SEREMBAN, July 7 — Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan confirmed that Malaysia has sent a diplomatic note to the United Nations (UN) stressing the country’s sovereignty following the Philippines’ claim towards Sabah.

REMBAU, July 4 — The Philippine government has expressed its appreciation to Malaysia for its role in negotiating peace in the southern region of the country, which is set to gain autonomous status following elections scheduled for next year.

MABINI, July 3  — Green campaigners in a diving resort in the Philippines have come up with the town’s shores: offering to swap a bag of rice for every sack of trash gathered by local residents.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 1 — The World Bank has appointed Zafer Mustafaoglu as its country director for the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei, effective today.

KUALA LUMPUR, 30 June — Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan will undertake his inaugural official visit to the Philippines on July 1.

MANILA, June 24 — The Philippines will continue with resupply missions to troops on an atoll in a disputed part of the South China Sea despite Chinese Coast Guard vessels deliberately disrupting a mission last week, said its Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro.

HANOI, June 23 — United States (US) Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink has said the situation in the South China Sea is deeply concerning and that China's recent actions in the disputed waterway are "deeply destabilising".

MANILA, June 18 — A Philippine Navy sailor suffered "serious injury" after what the country's military called "intentional-high speed ramming" by the Chinese Coast Guard during a resupply mission in the South China Sea.

MANILA, Jun 16 — The Philippines filed a claim with the United Nations (UN) yesterday to an extended continental shelf (ECS) in the South China Sea, a waterway where it has had increasingly confrontational maritime disputes with China.

MANILA, June 15 — The Philippine military chief urged Filipino fishermen to keep fishing in the country’s exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea, despite China’s new coast guard rules allowing it to detain trespassers without trial, which take effect on June 15.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 12 — Works Minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi is hopeful that the diplomatic ties between Malaysia and the Philippines will continue to strengthen and reach new heights, benefiting both governments and their people.

MANILA, June 11 — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said the country should be prepared for any eventuality because of more pronounced external threats driven by heightened tension in the Indo-Pacific.

MANILA, June 6 — Four Filipino police officers who are suspected members of a kidnapping syndicate were arrested for the abduction of four foreigners in Pasay City.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 6 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has called for aggressive diplomatic engagement to resolve the tensions in territorial waters between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea.

SINGAPORE, May 31 — The Shangri-La Dialogue summit began today with the United States (US) and China's defence chiefs holding their first face-to-face meeting in two years and the Philippines' president set to give a speech expected to touch on the sensitive South China Sea claims.

MANILA/BEIJING, May 14 — The Philippines said yesterday it would keep a closer guard on reefs, shoals and islets in its exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea, as Beijing denied accusations of building an artificial island in the disputed waters.

MANILA, May 13 — The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is committed to sustaining a presence in a disputed area of the South China Sea to ensure China does not carry out reclamation activities at Sabina Shoal, its spokesman said today.

MANILA, May 12 — The Philippines has said it deployed ships to a disputed area in the South China Sea, where it accused China of building "an artificial island" in an escalating maritime row.

MANILA, May 10 — The Philippines' national security adviser has called for Chinese diplomats to be expelled over an alleged leak of a phone conversation with a Filipino admiral in a significant escalation of a bitter row over the South China Sea.

MANILA, May 10 — Numerous countries including the United States and China have expressed interest in collaborating with the Philippines for mining opportunities particularly in nickel, its environment minister said on Friday.