Analysts say removing Manila's coastguard ship from South China Sea hotspot an 'option', but miscalculation risks drawing in the US Beijing appears to be carefully weighing plans to tow a ...

After the Philippines recalled the BRP Teresa Magbanua from Sabina Shoal earlier this month, Beijing said its coastguard would continue to "carry out consistent law enforcement activities" in the ...

The Philippines suspects China is attempting to reclaim land at Sabina Shoal. It has pointed to underwater mounds of crushed coral on Sabina's sandbars, which its coast guard filmed, saying ...

Known as Xianbin Reef in China and Escoda Shoal in the Philippines, Sabina Shoal has been a flashpoint since April, when Manila deployed one of its most advanced coastguard ships, the BRP Teresa ...

The Philippines said it was sending a vessel to Sabina Shoal to replace a coast guard ship that returned to port on Sunday after a five-month deployment at the contested feature in the South China ...

The shoal has become the latest flashpoint in China and the Philippines' long-running territorial feud. This August 31 satellite image shows Sabina Shoal in the South China Sea's Spratly Islands.

Sabina Shoal lies within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone, an area extending 200 nautical miles from the coast, where maritime law grants the country sole access to natural resources.

The clash at the Sabina Shoal shows China has “a total disregard for our maritime rights” and little interest in finding or abiding by a negotiated compromise, Mercado said.

China could tow Philippine ship from disputed Sabina Shoal, but is it worth the backlash? Analysts say removing Manila’s coastguard ship from South China Sea hotspot an ‘option’, but ...

Known as Xianbin Reef in China and Escoda Shoal in the Philippines, Sabina Shoal has been a flashpoint since April, when Manila deployed one of its most advanced coastguard ships, the BRP Teresa ...

The Philippines suspects China is attempting to reclaim land at Sabina Shoal. It has pointed to underwater mounds of crushed coral on Sabina's sandbars, which its coast guard filmed, saying ...