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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine government personnel transported food and other supplies Saturday to a fiercely disputed shoal occupied by a Filipino navy contingent but closely guarded by Beijing’s forces in the South China Sea and no confrontations were reported, Philippine officials said.
The Philippines said it carried out a resupply and rotation mission to troops on a South China Sea reef Saturday without “untoward incidents”, more than a month after a violent clash with Chinese forces in the area.
Divers will attempt on Saturday to inspect the hull of a Philippine tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil that sank off Manila as authorities race to avert an ecological catastrophe, the coastguard said.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — There is no indication that a big cargo of industrial fuel oil stored in a tanker that sank in stormy weather in Manila Bay has started to leak, the Philippine coast guard said Friday, and plans are being firmed up to try to siphon off the highly toxic shipment to prevent a major spill that could reach the bustling capital.
VIENTIANE -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday that Beijing does not take kindly to other countries meddling in tensions with the Philippines in the South China Sea, hitting at Manila's allies, including the U.S. and Japan, during bilateral talks between Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China in Vientiane.
BEIJING (AP) — What was Typhoon Gaemi has weakened to a severe tropical storm and headed toward inland China on Friday after making landfall the previous evening on the east coast.
BEIJING — Typhoon Gaemi lashed towns on China's coastal Fujian province on Friday (July 26) with heavy rains and strong winds as the most powerful storm to hit the country this year began its widely watched trek into the populous interior.
Typhoon Gaemi churned over southeastern China on Friday, with the local authorities warning that the storm, which left a trail of destruction in Taiwan and the Philippines, would bring torrential rain and flooding.