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China accuses Philippine plane of airspace intrusion in South China Sea

Rank
Running
36h
Updated
8h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
9
Regions
2
Countries
8
Languages
4

+0

Arab News Saudi Arabia · English 4 Oct, 10:33 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

Read it also in Tiếng Việt (1) · ไทย (1) · 中文 (1) · +2 languages

Read at Arab News

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 36 hours.

5 10
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Arab News, 4 Oct, 10:33 UTC.
  2. Second country: Malaysia, with Malay Mail.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Malay Mail.
  4. Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 5 Oct, 12:00 UTC.
  5. Now: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

37 of 37 hours

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The 8 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

89%

  • Asia-Pacific 8 outlets · 7 countries · 89%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%

First movers

  1. Arab News 4 Oct, 10:33 UTC
  2. Malay Mail +1h 40m
  3. Liberty Times +4h 41m
  4. Free Malaysia Today +25h 28m
  5. Hong Kong Free Press +25h 45m

Latest arrivals

  1. MGR Online 5 Oct, 14:48 UTC
  2. CNA 5 Oct, 13:26 UTC
  3. Thanh Niên 5 Oct, 12:59 UTC
  4. The Manila Times 5 Oct, 12:20 UTC
  5. Hong Kong Free Press 5 Oct, 12:18 UTC

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 8 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 9 outlets, 2 state-owned, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 7: Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam. Middle East 1: Saudi Arabia. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article Arab News, 4 Oct 2026, 10:33 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 10:50 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 14:48 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Conflict & security. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
1.46, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
4 Oct 2026 249 2.77 3 3 3 3 4.1

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Started 4 Oct, 10:50 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 14:48 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 8 outlets

  • MGR Online Thailand 5 Oct, 14:48 UTC
    จีนและฟิลิปปินส์โวยกันไปมา กรณีเครื่องบินเผชิญหน้ากันในทะเลจีนใต้
  • CNA Singapore 5 Oct, 13:26 UTC
    China, Philippines trade accusations over South China Sea aircraft encounter
  • Thanh Niên Vietnam 5 Oct, 12:59 UTC
    Trung Quốc phát cảnh báo tới Philippines liên quan Biển Đông
  • The Manila Times Philippines 5 Oct, 12:20 UTC
    China says PH plane 'intruded' airspace over disputed waters
  • Hong Kong Free Press Hong Kong 5 Oct, 12:18 UTC
    China says Philippine plane ‘intruded’ airspace over disputed waters
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 5 Oct, 12:00 UTC
    China says Philippine plane ‘intruded’ airspace over disputed waters
  • Liberty Times Taiwan 4 Oct, 15:13 UTC
    南海衝突再升溫!共軍殲16危險逼近菲機 中國海警護航非法漁船
  • Malay Mail Malaysia 4 Oct, 12:13 UTC
    Philippines says China harassed its forces twice in 24 hours at South China Sea flashpoints

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Arab News Saudi Arabia 4 Oct, 10:33 UTC
    Philippines accuses China of harassing patrols in disputed waters
Read at Arab News

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