Southern Theater Command on Thursday organized naval and air forces to carry out combat-readiness patrols in the territorial ...

China has imposed sanctions on Francis Tolentino, a former senator of the Philippines, citing what it called “egregious conduct” related to the South China Sea. The announcement came just a day after ...

China said on Monday that its naval ship conducted a "lawful and legitimate" transit in Japan's territorial waters last week. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning, center, on August 19.

On Sunday Japan's coast guard said it had spotted the Chinese ships sailing in the Senkaku's contiguous zone, a buffer area extending 12 nautical miles from territorial waters.. One of the vessels ...

China's foreign ministry on Thursday countered Japan's territorial claims over disputed waters in the East China Sea, calling the move a "grave violation" of Chinese sovereignty.

Malacañang on Wednesday underscored that Filipinos who are fighting for the country's maritime rights would never be silenced. Palace Press Officer Undersecretary Atty. Claire Castro made the ...

In the early hours of July 4, the Suzutsuki traversed Chinese territorial waters for approximately 20 minutes, within 12 nautical miles (about 22 kilometers) of the coast of Zhejiang, China.

Japan says a Chinese Navy survey ship sailed into its territorial waters on Saturday. The incident comes just days after a Chinese military spy plane flew into Japanese airspace. China asserted ...

The PLAN ship left Japan’s territorial waters southwest of Yakushima Island at 7.53 a.m. and then sailed south. Minesweeper JS Shishijima (MSC-691) ...

Although the internationally recognized limit for territorial waters is 12 nautical miles, there’s another 12 outside of that called the “contiguous zone.” ...

The bipartisan bill would double the area of U.S. territorial waters to 24 nautical miles from shore. The goal of the bill is to help curb human trafficking and stop the flow of illegal drugs into ...

"It's the deepest shipwreck ever found in French territorial waters," Arnaud Schaumasse, the head of the culture ministry's underwater archaeology department, said late Wednesday.