by Ben Blanchard (Reuters) China’s navy has carried out drills in the Sea of Japan, the Chinese military’s official newspaper said on Friday, describing the exercises as routine and done...

  By Adam Minter (Bloomberg) On Wednesday, Indonesia celebrated its Independence Day with a bang — blowing up several Chinese boats that had been caught fishing illegally in its waters and impounded. China doesn’t dispute Indonesia’s...

(Bloomberg) The Japanese government has decided on a plan to develop land-to-sea missiles with a range of 300 kilometers (186 miles) to protect the nation’s isolated islands, including the Senkaku, the...

by Manuel Mogato (Reuters) Japan and the Philippines have begun talks for the transfer of two large coast guard ships to Manila, to help patrol the disputed South China Sea,...

By John Boudreau and Mai Ngoc Chau (Bloomberg) — The spyware used in cyber attacks on Vietnam’s major airports and national carrier last month is now suspected of having bombarded...

WASHINGTON, Aug 9 (Reuters) – Satellite photographs taken in late July show China appears to have built reinforced aircraft hangars on its holdings in disputed South China Sea islands, a...

By Yuji Nakamura (Bloomberg) Japan said two Chinese vessels entered Japanese territorial waters near the disputed “Senkaku” or “Diaoyu” islands in the East China Sea on Sunday morning in an...

By Peter Coy (Bloomberg) The U.S. and other coastal nations could lose millions of square nautical miles of ocean that are now in their exclusive economic zones. The loss would...

BEIJING, July 21 (Reuters) – Up to eight Chinese ships will offer cruises to the South China Sea over the next five years, a state-run newspaper said on Thursday, as...

by Noah Feldman (Bloomberg) An international court rules that China broke the law by building islands in the South China Sea. China doesn’t care.  Does that make international law a joke? The...

by Kathy Chen and David Stanway (Reuters) China aims to launch a series of offshore nuclear power platforms to promote development in the South China Sea, state media said again...

By David Brunnstrom and Ben Blanchard WASHINGTON/BEIJING, July 12 (Reuters) – An international tribunal’s ruling denying China’s claims in the South China Sea will “intensify conflict and even confrontation,” Beijing’s...

By Henning Gloystein and Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, July 12 (Reuters) – Global oil and shipping markets reacted nervously on Tuesday after an international arbitration court ruled against Beijing’s claims across...

By Anthony Deutsch and Ben Blanchard AMSTERDAM/BEIJING, July 12 (Reuters) – An arbitration court ruled on Tuesday that China has no historic title over the waters of the South China...

HONG KONG/AMSTERDAM, July 11 (Reuters) – A panel of five judges at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague will announce on Tuesday their ruling in a case brought...

BY GREG TORODE (Reuters) U.S. destroyers have sailed close to Chinese-held reefs and islands in the disputed South China Sea in recent weeks, U.S. naval officials said on Thursday, patrols...

BY GREG TORODE AND MIKE COLLETT-WHITE (Reuters) As an international tribunal prepares to rule on Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, officials in Washington, Tokyo and Southeast Asia...

By David Tweed (Bloomberg) — An international court will rule next month on the validity of China’s claims to a large swath of one of the world’s busiest and most...

SHANGHAI, June 21 (Reuters) – State-owned China COSCO Shipping Corp plans to launch cruise trips in the South China Sea next month, with the first route to travel from Sanya...

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — China is speeding up efforts to design and build a manned deep-sea platform to help it hunt for minerals in the South China Sea, one...