The mission to deliver supplies to a rusting Philippines warship in the Second Thomas Shoal was fraught with tense moments when Chinese ships blocked the way of Philippine vessels.

China has intensified its harassment of much smaller Philippine vessels in disputed parts of the South China Sea. To level the playing field, the Philippines is turning to information warfare.

Filipinos are prevented from accessing Scarborough shoal, a traditional fishing ground that also serves as their shelter during storms, after it was permanently guarded by Chinese maritime guards. 

A Chinese coast guard ship cut off a Philippine patrol vessel in the disputed Spratly Islands, causing a near-collision. Beijing claims sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea.

After a two-year break, Philippine boxing legend Manny Pacquiao is returning to the ring at the age of 42, to take on American Errol Spence.

In a country obsessed with beauty pageants, basketball and boxing, the Philippines women's team hope to ignite interest in football when they make the nation's World Cup debut.

The Philippines and US military conduct live-fire exercises, as part of the joint "Balikatan" exercise. Ground and air assets were deployed to thwart a made-up scenario of a foreign invasion.

US and Philippine troops fire Javelin missiles at cars standing in as enemy vehicles in the allies' largest ever joint war games. The 2023 iteration of 'Balikatan' saw over 17,000 troops participating. 

The remains of Filipinos killed under Duterte's 'drug war' were exhumed as the leases on their graves expire and poor families struggle to renew the contracts.

Forensic pathologist Raquel Fortun puts together dozens of human bones like a puzzle in her search for truth about the violent deaths of drug war victims in the Philippines.

People in this village are terrified of the coronavirus, but the best weapons to protect their families -- isolation and sanitation -- are unreachable luxuries in the Manila shantytown they call home.

Philippine "jeepney" drivers ply the streets of Manila on foot begging for money to feed themselves and their families as coronavirus lockdowns paralyzed transportation and forced them off the road. 

Charities struggle to meet the ever-growing demand for food as millions of families across the Philippines go hungry after Covid-19 restrictions crippled the economy and thrown many out of work. 

Classrooms in the Philippines were empty as millions of school children hunkered down at home for a second year of remote lessons that experts fear will worsen an educational "crisis".

Forest ranger Kuhkan Maas has faced harassment and was even shot for protecting the Philippines' forest. The country is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for environmentalists.

Philippine mother-of-three Stella Sibonga is desperate to end a marriage she never wanted. But divorce in the Catholic-majority country is illegal, and a court annulment takes years.

Hundreds of families in Albay province are waiting for new homes after Typhoon Goni pounded the region. But many of them feel there is no safe place from the increasingly extreme weather.

After a tanker loaded with 800,000 litres of thick oil sank off the central island of Mindoro, authorities banned fishing, leaving thousands of fishermen wondering how long they can survive.

Victims of Typhoon Rai struggle to survive, many of them begging on the streets and relying on food handouts to have something on Christmas day, one of the most important holiday in the Philippines.

Typhoon Vamco hit the storm-battered Philippines in 2020, causing major flooding in Manila and other surrounding areas that paralyzed the transportation in the sprawling capital of 12 million people.

Even before his onions are fully grown, farmer Luis Angeles races to harvest and cash in on eye-watering prices for a vegetable that has become a luxury item in the Philippines.

As the war in Ukraine pushes up wheat prices and a weaker peso raises the cost of imported edible oil, many bakers are shrinking the size of a popular breakfast roll to cope with higher inflation.