Vietnam’s island reclamation activities in the South China Sea made headlines in 2024 with a record area of land created and several airstrips planned on the new islands.

Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative said that dredging and landfills had caused “irreparable damage” to the marine habitat.

China claims most of the South China Sea and has established military outposts on artificial islands it has built there. Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines all have overlapping ...

Vietnam has responded forcefully, initiating its own land-reclamation projects in the Spratly Islands, and at Sand Cay and West London Reef. In addition, though the South China Sea has always been ...

Vietnam - which, like China and Taiwan, claims sovereignty over the Paracel Islands - called in a foreign ... Southeast Asian neighbors in the South China Sea,” Ortagus said.

Beijing has repeatedly asserted sovereignty over most of the South China Sea and accused rival claimant states, including the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia of ... sandbars flanked by an artificial ...

The researchers said they were told the species was fished near the Spratly Islands in Vietnam. More work will be need to done to find out if the species lives elsewhere in the South China Sea.

MANILA, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The Philippines said on Saturday it has suspended a scientific survey in the South China Sea after two of ... Malaysia and Vietnam. Two Philippine fisheries vessels ...

The Philippines said on Saturday it had suspended a scientific survey in the South China Sea after its fisheries vessels faced "harassment" and aggressive behaviour from China's coast guard and navy.

South Korean spy satellites recently detected a telltale sign of Chinese expansionism in the Yellow Sea: a new structure.

China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia ... would establish "regional sovereignty" over the islands in the South China Sea among the six claimants, allowing them to collectively manage the islands ...