The Philippines is upgrading facilities on Thitu Island, its only inhabited outpost in the disputed Spratly Islands, in a move seen as an effort to catch up with rival South China Sea claimants.

which is strategically close to maritime flashpoints such as the Spratly Islands. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr on Friday said he was “very disturbed” by the arrests.

Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said the work in the Spratly Islands, which are also claimed by China and others, had created roughly 420 acres (170 hectares ...

VOV.VN - As Vietnamese people on the mainland joyfully prepare for the Lunar New Year 2025 festival (Tet), soldiers and residents garrisoned on the Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands also celebrate Tet in a ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The islands of the SCS have some military relevance, but are more important as a political claim to waterways and undersea resources. China has built ...

So far, the new species has only been found by fishers trawling near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. Peter Ng at the National University of Singapore and his colleagues analysed four ...

Dubai is famous for its attention-grabbing architecture, whether it’s the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, or the actual “World” — an archipelago of 300 man-made islands in ...

A team of scientists discovered a new species of giant isopod in the deep waters near Vietnam's Spratly Islands and named it Bathynomus vaderi, in honor of the iconic helmet worn by Darth Vader ...

It was a different kind of island getaway. Scientists were intrigued after NASA satellites spotted a mysterious “ghost island” that formed and then disappeared just as quickly. The phantom ...

Eagle-eyed geologist Mark Tingay recently noticed the emergence of a ‘ghost island’ in November of 2024, caused by a submarine mud volcano called Kumani Bank. Satellites show that the island ...

配合新加坡庆祝建国60周年，今年全国华文大比拼题目将融入更多本地历史文化的元素，部分试题也将出自“新加坡华族文化百科”。 面向全国中小学生的华文大比拼，今年迈入第12个年头。

This is hardly the first time the ghost island of the Kumani Bank has appeared and disappeared. We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the majority of ...