The Philippines this week said it continued to track dozens of armed Chinese fishing vessels around a disputed island in the South China Sea, part of Beijing's "gray zone" efforts to assert sweeping ...

Life is simple here, the residents of this tropical island like to say, except for one constant nuisance: China. From dawn to dusk, Chinese coast guard ships sail around the island, tailing Philippine ...

Illegal Chinese fishermen suspected of using cyanide in a highly destructive fishing method have been intercepted by ...

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 than ...

BANGKOK (AP) — China has been at odds with many other countries in the Asia-Pacific for years over its sweeping maritime claims, including almost all of the South China Sea, a strategic and ...

Littoral Combat Ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10) sailed past Second Thomas Shoal in the disputed Spratly Island chain in the South China Sea, prompting an angry response from the Chinese military.

China accused the Philippines on Friday of having "provoked trouble" in the South China Sea with U.S. backing, a week after Beijing and Manila traded accusations over a new confrontation in the ...

The U.S. and the Philippines are stepping-up joint naval and marine to counter China's expanding reach across disputed waters ...

As a condition of embedding on the mission, USNI News has agreed to identify crew members with nicknames related to their home provinces. ABOARD BRP MALAPASCUA, SAILING IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA – It was ...