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.

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 ...

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 ...

Why Sandy Cay matters. Sandy Cay is just a sandbar, slightly more than 200 square meters in size, notes the Financial Times. However, it holds strategic importance for China, ...

The incident took place around Sandy Cay in the Spratly Islands archipelago, where there are overlapping claims from China, the Philippines, Vietnam and three other nations.

Sandy Cay is close to Thitu Island, the largest and most strategically important of the nine features the Philippines occupies in the Spratly archipelago, where China, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam ...

Sandy Cay is close to Thitu Island, the largest and most strategically important of the nine features the Philippines occupies in the Spratly archipelago, where Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan and China ...

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.

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.