Vietnam’s island reclamation activities in the South China Sea made headlines in 2024 with a record area of land created and ...

A low-flying People's Liberation Army Navy helicopter joined the Chinese coast guard's interception of a Philippine scientific survey in the contested Spratly Island on January 24. 33-year-old ...

China said it drove off two Philippine government ships that tried to “illegally land” on a disputed reef in the South China Sea on Friday. According to the Chinese coastguard, the ships ...

Over the past six months, the country has reclaimed almost as much new land as it did in the previous two years combined, closing the gap with China's "island fortresses." A Foreign Ministry ...

In the Spratly Islands, diplomatic chess plays out ... Some claim for themselves the entire surface, each island, every atoll, every small islet; others, more humble, demand only that sovereignty ...

Namyit Island, at 117 acres (47 hectares) and Pearson Reef, at 119 acres (48 hectares), were both now larger than Spratly Island at 97 acres (39 hectares), which had been Vietnam’s largest outpost.

Vietnam already has a 1.3km runway on Spratly Island and the completion of a 3km runway would allow it to operate a wide range of military aircraft – from fighters to transport planes ...

three small uninhabited sandbars in the Spratly archipelago. Their destination was located near the Thitu island controlled by the Philippines and an artificial island where China had erected a ...

the biggest outpost in the Spratly chain. "Nanshan Island, being relatively distant from a strong Chinese maritime presence nearby, faces less interference or pressure from the Chinese coastguard ...

The Spratly Islands are a group of more than 750 reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands in the South China Sea between Vietnam, the Philippines, China, Malaysia and Brunei. They comprise less ...