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

The Philippines pushed back by unfurling its own flag at disputed Sandy Cay, condemning China's "illegal presence." ...

The move came three days after the Beijing-owned media published photos of Chinese coast guard officers on Tiexian Reef in mid-April holding up a Chinese flag and cleaning up plastic bottles and ...

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

BEIJING (AP) — China says six Filipinos landed on a tiny outcropping that both countries claim in the South China Sea , days after photos emerged of Chinese coast guard officers displaying a Chinese ...

China and the Philippines have each unfurled their national flags on tiny sandbars in the South China Sea, staking competing ...

AP The move came a day after China said it had “implemented maritime control and exercised sovereign jurisdiction” over the reef by showing its own flag there – the first such official ...

The Philippines, which disputes China's claim to the sandbank, responds by releasing a photo of its own forces on another.

Vietnam mounted its biggest-ever celebration of the fall of Saigon on its 50th anniversary Wednesday, including Chinese ...

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