Nearly a quarter of global maritime trade goes through the South China Sea. In recent years, it’s become the site of clashes ...

The militaries of the U.S. and Philippines have carried out joint drills in waters adjacent to the South China Sea claimed by Beijing.

The back and forth over Sandy Cay is the latest flare-up in a long-running dispute over territory in the hotly contested South China Sea.

The Philippines said on Monday there was no truth to news reports that Beijing has seized control of a disputed reef in the South China Sea, after its personnel landed on the unoccupied sandbars and ...

China's coast guard said it took control measures against two Philippine vessels on Wednesday which it said "illegally intruded" into waters near Subi Reef and Sandy Cay in the disputed South China ...

China is building an extensive underwater surveillance system across the South China Sea, dubbed the “Underwater Great Wall.” ...

Vietnam’s protest over a reef in the South China Sea also claimed by the Philippines and China could become a “new flashpoint” in the longer term, analysts said, adding that Beijing might ...

China and the Philippines have each unfurled their national flags on tiny sandbars in the South China Sea, staking competing sovereignty claims in strategic waters seen as a potential flashpoint ...

By Sui-Lee Wee and Aie Balagtas See Sui-Lee Wee reported from Bangkok and Aie Balagtas See from Manila A tiny sandbar in the disputed South China Sea has become the latest flashpoint in tensions ...

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam on Saturday protested claims by China and the Philippines over a disputed reef in the South China Sea which it considers its own territory. Manila and Beijing traded ...

BEIJING-China's navy conducted a patrol in the South China Sea on April 29, saying that the Philippines has been creating “disturbances”, as the Filipino and US air forces conducted their own ...

SANDY Cay is an uninhabited sandbar in the South China Sea that is barely visible during high tide. Lately, however, it has loomed large in the ever-shifting geopolitical landscape of the disputed ...