An isolated reef in the Spratly Islands holds the key to improved Chinese response times in the region, a new study says.

This area includes much of China’s nine-dash line claims, encompassing the Paracel, Spratly and Zhongsha Islands and commonly ...

Countries surrounding the South China Sea have built more than 90 outposts on around 70 islands, rocks and reefs in the ...

Vietnamese construction work in the Spratly Islands continues to move forward, with “potential military structures” including runways taking shape on several of its outposts in the archipelago ...

On Friday, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed into law two pieces of legislation asserting the country’s ...

Beijing has called for Manila to work with it and “jointly manage the maritime situation” after China allowed supplies to be ...

Malaysia has formally protested Vietnam's expansion of the Barque Canada Reef in the contested Spratly Islands, a region with ...

Two such islands -- Philippine-held Thitu and Loaita in the Spratly archipelago -- became the focus of Manila's war games earlier Wednesday as troops executed a manoeuvre to retake the tiny ...

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

This area includes much of China’s nine-dash line claims, encompassing the Paracel, Spratly and Zhongsha Islands and commonly understood to cover Scarborough Shoal and Macclesfield Bank.

China released a new map for its southernmost city of Sansha as the country works to consolidate its control over the strategically important waters of the Sea. The city comprises two disputed island ...

The news outlet cited Southern Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to state that the patrol activities, in the area that China calls Huangyan Dao, involving naval and air forces were ...