PAG-ASA ISLAND—On this tiny piece of land, 389 Filipinos have settled down and made a home, making them a remote yet closely monitored community with a direct stake in the future of the disputed ...

Pag-asa Island, the lone barangay of Kalayaan town in Palawan, lies beyond the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone, the backbone of the country’s South China Sea claims which the arbitration court in ...