Vietnam has formally protested recent territorial claims made by both China and the Philippines over Second Thomas Shoal, ...

China's long-running territorial dispute with the Philippines, a U.S. defense treaty ally, in the South China Sea has ... at Sabina Shoal, similar to its deployment at Second Thomas Shoal, where ...

China claims more than 80 per cent of the South China Sea as its territory - demarcated on its maps as a nine-dash line, or, more recently, as a 10-dash line. The Second Thomas Shoal falls within ...

Faced with a country indifferent to reputational costs, Manila’s campaign to illuminate China’s gray-zone activities in the South China Sea is ... mission to Second Thomas Shoal suggests ...

China has rapidly expanded its military and has become increasingly assertive in pursuing its territorial claims in the South ... Philippines. Sabina is near the Second Thomas Shoal, another ...

MANILA--The Philippines reaffirmed its position on Sabina Shoal in ... a beached naval vessel in Second Thomas shoal China claims sovereignty over most of the China Sea, overlapping into maritime ...

China and the Philippines accused each other on Tuesday of dangerous manoeuvres in a hotly disputed shoal in the South China Sea, in the latest confrontation over the waterway.

The Philippines has successfully carried out its seventh resupply mission to a military outpost on the disputed Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea without Chinese interference, but ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's ... manoeuvres at Second Thomas Shoal, an atoll within Manila's 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea. China claims almost the entire ...