Sansha, set up to assert China’s claims in contested waters, gets new map and postcodes days after Manila enacts laws on ...

The South China Sea, a vast and resource-rich area, has been the subject of intense territorial disputes for years. Countries ...

The Chinese military conducted a joint sea and air patrol around the Scarborough Shoal on Wednesday amid continuing tensions ...

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. last week signed into law the so-called Maritime Zones Act. The law effectively gives up the ...

UPDATES with island retaking exercises taking place in the Spratlys The Philippines is aiming for a "persistent presence" in the South China Sea, a senior military official said Wednesday ...

The Spratlys are part of the three archipelagos of the South China Sea, comprising more than 30,000 islands and reefs and which so complicates geography, governance and economics in that region of ...

While Vietnam has been enlarging its presence across a remote collection of rocks, reefs and islets called the Spratlys since 2021, the country is on pace this year to create more than 1,000 acres ...

The system, purported to have advanced counter-stealth capabilities, could challenge how US forces operate in the region.

China has reportedly deployed an advanced surface-to-air missile system to one of the disputed islands it controls in the South China Sea. China occupies seven islands in the chain. No other nation is ...

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

Hu said Vietnam - which occupies the most features among claimant states in the Spratlys - had been actively reclaiming land on 11 of those features and showed no signs of slowing down.

Two new Philippine maritime laws that drew instant protest from Beijing could help Manila settle long-standing territorial ...