Both countries have planted flags on a collection of sand bars, extending the clash over the area between Beijing and Manila, ...

The competing claims are reigniting tensions in the South China Sea and coincide with joint military drills between the U.S. and the Philippines.

BEIJING -- China says six Filipinos landed on a tiny outcropping that both countries claim in the South China Sea, days after photos emerged of Chinese coast guard officers displaying a Chinese flag ...

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 ...

Sandy Cay lies just a few nautical miles from Thitu Island, the largest Philippine military outpost in the Spratly Islands.

Chinese media says coastguard units entered remote sandbank, known in China as Tiexian Reef, ‘to exercise sovereignty’ ...