The South China Sea is an important shipping route that holds significant oil and gas reserves.

Indonesia is one of the founding members of ASEAN and long served as its de facto leader, playing a crucial role in mediating regional crises. Analysts warned that its leadership in the group on the ...

The Chinese naval drills in the waters between Australia and New Zealand have prompted airlines to divert flights.

China accused Australia on Friday of deliberately provoking it with a maritime patrol in the disputed South China Sea this ...

Vietnam's foreign ministry published a map defining its baseline claim in the Gulf of Tonkin, where it shares a maritime border with China, which it said on Friday was to help protect and enforce its ...

THE PHILIPPINES should develop a clear national narrative on its sea dispute with China to boost its claim, a former Supreme Court justice said on Thursday.

With the aim of ensuring lasting peace and stability in the waters, China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are ...

with around 54,000 US military personnel stationed in the country. Beijing has in recent months pressed its territorial claims in the South China Sea - which overlap Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia ...

As the shared homeland for these countries, which constitute a key driver of the global economy, and an important international waterway, the South China Sea needs constructive contributions from ...

South Korea should increase efforts to prevent China from normalizing its claims to sovereignty over a disputed maritime area in waters the two countries share, analysts say. China has been doing ...

"All countries are expected to respect freedom of navigation and overflight in and above international sea lines of communication, such as the South China Sea," it said in a statement. China ...