Vietnam is on a South China Sea island-building binge that will likely see it soon surpass the area China has reclaimed in the strategic and contested Spratly Islands, according to a new report from ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese authorities said they began live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin on Monday, only days after Vietnam announced a new line marking what it considers its territory in the body ...

China seizes 60,000 maps for ‘mislabelling’ Taiwan and omitting South China Sea claims - Officials say the export-bound maps threaten the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity ...

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KUALA LUMPUR - Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth on Saturday (Nov 1) took aim at Beijing over an increase in "destabilising actions ...

Vietnam has stepped up its island-building activities in the South China Sea's Spratly Islands and is on track to surpass China in terms of land reclaimed, according to a U.S. think tank's new ...

Vietnam announced plans to evacuate more than half a million people and ordered boats to stay ashore, while the southern Chinese city of Sanya closed businesses and public transport on Sunday as both ...

WASHINGTON >> Vietnam has significantly expanded island-building work in areas it claims in the Spratly Islands chain of the disputed South China Sea and will match and likely surpass the scale of ...

China’s President Xi Jinping (left) walks with To Lam, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, in Hanoi, Vietnam, April 14, 2025. Credit: Viet Nam Government Portal After Vietnam and ...

Countries across Asia are counting the cost after one of the strongest storms to hit the region in years battered the coast of southern China before finally weakening as it entered Vietnam on Thursday ...