China and the Philippines have each unfurled their national flags on tiny sandbars in the South China Sea, staking competing ...

The China Coast Guard (CCG) spokesperson Liu Dejun said ... Resources on Friday indicates that the coverage areas of reef-building corals on the reef flats of Tiexian Jiao and Niu'e Jiao in ...

MANILA, Philippines — There is “no truth whatsoever” to the China Coast Guard (CCG)’s declaration ... especially when it comes to reclamation and building activities,” Trinidad said.

Over the past two decades, China has occupied a number of obscure reefs and atolls far from its shoreline across the South China Sea, building ... claimed that China Coast Guard “implemented ...