China’s coast guard blamed the Philippines for the collision, saying the vessels entered the waters illegally without China’s permission and landed personnel on Sandy Cay, it said, using the ...

The Philippines’ South China Sea task force on Sunday said military and coast guard personnel carried out an operation in Sandy Cay to reinforce Manila’s “routine and lawful exercise of ...

Last month, China said its Coast Guard had landed on Sandy Cay as part of operations to exercise its sovereignty. The Philippines has denied Beijing has seized control of the disputed reef.

Senator Jinggoy Estrada on Friday called on government agencies to verify a report that Chinese militia vessels bloced a ...

It’s hard to call the collision of two multi-thousand-ton military ships “fortunate,” but that’s exactly what analysts are saying about the incident in the South China Sea this week that left a China ...

China claims sovereignty over nearly all the South China Sea, including parts of the exclusive economic zones of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.

Pag-asa Island lies within the Kalayaan Island Group and is part of the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ). China also claims the area and has maintained a regular presence around nearby ...

James Borton is a non-resident senior fellow at Johns Hopkins Strategic Advanced International Studies Foreign Policy Institute and the author of "Harvesting the Waves: How Blue Parks Shape Policy, ...