Whitsun Reef lies in the Spratlys, the most hotly contested region in the South China Sea. The Philippines regards the resource-rich chain of islands, islets and atolls as part of its western ...

Journalists who joined the patrol also witnessed what life has been like for the Philippine Coast Guard as the South China Sea dispute festers. China has deployed militia ships near Whitsun Reef ...

MANILA--The United States said Tuesday it’s backing the Philippines in a new standoff with Beijing in the disputed South China Sea ... boats leave the Whitsun Reef, a shallow coral region ...

The BBC also saw at least 100 Chinese fishing boats moored together in Whitsun Reef – which the Philippines claim as theirs. Vikas Pandey and Samira Hussain explain how the chaos unfolded in ...

Earlier this month, China declared new "baselines" around Scarborough Reef, a large coral atoll topped by a handful of rocks barely above sea level in the South China Sea. By doing so, China ...

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

Hu Bo, the director of the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative (SCSPI), said the runway on Barque Canada Reef could put significant pressure on China, in part because Vietnam ...

An expert told Newsweek China is hostile due to frustration at the presence of the U.S. Typhon missile system in the Philippines.