The Chinese military has landed on the uninhabited disputed Sandy Cay reef in the South China Sea. It is located just a few ...

West Philippine Sea is the name given by an administrative order (AO) of then President Benigno Aquino III to Philippine territorial waters west of the country. Aquino’s AO said West Philippine Sea ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former President Benigno Aquino III issued Administrative Order No. 29 in 2012, officially naming the maritime areas ... world maps. West Philippine Sea different from the South China Sea.

with the South China Sea naming convention slightly further northwest of that. The West Philippine Sea refers to the maritime areas along the western side of the Philippine archipelago which are ...

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

A Google Maps scan on Monday of the body of water directly ... according to AFP journalists who kept screenshots of earlier searches. The name South China Sea remains visible to the north and west of ...