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The Latest Breaking News from Thitu

Chinese coast guard fires water cannon and rams Philippine vessel in disputed South China Sea

Video issued by the Philippine coast guard shows a Chinese coast guard ship firing a water cannon

The Independent UK · Oct 12, 2025

Filipino forces and villagers struggle to live in China's shadow in disputed waters

Filipino forces and villagers have been struggling to live in Beijing's shadow in the disputed South China while fighting isolation on remote islands

The Independent UK · Jun 10, 2025

‘As long as we’re here, it’s ours’: the island fishing community on the frontline of South China Sea tensions

Intensifying struggles with China are playing out on the doorstep of the almost 400 Philippine civilians on remote Thitu Island

The Guardian - UK · Aug 26, 2024

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On a remote island, a test of wills between the Philippines and China

About 250 Filipinos live on Thitu Island, the largest and most inhabited island of the Spratlys, in the South China Sea. But Chinese ships are never far away.

WEKU · Apr 11, 2024

Philippines opens a coast guard surveillance base in the South China Sea to watch Chinese vessels

The Philippine coast guard has opened a new surveillance base on a remote island occupied by Filipino forces in the disputed South China Sea as Manila ramps up efforts to counter China’s increasingly aggressive actions in the strategic waterway

The Independent UK · Dec 1, 2023

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