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BEIJING has dismissed as fabrication allegations that Chinese fishermen were using cyanide to destroy the Filipinos fishing grounds in the Bajo de Masinloc atoll in the South China Sea.

A bill moving through the Philippine Senate aims to declare that all man-made islands in Manilas exclusive-use waters belong to the Philippine government.

US makes a ‘once in a generation effort’ to boost military, diplomatic ties in Asia as it seeks to compete with China.

From the remote speck of land they call home, the residents of Thitu Island have watched China’s presence creep closer, and grow more assertive, over the past decade

The Hawaii-based Indo-Pacific Command has published a legal report on a hotly disputed shoal in the South China Sea arguing that all Chinese claims to own the submerged reef are illegal.

The Philippine Coast Guard has released video evidence of a vast swarm of Chinese vessels at Whitsun Reef, a low-lying feature in the Spratly Islands....

MANILA, Philippines: The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Thursday called on China to remove all illegal structures it constructed in the contested Spratly islands in the South China Sea and cease reclamations in the area.

(1st UPDATE) 'We are being asked to give prior notification each time we conduct a resupply mission to Ayungin Shoal. We will not do so,' says Department of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Teresita Daza

(UPDATE) THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Thursday called on China to remove all illegal structures it constructed in the contested Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS) and cease reclamations in the area.

MANILA fired its longest and strongest rebuttal ever to Beijing since 2016, demanding that the Asian military superpower get out of the West Philippine Sea and be accountable for the environmental destruction it caused in building artificial islands. “We call on China to remove all these illegal structures, cease reclamations…