Tensions surged near Sandy Cay on May 22 as Chinese Coast Guard vessels sideswiped and blasted Philippine research ships with ...

Chinese coastguard and Philippine fisheries vessels collide in latest encounter over disputed South China Sea reef.

near the Spratly Islands. Sandy Cay is a sandbar covering just over 200 square meters, but it holds strategic significance for China. International law allows a country to conduct economic ...

The May 21st water cannon attack by a China Coast Guard ship against Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources ...

Vietnam is protesting claims made by the Philippines and China over Sandy Cay, a disputed reef in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) that Hanoi is also ...

China and the Philippines have clashed over Sandy Cay in the South China Sea ... had “illegally landed” on the reef in the contested Spratly Islands, known as the Nansha Islands in Chinese.

The waters around Sandy Cay, which is part of the Spratly Islands, are frequently the site of scuffles between Beijing and Manila, including as recently as January, when Chinese coast guard ships ...

The Philippine Navy denied Monday China’s claim that it has occupied Sandy Cay, which it calls Tiexian Reef, in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). Rear ...

The Philippine Navy denied Monday China’s claim that it has occupied Sandy Cay, which it calls Tiexian Reef, in the South China Sea.

Manila and Beijing traded barbs last week over Sandy Cay, a group of small sandbanks in the waterway’s Spratly Islands, after a Chinese state media report suggested the area had been seized.

displaying fresh aggression and ratcheting up tension in the flashpoint South China Sea region by claiming to have taken control of the tiny sandbank of Sandy Cay, part of the Spratly group of islands ...