The Chinese coastguard has seized a tiny sandbank in the South China Sea, state media has reported, in an escalation of a ...

South Korea will raise China's construction of sea structures off the west coast of the Korean Peninsula in a dialogue with ...

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) had welcomed the inclusion of the West Philippine Sea (WPS) on Google Maps, noting ...

New satellite imagery, supplied exclusively to Newsweek, offers a first glimpse of a large Chinese sea rig that has raised ...

The U.S. Marine Corps' Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, or NMESIS, will conduct simulated fires missions in the Luzon Strait.

Manila uses "West Philippine Sea" for waters in its maritime zone, where China's expanding presence challenges the U.S. ally.

Social media had been abuzz since Monday as netizens noticed that “West Sea” (WPS) was appearing prominently on Google Maps.

Five underwater drones found by Filipino fishermen were capable of aiding “underwater warfare” and at least one sent signals to China, the Philippine Navy has said. At such a critical moment in US ...

AFP journalists who visited Google Maps last year discovered the name West Philippine Sea was visible only if searched by ...

And others are scouring ancient maps and legends for justification ... asserted that Chinese ownership of the entire South China Sea was based on ancient trade and tribute links.

China claims almost the entire South China Sea, despite overlapping claims by ... based on its historic maps, have no basis under international law, a decision China does not recognise.

Civilian exploration may be the official mission of a Chinese deep-sea ... China’s naval ambitions. China’s navy is probably interested in seabed mapping for its own future submarine operations, and ...