The ship was stuck in shallows for three hours just a mile from the Philippine-held Thitu Island, according to that Manila's ...

The Department of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday that China has no right to object to or interfere with its lawful and ...

Tensions surged near Sandy Cay on May 22 as Chinese Coast Guard vessels sideswiped and blasted Philippine research ships with water cannons. China slammed the mission as “illegal,” warning of ...

The Embassy of Canada in the Philippines opposed China’s coercive and intimidation activities in the South China Sea. “Canada is alarmed by China’s latest dangerous actions in the South China Sea, ...

MANILA/BEIJING — China and the Philippines traded accusations on Thursday following a confrontation between two of their vessels in contested waters of ...

House Speaker Martin Romualdez told world’s lawmakers the Marcos administration is committed to defend the country’s sovereign rights through the force of ...

Sandy Cay is close to Thitu Island, the largest and most strategically important of the nine features the Philippines occupies in the Spratly archipelago, where China, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam ...

Chinese state media in mid-April reported that China’s coast guard had asserted sovereignty over the Sandy Cay by landing and displaying Beijing’s national flag on the feature. But Manila has denied ...

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 ...

Vietnam has expressed its objections to China and the Philippines regarding their conflicting activities at Sandy Cay in the disputed South China Sea, demonstrating the nation's growing ...