China is actively building new artificial islands, which you may have heard about in the news. The reasons are largely strategic and political, as the islands extend China's territory into the mineral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A satellite image of Landsdowne Reef, one of the features in the Spratly Islands where Vietnam has been island-building this year, ...

THITU ISLAND, South China Sea, Feb 23 (Reuters) - As the Philippine Coast Guard plane descended toward the country's most strategically important outpost in the disputed South China Sea, passengers' ...

China and the Cook Islands have wrapped up their first joint scientific expedition in the South Pacific, a region emerging as a focal point in the geopolitical race for rare earths. The 4,000-tonne ...

Chinas large-scale land reclamation around disputed reefs and shoals in the South China Sea is "moving ahead steadily", state media has reported, and is on track to use giant "island-builders" to ...

China has condemned Vietnam’s efforts to build up artificial islands in the South China Sea—even though it initiated the practice during the 2010s. It is unclear whether Mark Twain, Will Rogers, or ...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele, under mounting pressure from Beijing, recently reaffirmed Taiwan’s exclusion from the upcoming Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting. The decision marks ...