Vietnam has significantly expanded its island-building efforts across the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. According ...

WASHINGTON >> Vietnam has significantly expanded island-building work in areas it claims in the Spratly Islands chain of the ...

THE country has significantly expanded island-building work in areas it claims in the Spratly Islands chain of the disputed South China Sea and will match and likely surpass the scale of such activity ...

The Beijing-based Grandview Institution says Hanoi ramped up island expansion in the South China Sea from 2021 using large dredgers Vietnam has occupied more Chinese islands and reefs, stationed ...

China’s sweeping communications network in the Spratlys will have a decisive role to play in Beijing’s crisis management plans to deal with its increasing tensions with the US in the South ...

China will be able to project "substantial offensive military power" from artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea's disputed Spratly Islands within months, the director of U.S ...

The Spratlys, which sit aside key strategic sea lanes in the South China Sea and are believed to have significant reserves of oil and gas, have been the subject of bitter and long-running disputes ...

Indeed, since 1988, when China and Vietnam clashed near the Spratlys, there have been no serious armed flare-ups. Tension rose in 1995, when China was found to have built on Mischief Reef, claimed ...

The Spratlys dispute is a sensitive topic to me and other Chinese-Filipinos. People would always ask which side I’m on, or which country has sovereignty over these islands.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry urged the Philippines on Friday (Jan 22) to exercise "restraint" over "relevant parties", after Filipino protesters said they planned a second trip to ...

The new Sansha city embraces the Spratlys, where the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan also have claims. But these contenders have so far kept quiet.

In May 2015, China began construction of lighthouses on two of the features it occupies in the Spratlys, Cuarteron Reef and Johnson South Reef. The lighthouses, employing cylindrical and cone ...