THE CHINESE coastguard has seized control of a reef near a Philippine military base, threatening to inflame tensions in the ...

China has "implemented maritime governance and asserted its sovereign authority" over an uninhabited reef in the contested ...

BEIJING — China says six Filipinos landed on a tiny outcropping that both countries claim in the South China Sea , days after ...

Chinese media says coastguard units entered remote sandbank, known in China as Tiexian Reef, ‘to exercise sovereignty’ ...

The standoff over Sandy Cay, which lies close to military outposts built by both Beijing and Manila, was the latest between ...

China’s official declaration of sovereignty over the land near the Philippines will raise fears that Beijing intends to build ...