Former US defence official Ely Ratner says it's time for the 'viable and essential' four-way defence pact. Security experts ...

China has claimed sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, overlapping the territorial claims of other regional ...

Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro engaged in a testy back-and-forth with Chinese officials at a Singapore ...

China has a "deficit of trust and credibility" it needs to overcome in order to mend its fraught defence ties with the ...

A formal alliance between Tokyo and Manila could lead to increasing tensions with Beijing in the Indo-Pacific region, an ...

China's foreign and defense ministries issued angry statements after Hegseth called the People's Republic a "threat" at a ...

Mr Gilberto Teodoro accused leaders in Beijing of grabbing territory in disputed waters. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

The Philippines and the European Union have agreed to start a dialogue on security and defence in order to tackle emerging ...

The executive secretary to Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says Marcos will retain Defense Secretary Gilberto ...

The U.S. Marine Corps' deployed the NMESIS ground-based launcher anti-ship weapon on a Philippine island during a war game.

The Philippine foreign ministry said on Thursday that China has no right to object to or interfere with its lawful and ...

SINGAPORE - A “deficit of trust” stands in the way of Beijing’s ability to resolve disputes such as overlapping claims in the ...