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

The scale of Vietnam’s island building is second only to China’s ... a major impact on negotiations for the ASEAN–China Code of Conduct (COC) on the South China Sea, which have been stalled for two ...

Of them all, Vietnam has been by far the most proactive in asserting its own sovereignty claims in the South China Sea. These center on the Paracel Islands-referred to as Hoang Sa in Vietnam-in ...

The island Vietnam has developed the most is Barque ... This made it the largest reef under Vietnamese control in the South China Sea. In total, CSIS says Vietnam has reclaimed 20 reefs with ...

China’s official declaration of sovereignty over the land near the Philippines will raise fears that Beijing intends to build ...

Beijing's focus on claiming sovereignty over Sandy Cay reef in the South China Sea adds to fears over a clash with Manila.

The day the Vietnam War ended has become a high-profile celebration in Vietnam. But debates over the name of the April 30 ...

Seoul says the structure, an old French oil rig with a helicopter landing pad, is effectively an artificial island designed ...

The Philippines on Sunday sent navy, coastguard and maritime police officers to Sandy Cay and two neighbouring sandbanks in the Spratly Islands to “uphold the country’s sovereignty, sovereign rights ...

State media reports CCG officers ‘exercising maritime control’ on one of the reefs in the Spratly Islands also claimed by ...

China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia ... would establish "regional sovereignty" over the islands in the South China Sea among the six claimants, allowing them to collectively manage the islands ...