The Philippine team, using four motorised rubber boats, disembarked at Pag-asa Cay 1, Cay 2 and Cay 3 before sunrise. Their ...

Philippine officials say a mission visited Sandy Cay reef in the disputed South China Sea and unfurled the national flag.

China’s illegal presence at Sandy Cay and its claim of seizing the area is a “brazen affront” to Philippine sovereignty and international law and nothing more than “desperate and cheap stunts,” ...