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

The two countries have previously jostled over Sandy Cay, known as Tiexian Reef in Chinese and Pag-asa Cays in the ...

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 ...

BEIJING — China says six Filipinos landed on a tiny outcropping that both countries claim in the South China Sea , days after ...

A Chinese coast guard statement described the Philippine landing on ... Reef in mid-April holding up a Chinese flag and cleaning up plastic bottles and other debris. In this photo provided by ...

China and the Philippines have each unfurled their national flags on tiny ... them a Philippine flag to pose for photos on the sandbars on early Sunday morning. “The other objective of our ...

said they had picked up plastic bottles and other debris and displayed the Chinese national flag “to assert sovereignty.” Jonathan Malaya, the assistant director general of the Philippine ...