The contested South China Sea boasts rich oil and gas reserves and could play a key role in a conflict over Taiwan.

An aerial view of China occupied Subi Reef at Spratly Islands in disputed South China Sea BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese foreign ministry on Wednesday said China's claims to the Paracel and Spratly ...

HANOI (Reuters) - The presence of Chinese bombers on the disputed Paracel islands in the South China Sea "jeopardises peace", Vietnam's foreign ministry said on Thursday, in another sign of ...

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam condemned China on Thursday, saying Chinese law enforcement personnel assaulted 10 Vietnamese fishermen, damaged their fishing gear and seized about 4 tons of fish catch near ...

The Paracel Islands consist of over 30 islets, sandbanks or reefs, occupy about 15,000 km2 of the ocean surface, and located in the South China Sea. Turtles live on the islands, and seabirds have ...

In response to China’s aggressive military exercise last week, in which its air force landed bomber aircraft on islands in the Paracel Island chain of the South China Sea, the U.S. should negotiate ...

Periodic bomber deployments to Woody Island—spotted by U.S. satellite company Maxar Technologies and verified by open-source intelligence analysts—have been interpreted as a demonstration of China's ...

Discovery Reef is an elliptical ring of submerged rocks that run about 17 miles long from east to west and four miles north to south. It's part of the Paracel Islands, an archipelago of shoals, banks, ...

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Chinese forces followed and warned away a U.S. warship which entered waters near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, the country's military said on Thursday, but the U.S. Navy denied the ship ...

Storm Fengshen entered East Sea with maximum winds of 88 kilometers per hour on Sunday afternoon, more than a day after it strengthened from a tropical depression, becoming the 12th storm to affect ...

Fengshen is expected to enter the East Sea this evening (October 19), becoming the 12th storm of the year. Forecasts suggest it may intensify, with peak gusts reaching level 13.