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 ...

Manila said one fisheries bureau ship sustained damage and blasted China's coast guard for putting civilian lives "at risk." ...

including Sandy Cay, in the South China Sea, and its surrounding waters. The standoff comes days after the United States and the Philippines began their annual joint military drills in the ...

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, which China claims almost in its entirety. The flare-up ...

China’s latest action at Sandy Cay may be part of a broader strategy to expand its footprint in the West Philippine Sea - the term the Philippines uses for parts of the South China Sea within ...

The China Coast Guard (CCG) landed on a disputed reef in the South China Sea earlier this month to assert sovereignty over the island that the Philippines also claims, Chinese media reported on ...

Tensions surged near Sandy ... China slammed the mission as “illegal,” warning of further action, and accused the US of using the Philippines to provoke Beijing in the South China Sea.

China’s coastguard says Philippine vessel ‘dangerously’ approached its ship, resulting in a collision. The Philippines ...

The Philippine military on Sunday hit back at China by planting a flag at the disputed Sandy Cay reef days after ... over almost all of the South China Sea. It has engaged in several ...

China has concluded that coral reef degradation in the waters surrounding Sandy Cay – a disputed reef in the South China Sea – was due to a combination of natural phenomena and human ...