(Photo: AFP) The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) successfully brought food supplies and a new batch of elite Marines to the BRP Sierra Madre (LS-57) to guard the military’s outpost in Ayungin ...

From February to June, a combination of CCG and CMM vessels repeatedly confronted Philippine efforts to resupply its military forces on the BRP Sierra Madre, an old naval vessel grounded on Second ...

Raquel “Rockey” Smeir startedMy Friends Café in Sierra Madre, California ... “It’s like reopening a new business, but this time with valuable experience and lessons learned,” she ...

Pag-asa cays in ‘degraded state’ over new island-building activities ... conducted a rotation and reprovisioning mission to BRP Sierra Madre, the grounded ship that serves as an outpost ...

Earlier this week, a Philippine National Security official said China was “pushing us to the wall” as he indicated that Manila was considering pursuing a new lawsuit against ... resupply missions to ...

The decrepit BRP Sierra Madre, a rusting World War II-era vessel, was run aground at Ayungin Shoal in 1999 in response to China's occupation of Philippine-claimed Mischief Reef in 1995. "The two sides ...

Filipino forces delivered food and supplies to the detachment on board the grounded BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal without untoward incidents, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Friday.

The scenario centered on a contingency involving a crisis at Second Thomas Shoal, a reef that is occupied by approximately a dozen Philippine marines deployed on the BRP Sierra Madre, a dilapidated ...

The last such talks were held in July 2024, when both parties reached a provisional arrangement on the Philippines' resupply missions to the BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal. At the talks in ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines and China have agreed to uphold the “provisional understanding” allowing Manila’s rotation and resupply (RORE) missions to BRP Sierra Madre at Ayungin Shoal at ...