China has seized a disputed reef just kilometres away from the Philippines’ most important military outpost in the South China Sea, raising the risk of a new stand-off between the two rival claimants.

New government report concludes degradation caused by combination of natural and human activity, including nearby Philippine ...

Since 1953, China has drawn an arbitrary maritime boundary known as the "nine-dash line" in the South China Sea, claiming ...

Photo: China Coast Guard displays the Chinese national flag at Tiexian Jiao in the South China Sea. The Global Times recently ...

With China aggressively insisting on the legality of its baseless nine, now 10-dash line, which covers almost the entire ...