The Philippines criticised a "reckless" report from Chinese state media on Monday, which claimed that a contested reef in the ...

PALAWAN, Philippines – U.S., Filipino and Australian troops dug into beach dunes and unleashed a barrage of firepower – ...

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

IN RECENT days, China and the Philippines have put on view, in what observers described as competing photo opportunities, ...

The Philippines said on Monday there was no truth to news reports that Beijing has seized control of a disputed reef in the ...

The Philippines announced on April 27, it carried out a ‘Inter-Agency Maritime Operation’ near the three cays close to ...

BEIJING (AP) — The Philippines on Monday rejected China's claim to a group of three sandbars in the South China Sea , after recent displays by both sides of their national flags on the uninhabited ...

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

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

China and the Philippines have each unfurled their national flags on tiny sandbars in the South China Sea, staking competing sovereignty claims in strategic waters seen as a potential flashpoint for ...