MANILA: The Philippines said it had won support from Vietnam, Indonesia and Brunei for a plan to ease tensions in the South China Sea which it intends to present at a regional meeting this week.
China and several of its South-East Asian neighbours are embroiled in increasingly bitter territorial disputes over the strategic sea, which Beijing claims almost in its entirety.
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