The report, which also lists the Philippines, Malaysia and Taiwan, says the claimants’ activities have caused ‘irreparable’ damage.

Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative said that dredging and landfills had caused “irreparable damage” to the marine habitat.

Vietnam’s island reclamation activities in the South China Sea made headlines in 2024 with a record area of land created and several airstrips planned on the new islands.

China has reasserted claims to roughly 90 percent of the South China Sea as its exclusive economic zone. Vietnam has responded forcefully, initiating its own land-reclamation projects in the ...

WASHINGTON--Vietnam has conducted a major expansion of dredging and landfill work at several of its South China Sea outposts in the second half of this year, signaling an intent to significantly ...

The researchers said they were told the species was fished near the Spratly Islands in Vietnam. More work will be need to done to find out if the species lives elsewhere in the South China Sea.

vaderi were deep-sea trawling in the South China Sea about 50 nautical miles offshore of the city of Quy Nhon in south-central Vietnam, which is west of the Spratly Islands. B. vaderi are bottom ...

Crew members assigned to the Philippine Coast Guard vessel BRP Sindangan say they knew their mission would involve facing off ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Canada and the Philippines are in the final stages of negotiating a key defense pact that would ...

The latest Maritime Security Threat Advisory from Dryad Global states that China’s military activity near Scarborough Shoal ...

More drills involving U.S., Japanese, and French naval forces are scheduled later this week in the Philippine Sea.

Contingency Planning Memoranda identify plausible scenarios that could have serious consequences for U.S. interests and propose measures to both prevent and mitigate them. The risk of conflict in ...