THE Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Tuesday said it is prepared to respond and help a civilian-led sail in the South China Sea (SCS) after Chinese Coast Guard vessels shadowed and challenged ...

Nearly a quarter of global maritime trade goes through the South China Sea. In recent years, it’s become the site of clashes ...

In a vast storage room at a nickel plant in Hachinohe, northern Japan, a group of men in suits and hard hats are squatting on ...

China claims most of the South China Sea in defiance of a 2016 arbitral ruling that had dismissed its assertions as excessive and unlawful. Chinese maritime forces have recently advanced claims in the ...

a group of small sandbanks in the waterway’s Spratly Islands, after a Chinese state media report suggested the area had been seized. The Philippines and China have been engaged in months of ...

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam on Saturday protested claims by China and the Philippines over a disputed reef in the South China Sea which it ... in the waterway's Spratly Islands, after a Chinese ...

Truong Sa is the Vietnamese name for the Spratly Islands ... China claims more than 90% of the potentially energy-rich South China Sea via a U-shaped "nine-dash line" on its maps that stretches ...

The satellite images below show ... China has expanded hundreds of miles south by building artificial islands over underwater reefs in the Paracel and Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

Under authoritarian President Xi Jinping, Beijing has continued to expand its reach into the South China Sea - strategically vital and resource-rich waters ...

The Philippines said on Monday there was no truth to news reports that Beijing has seized control of a disputed reef in the South China Sea, after its personnel landed on the unoccupied sandbars and ...

Taipei | Washington | China has seized a disputed reef just kilometres away from the Philippines’ most important military outpost in the South China Sea ... in the Spratly Islands, showing ...