China and the Philippines have each unfurled their national flags on tiny sandbars in the South China Sea, staking competing sovereignty claims in strategic waters seen as a potential flashpoint for ...

Analysts say quiet incursions are part of a deliberate effort by China to normalise its presence in previously unpatrolled areas When a Chinese coastguard vessel appeared off the coast of Zambales ...

Exactly 127 years ago, on Dec. 10, 1898, the Treaty of Paris was signed, officially ending the Spanish-American War that once saw an all-powerful empire feebly chugging along Manila Bay on its ...