The Philippines-China maritime tussle just edged up a notch this past week, with Chinese television reporting a Chinese ...

The Philippines sent navy, coastguard and maritime police officers to Sandy Cay and two neighbouring sandbanks in the Spratly ...

The Philippine military responded to the landing of Chinese forces on Sandy Cay reef by carrying out a similar operation, ...

The Philippine military on Sunday hit back at China by planting a flag at the disputed Sandy Cay reef days after Beijing had ...

Chinese state media says Beijing's coast guard has "implemented maritime control" over the Tiexian Reef during an ongoing ...

The Philippines, which disputes China's claim to the sandbank, responds by releasing a photo of its own forces on another.

China a day earlier said it had seized control of the Tiexian Reef, also known as Sandy Cay. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Chinese coast guard has seized control of a disputed reef near a major Philippine military outpost in the South China Sea ...

Chinese media says coastguard units entered remote sandbank, known in China as Tiexian Reef, ‘to exercise sovereignty’ ...

China has “implemented maritime governance and asserted its sovereign authority” over an uninhabited reef in the contested ...

Sandy Cay reef, which Beijing calls Tiexian Jiao, is located few kilometers from a military outpost of the Philippines - ...

Chinese coast guard seizes disputed reef near Philippine military outpost in South China Sea, escalating territorial tensions ...