China has "implemented maritime governance and asserted its sovereign authority" over an uninhabited reef in the contested ...

Photos published by Chinese media show members of the coastguard planting the national flag on Sandy Cay ... which hosts a Philippine military facility and a newly inaugurated coast guard base ...

The Philippine military on Sunday hit back at China by planting a flag at the disputed Sandy Cay reef days after Beijing had conducted a similar operation, the Philippine News Agency reported.

China’s coastguard has seized control of a disputed reef near a key Philippine military base in the South ... of the coastguard planting the national flag on Sandy Cay, known in China as Tiexian ...