MANILA: Competing claims to the South China Sea have for decades been a source of tension in the region. The Philippines filed a case before an international arbitration tribunal at The Hague to ...

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The disputed South China Sea was in focus Thursday at a regional summit in Laos as US President Barack Obama warned Beijing it cannot ignore a tribunal's ruling that rejected its sweeping claims to ...

A decades-long, multi-pronged dispute over territory in the West Philippine (South China) Sea escalated this week with the claim that Beijing has put missile batteries on a contested island in the ...

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The disputed South China Sea was in focus Wednesday at a regional summit in Laos, the first such gathering since an international court said Beijing’s artificial island building program there was ...