Officials said a Filipino scientific team were in Sandy Cay to collect sand samples from the sandbars. A larger Chinese coast guard ship “water cannoned and sideswiped" one of the vessels twice ...

The back and forth over Sandy Cay is the latest flare-up in a long-running dispute over territory in the hotly contested South China Sea, which China claims almost in its entirety.

Sandy Cay was at the center of a previous standoff between the Philippines and China in 2017 after the Philippines started building a shelter for its fishermen on one of the sandbars.

Education ministry says public security in the Philippines has been unstable and Chinese have frequently been targeted.

Sandy Cay and Thitu island have been at the centre of these disputes previously. In 2019, about 275 Chinese vessels appeared near Thitu, prompting an aggressive response from the Philippines ...

Sandy Cay sliced away one-third of the territorial sea of Pag-asa Island, which lost a territorial sea more than three times the land area of Quezon City. China’s seizure of Sandy Cay in 2017 was ...

Sandy Cay lies over 4 nautical miles from Pag-asa Island, which is part of Palawan province. The cay serves as a traditional rest and recreation area for residents and visitors of the island.

However, during recent tours to Sandy Cay, it is alleged that one of the American owners was “rude and disrespectful” to Mr Cooper and his guests and refused to permit them to come ashore.

Sandy beaches and palm trees planted for habitat restoration await visitors to Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve, a private island in the Bahamas, on Oct. 15, 2022.