But now, 56-year-old Drio said, it has become increasingly difficult and dangerous to fish at the atoll -- some 200 km (124 miles) off the Filipino coast -- because of aggressive action by China ...

It took four Chinese Coast Guard vessels and one "gray ship" to keep a tiny Filipino fishing boat from casting its nets in ...

With tensions rising in the South China Sea, Filipino fishermen say they face ruin as China blocks them from key fishing ground. Ever since he was a teenager, Filipino fisherman Rony Drio has been ...

Still, Filipino fishermen continue to exercise caution when venturing out into the waters surrounding Scarborough Shoal, long a traditional fishing ground located some 124km west of Masinloc.

MANILA--A Filipino fishing boat captain protested on Tuesday the Chinese coast guard’s aggression in the disputed South China Sea, where he asserted that Chinese officers drove him and his men ...

A workers' party-list group on Thursday called for the immediate ratification of an international convention ensuring decent ...

A number of Filipino migrant fishers who worked in Chinese tuna ships in the Southwest Indian Ocean have attested to human ...

The AFP Western Command is investigating an incident in October where the China Coast Guard allegedly blocked a group of ...

MANILA--A flotilla of about 100 mostly small fishing boats led by Filipino activists sailed Wednesday to a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, where Beijing’s coast guard and suspected ...

Both China and the Philippines claim Scarborough Shoal and other outcroppings in the South China Sea. China seized the shoal, ...

China has held sea and air combat drills at disputed Scarborough Shoal, an uninhabited area of reefs and rocks it had seized ...

"These Chinese fishermen use cyanide," Nazario Briguera, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, said on Saturday, per a translation from Filipino by The Philippine Star.