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

Chinese coastguard officers have seized a strip of land in the South China Sea in a major escalation of a territorial dispute ...

The Philippines and China have each unfurled their flags on a disputed reef ... when Chinese coast guard ships expelled Philippine vessels attempting to land on Sandy Cay, according to Chinese ...

Philippine Marines, National Police officers and Coast Guard members landed on three contested South China Sea features today ...

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

The standoff over Sandy Cay, which lies close to military outposts built by both Beijing and Manila, was the latest between ...