島; pinyin: Zhōngyè Dǎo), having an area of 37.2 hectares (92 acres), it is the second largest of the naturally occurring [4] island in Spratly Islands.
The committee is named after "West Philippine Sea", a designation by the Philippine government on portions of the South China Sea. Members, 18th Congress ...
Note: In September 2012, Philippine President Benigno Aquino III signed Administrative Order No. 29, mandating that all government agencies use the name "West Philippine Sea" to refer to the parts of the South China Sea within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone, and tasked the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) to use the name in official maps.
Map of various countries' presence in the Spratly Islands as of 2015. Territorial disputes in the South China Sea involve conflicting island and maritime claims in the South China Sea made by Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, the People's Republic of China (PRC), Taiwan (Republic of China/ROC), and Vietnam.
A Chinese Coast Guard vessel blocks a Philippine Coast Guard ship on its way to a resupply mission at Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea on March 5, 2024.
Saola continued to intensify and began to move southwestwards over the Philippine Sea east of the Batanes Islands. Saola later began in a process of rapid intensification where it reached into a category-4 typhoon on August 27. [155] After it executed a south-southeastward turn over the Philippine Sea, Saola weaken back into a category-2 typhoon.
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) (Filipino: Tanod Baybayin ng Pilipinas) is the third [4] armed uniformed service [5] of the country attached to the Philippines' Department of Transportation, [4] tasked primarily with enforcing laws within Philippine waters, conducting maritime security operations, safeguarding life and property at sea, and protecting marine environment and resources; similar ...
The Philippines said China has repeatedly fired flares at its aircraft over the South China Sea this week. It said that in one incident on August 19, a fighter jet fired flares just 15 meters from ...