By Kenneth Christiane L. Basilio, Reporter NEARLY 50 Chinese navy and coast guard ships were monitored at contested features in the South China Sea in June, the Philippine military said on Tuesday, in ...

Since 1952, Beijing has claimed virtually the entire sea, everything inside what's referred to as the nine dash line. In 2023, China added a tenth dash off Taiwan. The Philippines, Malaysia ...

This photograph captured by Airbus in June 2023 and provided by Google Earth shows Philippine-control Thitu Island in the contested Spratly Islands archipelago in the South China Sea.

In a new national map released in 2003, the Chinese government demarcated its claim to virtually the entire South China Sea, with vague dash lines that drew protests and rejections from rival ...

China claims more than 90% of the potentially energy-rich South China Sea via a U-shaped "nine-dash line" on its maps that stretches into Southeast Asia and cuts into the exclusive economic zones ...

A Chinese ship ran aground in stormy weather in shallow waters off a Philippines-occupied island in the disputed South China Sea, prompting Filipino forces to go on alert, Philippine military ...

China claims sovereignty over roughly 90 percent of the South China Sea, citing "historical rights," despite a Hague-based arbitral tribunal's 2016 ruling dismissing the claims as incompatible ...

China has asserted sovereignty over an uninhabited reef in the South China Sea by planting a flag, according to state media, setting the stage for an escalation of tensions with the Philippines ...

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 ...

The U.S. could be drawn into a conflict between China and the Philippines that's been roiling the South China Sea. Latest U.S.

Manila is preparing to upgrade its fighter fleet. In March, the U.S. Department of Defense approved $5.58 billion sale of 20 Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70/72 fighters — 16 single-seat C models ...