Philippine, Chinese top diplomats agree to ease South China Sea tensions

VIENTIANE -- Foreign ministers of the Philippines and China met on Friday evening in Vientiane and agreed to cool simmering tensions in the South China Sea in line with their earlier provisional agreement on resupply missions in Manila's outposts in the disputed waterway.

China's Wang Yi and the Philippines' Enrique Manalo talked for an hour, after participating in a dinner organized for top diplomats present in Laos for an annual meeting of top diplomats from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its partner countries.