1.   Philippine officials claim the Chinese have built a platform on the Panganiban Reef and detained Filipino fishermen briefly last month.

2.   Philippine officials claim the Chinese have built a platform on the Panganiban Reef and that they detained Filipino fishermen briefly last month.

3.   Philippine officials claim the Chinese have built a platform on Panganiban Reef and that they detained Filipino fishermen briefly last month.

4.   Beijing claimed that Filipino fishermen later landed on the shoal, destroyed Chinese markers and hoisted a Philippine flag.

5.   Beijing denied Chinese soldiers detained Filipino fishermen and said the structures built on the reef were merely shelters for Chinese fishermen.

6.   China will allow Filipino fishermen to take shelter in concrete platforms it has built on a disputed South China Sea reef, Philippine Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon said Thursday.

7.   Eighty-one Filipino fishermen will be tried in Irian Jaya for illegal fishing in Indonesian waters, the official Antara news agency reported Monday.

8.   Filipino fishermen have rescued eight Indonesians aboard a fishing boat drifting near a Philippine-claimed territory in the disputed Spratly Islands, the military said Thursday.

9.   Filipino fishermen later removed the Chinese flag and markers and hoisted a Philippine flag on the shoal, Philippine officials said.

10.   Filipino fishermen are unlikely to use the structures, though, because it would require asking the Chinese for permission.