The flare-up began last week when a Chinese state-owned newspaper posted exclusive photos of coast guard officers on Sandy Cay from mid-April, including one of them holding up a Chinese flag. Three ...

BEIJING — The Philippines on Monday rejected China’s claim to a group of three sandbars in the South China Sea, after recent displays by both sides of their national flags on the uninhabited ...

SUBIC BAY, PHILIPPINES >> A unit of Hawaii Marines is in the Philippines fielding new weapons for the first time amid ...

China's been building artificial islands in the South China Sea over the last decade to expand its control in the area.

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines deployed fighter jets alongside naval vessels to the West Philippine Sea on Tuesday, April 29, in a joint maritime exercise with troops from the United ...

An image posted by Philippines Coast Guard spokesperson, Jay Tarriela, on X showed five officers holding the national flag on a white sandbar. In a statement late on Sunday night, a spokesperson ...

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 ...

A Philippine statement said that a joint ... of Chinese coast guard officers on Tiexian Reef in mid-April holding up a Chinese flag and cleaning up plastic bottles and other debris.

Members of the Philippine Navy, Philippine Coast Guard and Philippine National Police Maritime Group hold the Philippine flag on Tiexian Reef in the South China Sea on Sunday. Photo: National Task ...

Filipino personnel from the inter-agency maritime operation also took photos and videos of themselves landing on the sandbars and holding a Philippine flag to show that there were no signs that China ...