PCG ships deployed in West PH Sea

TWO Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) ships have been deployed to an area in the West Philippine Sea where a Philippine Navy ship was "shadowed" by Chinese maritime militia vessels last week.

Philippine authorities have yet to confirm this, but American defense and security expert Raymond Powell said based on automatic tracking system (ATS), one of the Parola-class patrol vessels of the PCG, the BRP Malapascua, was monitored leaving Buliluyan Port in Palawan Friday morning, February 3. It stayed briefly off Loaita Bank before proceeding to Pag-asa (Thitu) Island.