The contested South China Sea boasts rich oil and gas reserves and could play a key role in a conflict over Taiwan.

(CNN) — 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 ...

Satellite imagery shows an airstrip under construction on Zuqar Island, a strategic location in the Red Sea that is under the ...

Vietnam is accelerating construction on artificial islands in the South China Sea, intensifying a long-running territorial ...

CHINA MAY be preparing for island-building at Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea, in a move that could bolster its sweeping claims over the waterway and heighten regional tensions, ...

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 declaration of a nature reserve in the South China Sea is the latest twist in its yearslong push to establish control over the strategically important waters and sea lane. The National ...