said in a statement posted to X on Monday that its military had landed on Sandy Cay. The statement featured video and photos, including one showing personnel displaying a Philippine flag on one ...

China and the Philippines have each unfurled their national flags on tiny sandbars in the South China Sea, staking competing ...

Chinese media says coastguard units entered remote sandbank, known in China as Tiexian Reef, ‘to exercise sovereignty’ ...

The Philippines sent navy, coastguard and maritime police officers to Sandy Cay and two neighbouring sandbanks in the Spratly ...

The Philippine military responded to the landing of Chinese forces on Sandy Cay reef by carrying out a similar operation, ...