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

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

Sandy Cay lies just a few nautical miles from Thitu Island, the largest Philippine military outpost in the Spratly Islands.

China and the Philippines on Monday defended their claims to a disputed reef in the South China Sea, after Manila accused ...

The Philippines on Monday slammed an "irresponsible" Chinese state media report claiming a disputed reef in the South China ...

BEIJING (AP) — The Philippines on Monday rejected China's claim to a group of three sandbars in the South China Sea, after ...

The mock battle scenarios under the annual Balikatan military exercises between the United States and the Philippines over ...

The Philippines used to host two of the largest U.S. Navy and Air Force bases outside the American mainland. The bases were shut down in the early 1990s after the Philippine Senate rejected an ...

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

The two countries have previously jostled over Sandy Cay, known as Tiexian Reef in Chinese and Pag-asa Cays in the ...

Philippine forces are present on Thitu Island and Manila inaugurated a Coast Guard monitoring base there in 2023 in an effort to counter what it describes as Chinese aggression. On Monday (April ...