Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada on Friday, May 30 rejected China’s claim of sovereignty over Spratly ...

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Thursday, May 29, that the Philippines will continue to conduct maritime ...

vessels near Sandy Cay represents a dangerous escalation and demonstrates that the time for American strategic ambiguity on the Philippines' claim to Pag-asa (Thitu) Island has long since passed.

The NMC said the incident occurred within Philippine territorial waters. Sandy Cay is part of the Kalayaan Island Group in the West Philippine Sea. The "deliberate acts of interference and ...

Sandy Cay is part of the disputed Spratly Islands, also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan. The incident adds fuel to the ongoing maritime conflict and challenges a 2016 arbitration ruling. # ...

A China Coast Guard (CCG) ship reportedly fired water cannon and sideswiped a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) vessel in Pag-asa Cay 2 (Sandy Cay ... Philippines in the area ...

The incident occurred Wednesday morning at Sandy Cay, a string of three sandbars near Thitu Island. Thitu is the only inhabited island in the Spratlys, home to around 250 residents, a modest ...

The Bureau of Fisheries in Manila said the incident took place on Wednesday near one of three sandbars called Sandy Cay and caused damage ... occupied Thitu island and a Chinese-built island ...

beyond the Spratly Islands, amid recent contentions from Vietnam and China over Sandy Cay, a string of sandbars near Pag-asa Island within its 22-kilometer territorial sea. Over the weekend, Hanoi ...

SANDY Cay is an uninhabited sandbar in the South China Sea that is barely visible during high tide. Lately, however, it has loomed large in the ever-shifting geopolitical landscape of the disputed ...

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.