Thitu Island is home to the Philippines' largest military outpost in the South China Sea's Spratly Islands archipelago.

China deepened its strategic footprint by reasserting territorial claims along the China-India border, backing Pakistan ...

Defense Sec. Gilberto Teodoro Jr. and AFP chief Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. slammed “malicious narratives” by Chinese state ...

Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro engaged in a testy back-and-forth with Chinese officials at a Singapore security forum on Sunday, accusing leaders in Beijing of grabbing territory in ...

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Thursday rebuked and rejected anew China’s claims over the Spratlys, including the ...

The Philippine foreign ministry said on Thursday that China has no right to object to or interfere with its lawful and ...

The Philippines says China's coast guard targeted two of its research vessels near Sandy Cay in the South China Sea. It says China fired a water cannon at one research vessel, damaging it. Both ...

Tensions surged near Sandy Cay on May 22 as Chinese Coast Guard vessels sideswiped and blasted Philippine research ships with ...

The foreign missions of the United States, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and New Zealand aired concern ...

Philippine officials have condemned the Chinese coast guard, which it said used a powerful water cannon to target one of two ...

referring to the Sandy Cay features by their Filipino names. “The incident occurred within the territorial sea of the Philippines,” it added. The sandbars have become a flashpoint in the ongoing ...