purports to lay out a "new model" for managing tensions at Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands. The past year has seen a string of confrontations between Philippine and Chinese vessels in ...

The Spratly Islands are a group of more than 750 reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands in the South China Sea between Vietnam, the Philippines, China, Malaysia and Brunei. They comprise less ...

China said it drove off two Philippine ... s name for the Spratly Islands. “The China Coast Guard will continue to lawfully carry out rights protection and law enforcement activities in waters ...

The latest annual Philippine budget allocated 1.65 billion ... the biggest outpost in the Spratly chain. "Nanshan Island, being relatively distant from a strong Chinese maritime presence nearby ...

Tensions between the Philippines and China have escalated over the last two years, mainly over two disputed territories: Scarborough Shoal and the Second Thomas Shoal, one of the Spratly Islands.

It is geopolitically important because of its proximity to the contested Spratly Islands and the West Philippine Sea ...

The Philippines is upgrading its facilities on Thitu Island, the only inhabited outpost it holds in the contested Spratly Islands, according to a report by the South China Morning Post.

This teardrop-shaped reef is part of the Spratly Islands, a mostly uninhabited archipelago midway between the Philippines and Vietnam, claimed entirely by China and in its various parts by the ...

China appears to have made headway in the so-called reclamation of disputed areas in the South China Sea, a project to create new land masses using reefs in areas claimed by both Beijing and its ...

China has driven off two Philippine government ships that tried to "illegally land" on a disputed reef in the Sea on Friday, ...