Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial view of Southwest Cay, also known as Pugad Island, controlled by Vietnam and part of the Spratly Islands in the disputed ...

Vietnam has built a total of 21 independent artificial islands in the South China Sea over the past four years in response to China, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on the 3rd through its own ...

Hanoi has now begun land reclamation work at all 21 of the rocks and low-tide elevations that it occupies in the disputed island group. Vietnam continues to expand and develop its outposts in the ...

Vietnam has “significantly accelerated” the expansion of its outposts in the Spratly Islands over the last six months, a U.S. think tank said last week, putting Hanoi on pace for a “record year of ...

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 report from ...

Vietnam has significantly expanded its outposts in the contested Spratly Islands during the past six months according to a report released Friday by the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI).

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Vietnam has revved up its land reclamation efforts in the South China Sea this year, beginning construction on eight previously untouched features in the Spratly Islands.

WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - 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 ...