As one of the world's four ancient civilizations, China has over 2,000 years of documented records related to the South China ...

Tensions are again rising in the strategic sea, which has long been a serious flashpoint between Beijing and its competitors.

This chapter of history reveals another fundamental fact: The post-World War II international order established the basis for ...

Seething international tensions over the South China Sea have struck an unlikely victim in Vietnam: popular children's dolls pulled from shops over a facial mark supposedly resembling Beijing's ...

The map, based on ship-tracking data from MarineTraffic and Global Fishing Watch, shows the ship departed from the port of Sanya in China's Hainan province on December 30.

Vietnamese police are investigating a Chinese tea brand over an online map featuring Beijing's disputed claims in the South China Sea, authorities said. Police in commercial hub Ho Chi Minh City ...

China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims.

Sansha, set up to assert China’s claims in contested waters, gets new map and postcodes days after Manila enacts laws on maritime routes.

For an epicentre of a superpower contest, the South China Sea was often surprisingly placid. Compared with that, the squalls in this new phase of the confrontation threaten to become a storm.

For a long time, the South China Sea has been a universally accepted geographical name, widely recognized by countries around the world and international institutions including the UN, Ding ...