A photo exhibition and communication campaign on Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) islands was held recently at the ...

Retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio is calling on the Philippine government to take urgent legal ...

Vietnam is following in the footsteps of rival Spratly Islands claimant China in building military-purposed infrastructure, according to AMTI.

China's military said it had expelled three Philippine aircraft from the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea on Thursday, marking the latest in a series of dangerous aerial encounters ...

Chinese government study says laser satellite data reveals harbour deep enough for advanced warships on largest reef in the Spratly Islands.

China draws up new map for southernmost city amid tension over disputed islands with Philippines Map for southern Sansha city has labels for Paracel and Spratly districts which hadn’t appeared ...

The city comprises two disputed island chains – the Paracels and the Spratlys, known respectively as the Xisha and Nansha Islands in Chinese – and an undersea atoll.

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three years China built seven new bases in the Spratly Islands, three of them ...

Vietnam has been ramping up its dredging and landfill work in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, creating another 330 acres of land since December last year, a U.S. think tank said in a ...

The contested area includes the Paracel Islands, the Spratly Islands, the Pratas Island, Vereker Banks, the Macclesfield Bank, and the Scarborough Shoal – roughly 90 percent of the South China Sea.

The Spratly Islands have once again emerged as point of tension between China and the Philippines -- particularly the Second Thomas Shoal, where the Philippines deliberately grounded a warship in ...

He said the other map of the Philippines commonly used to refer to its territory, the Velarde map, only includes the Second Thomas Shoal and Scarborough Shoal, not the Spratlys. The Spratly Islands ...