Two weeks after Chinese coastguard personnel posed with their national flag on Sandy Cay – asserting ... spokesman for the Philippine Coast Guard on South China Sea issues.

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 ...

The Philippines has 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 outcrops.

Photos of planted flags surfaced on social media. China claims sovereignty over almost all of the South China Sea. It has engaged in several confrontations with the Philippines over the last few ...

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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 ...

China says six Filipinos landed on a tiny outcropping that both countries claim in the South China Sea, days after photos emerged of Chinese coast guard officers displaying a Chinese flag on the ...