The back and forth over Sandy Cay is the latest flare-up in a long-running dispute over territory in the hotly contested ...

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

The competing claims are reigniting tensions in the South China Sea and coincide with joint military drills between the U.S.

Chinese media says coastguard units entered remote sandbank, known in China as Tiexian Reef, ‘to exercise sovereignty’ ...

Tiny Sandy Cay is strategically vital due to proximity to largest island occupied by Philippines in Spratly archipelago ...

Three days later, a joint Philippines coast guard, navy and maritime police team headed on Sunday to the three sandbars and posed for a photo holding up their national flag. “This operation ...