Analysts say while China has expanded its security presence in the Pacific region in recent years, some Pacific island countries ... Hague's 2016 ruling on the South China Sea.

MANILA (Bloomberg): Any behind-the-scenes deal between China and the previous Philippine administration over the disputed South China Sea would be against the national interest and is no longer ...

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your ... scientists from reaching two sandbars in the disputed South China Sea, according to Philippine officials. Chinese coast guard ...

An airstrip made by China is seen beside structures and buildings at the man-made island ... force in the South China Sea on Wednesday and Thursday. The drills coincided with an two-day exercise by ...

American and Filipino forces launched their largest combat exercises for years in a show of allied firepower near the disputed South China Sea that has ... Brawner, who opened the exercises ...

“There are truly rough winds blowing across the South China Sea and this is happening in the middle of one of the most dynamic economic regions of the world,” she told a news conference in ...

China has carried out military "combat patrols" in the disputed South China Sea, amid the US' first joint military ... kilometres from the Philippines' island of Palawan, and within its 200 ...