The Latest Breaking News from South China Sea

Vessel becomes potential flashpoint as Beijing orders Philippines to remove wreck housing marines in South China Sea

Manila summoned Beijing's envoy Monday after the China Coast Guard blocked and water cannoned Philippine vessels in the disputed South China Sea, President Ferdinand Marcos said.

A senior Philippine official tells The Associated Press that the Philippine government has summoned the Chinese ambassador to convey a diplomatic protest over the Chinese coast guard’s use of a water cannon against a Filipino supply boat in the disputed South China Sea

Latest in long history of nautical intimidations by Beijing, which lays unrecognised claim to almost all of the South China Sea

The Philippine military has condemned a Chinese coast guard ship's “excessive and offensive” use of a water cannon against a Filipino supply boat to block it from delivering new troops, food, water and fuel to a Philippine-occupied shoal in the disputed South China Sea

China and Southeast Asian nations have agreed to try to conclude within three years a long-delayed nonaggression pact aimed at preventing frequent territorial spats in the busy South China Sea from turning into a major armed conflict

The South China Sea problem requires a political framework, which can only be created through dialogue, which the ASEAN must recognise

Censors want a ‘cartoonish map’ depicting China’s claim over the South China Sea blurred from the film.

Myanmar’s prolonged civil strife, tensions in the disputed South China Sea and concern over arms buildups in the region are expected to dominate the agenda when Southeast Asia’s top diplomats gather for talks this week in Indonesia

WASHINGTON: Washington hopes to rally Southeast Asian nations to take tougher action against Myanmar's military junta and to push back on China's actions in the South China Sea as top United States diplomat Antony Blinken heads to the region for meetings next week, a State Department official said on Friday.

Warner Bros says map is ‘child-like’ after Vietnam accused film-makers of depicting China’s nine-dash line in South China Sea