Vietnam is following in the footsteps of rival Spratly Islands claimant China in building military-purposed infrastructure, ...

The "monster ship" was named after Nansha, the Chinese name of the Spratly Islands. China views the vessel as an important tool to safeguard maritime rights and interests in the contested East and ...

Click to enlarge Chinese coast guard ships loom on the horizon just beyond the shoal, which is part of the Spratly Islands -- territory claimed by both the Philippines and China. The Sierra Madre ...

Despite these upgrades, it remains unlikely that Vietnam could hold the islands against a concerted Chinese ... If both Chinese and Vietnamese ships begin to operate from the Spratlys en masse, the ...

MANILA, Philippines — The identity of the vessel which rammed a Philippine fishing boat on Jan. 30 in the vicinity of the Spratly Islands remains ... which involved ships patrolling the WPS ...

A Philippine flutters on BRP Sierra Madre, a dilapidated Philippine Navy ship that has been aground since 1999, on the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, part of the Spratly Islands, in the South China ...

The Spratlys are claimed by multiple Southeast Asian countries, including the Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia. Lee called Wu's visit to the islands "unprecedented" even for China, a nation that ...

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 ...