The 200 sq metre Tiexian Reef forms part of the Spratly Islands and is located near Thitu Island, which hosts a Philippines military facility that Manila reportedly uses to track Chinese movements ...

It didn't specify what those steps entailed. The Sandy Cay reef lies near Thitu Island, or Pag-asa, where the Philippines stations troops and maintains a coast guard monitoring base.

This handout photo taken on March 21 last year and received from the Philippine Coast Guard and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources shows an aerial view of Philippine scientists inspecting Sandy ...

File image from 21 March, 2024 shows Philippine scientists inspecting Sandy Cay reef, near the Philippine-held Thitu Island, in Spratly Islands, in disputed waters of the South China Sea.

THE CHINESE coastguard has seized control of a reef near a Philippine military base ... This sankbank lies close to Thitu Island, also known as Pag-asa, which is home to a Philippine military ...

The reef, located in the flash point Spratly Island chain, is also claimed by Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines. Sandy Cay also sits just over 3 kilometers from Thitu Island, known as Pag-asa by ...