A flurry of Vietnamese island fortifications and intensifying Chinese activity show the rising odds of confrontation in the ...

China has kept a deployment of coast guard and fishing trawlers at the shoal since seizing it in 2012 after a standoff with the Philippines. Manila has said Chinese maritime militia operate some ...

TAIPEI--Indonesia and China said Monday they committed to maritime cooperation promoting safety and security in the South ...

The State Department has said the United States stands with the Philippines after the treaty ally’s fishing boats were hit with water cannons by Chinese forces in the South China Sea last week, as ...

Vietnamese fishers in 2010-2011 in Lý Sơn island. Credit: André Menras In early 2010, a few months after he received Vietnamese honorary citizenship, André Menras, a French national, decided to set ...

There’s another way to tackle China’s exclusion of Filipino fisherfolk from the South China Sea: cutting off its access to the Philippine seafood market. The current Philippine government’s ...

At first light, nothing appears unusual in the waters of the East China Sea: tightly packed fishing boats, dim lights flickering across the surface, and the slow rhythm of what seems like an ...

Instead, Antelope Reef, as this cay is known, is beginning to look a lot like China’s large military airbase at Mischief Reef. One of three airbases which China built during a spree of island-building ...