The ship was stuck in shallows for three hours just a mile from the Philippine-held Thitu Island, according to that Manila's ...

Amid growing tensions in the South China Sea, Filipino civilians and soldiers on Thitu Island - known locally as Pag-asa - ...

Tensions surged near Sandy Cay on May 22 as Chinese Coast Guard vessels sideswiped and blasted Philippine research ships with water cannons. China slammed the mission as “illegal,” warning of further ...

MANILA, Philippines — China criticized the United States for allegedly inciting tensions in the South China Sea (SCS) after US Ambassador to the Philippines MaryKay Carlson condemned the actions of ...

US Ambassador to the Philippines MaryKay L. Carlson said the action of the China Coast Guard (CCG) threatens regional stability. “The China Coast Guard’s aggressive actions against a lawful ...

Sandy Cay is an unoccupied group of sandbars known as Tiexian Jiao in China, and Pulo ng Bailan in the Philippines, with the official name of Pagasa Cay 2. It is the closest reef to Subi Reef ...

Manila said one fisheries bureau ship sustained damage and blasted China's coast guard for putting civilian lives "at risk." ...

Amid escalating Chinese aggression in the West Philippine Sea, House Speaker Martin Romualdez stood before the world’s lawmakers in Madrid, Spain to ...

Sandy Cay is close to Thitu Island, the largest and most strategically important of the nine features the Philippines occupies in the Spratly archipelago, where China, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam ...

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 ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad China’s coast guard blamed the Philippines for the collision, saying the vessels entered the waters illegally without China’s permission and landed ...