First of two parts PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. last week signed into law the so-called Maritime Zones Act. The law ...

Hu said Vietnam - which occupies the most features among claimant states in the Spratlys - had been actively reclaiming land ...

Filipino troops conducted a military exercise in the South China Sea on Wednesday, November 6, simulating a scenario in which they retook control of a feature in the Spratlys Islands. Chinese vessels ...

China and Vietnam have conflicting claims in the Spratlys, a group of South China Sea islands that Beijing calls the Nanshas and Hanoi refers to as Quần đảo Trường Sa. "Vietnam has ...

Both the Philippines and Taiwan already have airstrips in the Spratlys —on Thitu Island for the Philippines and Taiping Island for Taiwan. The Spratly Islands encompass over 750 islands ...

The most contested features are around the Spratly archipelago, where China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei and the ...

Beijing claims almost the entire South China Sea, including the Spratlys, which is also claimed in part by the Philippines. The sea is a rich fishing ground that is believed to hold vast oil and ...

Although the purpose of this work is not clear, it is contributing to an atmosphere of escalating regional tension. The Spratlys are not controlled by any single country but fall variously within the ...

China claims almost the entire South China Sea, including the Spratlys, which is also claimed in part by the Philippines. There are also competing claims by Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei and Taiwan.