The back and forth over Sandy Cay is the latest flare-up in a long-running dispute over territory in the hotly contested South China Sea, which China claims almost in its entirety.

Officials said a Filipino scientific team were in Sandy Cay to collect sand samples from the sandbars. A larger Chinese coast guard ship “water cannoned and sideswiped" one of the vessels twice ...

Sandy Cay was at the center of a previous standoff between the Philippines and China in 2017 after the Philippines started building a shelter for its fishermen on one of the sandbars.

Education ministry says public security in the Philippines has been unstable and Chinese have frequently been targeted.

Beijing ‘must be prepared to respond’, and it might be headed for confrontation with Vietnam over land reclamation, analyst ...

Sandy Cay (Filipino name: “Pag-asa Cay 2”), a tiny South China Sea (SCS) sandbar found in the western section of our Pag-Asa island’s Territorial Sea (TS), is very much in the news these days.

Sandy Cay and Thitu island have been at the centre of these disputes previously. In 2019, about 275 Chinese vessels appeared near Thitu, prompting an aggressive response from the Philippines ...

The incident took place around Sandy Cay in the Spratly Islands archipelago, where there are overlapping claims from China, the Philippines, Vietnam and three other nations.

The back and forth over Sandy Cay is the latest flare-up in a long-running dispute over territory in the hotly contested South China Sea, which China claims almost in its entirety.

The back and forth over Sandy Cay is the latest flare-up in a long-running dispute over territory in the hotly contested South China Sea, which China claims almost in its entirety.