Strait of Malacca
The funnel-shaped Strait of Malacca stretches 600 nautical miles between the west coast of peninsular Malaysia and the east coast of Sumatra. Named after the ancient city of Mal...
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Indonesia's defense minister urged China, Japan and South Korea
on Sunday to provide technical assistance to help the Indonesian navy
boost its capacity to fight piracy in the Strait of Malac...
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Kuala Lumpur (dpa) - Malaysia's deputy prime minister Najib Razak
on Tuesday called on countries plying the Malacca Strait to increase
their support and aid towards maintain...
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Beijing (dpa) - Construction was expected to begin this year on an
oil pipeline from Myanmar's deep-water port of Sittwe to
south-western China, state media on Monday quoted...
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Malaysia broke ground Thursday to mark the start of construction
of a 1.4 billion-ringgit oil terminal ($406 million) along the busy
Strait of Malacca -- a move that is widely seen to develop...
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London (dpa) - Modern-day piracy is threatening aid supplies to
more than one million people in war-torn Somalia, experts of the
United Nations (UN) and the London-based Int...
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Pirate attacks have increased sharply, especially in Somalia and Nigeria, an international maritime watchdog agency said Thursday.There were 85 attacks on ships in the April-June quarter, up from 6...
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Yangon (dpa) - China is conducting a survey on the feasibility of
using Myanmar's Yanbyai island as an oil terminal to supply a planned
1,440-kilometre pipeline from the Bay...
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Singapore (dpa) - Foreign warships went on display Tuesday
showcasing their cutting-edge features to Asia-Pacific countries at a
conference and exhibition in Singapore.
...
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The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee's Defense Subcommittee
Chairman Daniel Inouye on Tuesday denied allegations that fuel
provided by Japanese maritime vessels in the Indian Ocean was
i...
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ECB leaves benchmark interest rate unchanged at 4%
FRANKFURT - The European Central Bank left its benchmark
interest rate unchanged at 4 percent per annum on Thursday, in line
w...
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Strait of Malacca
Indonesia seeks E. Asian help to fight piracy in Malacca Strait
