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New Zealand navy sailors rescued from shipwreck off Samoa
Oct 06, 2024 (AFP)
Emergency services worked through the night to rescue dozens of crew from the smouldering and sinking HMNZS Manawanui after it struck the reef off the south coa...
Philippines condemns China attack of Vietnamese fishermen
Oct 04, 2024 (AFP)
Vietnam has accused "Chinese law enforcement forces" of beating the 10 fishermen with iron bars and robbing them of thousands of dollars' worth of fish and equi...
Vietnam condemns China's 'brutal behaviour' in fisher attack
Oct 02, 2024 (AFP)
The 10 fishermen were reportedly beaten with iron bars and robbed of thousands of dollars' worth of fish and equipment on Sunday off the Paracel Islands -- an a...
Vietnamese fishers attacked in South China Sea: state media
Oct 02, 2024 (AFP)
The men were reportedly beaten with iron bars and robbed of thousands of dollars' worth of fish and equipment on Sunday off the Paracel Islands -- an archipelag...
China conducts air, sea patrols near flashpoint reef
Sep 28, 2024 (AFP)
The patrols coincided with joint exercises carried out by the United States, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the Philippines in Manila's exclusive economic zo...
China denies U.S. claim that its newest nuclear submarine sank at pier
Sep 27, 2024 (UPI)
The sinking allegedly took place near the Chinese city of Wuhan around late May or early June. The attack submarine was the first of a new Zhou-class line of se...
China says 'supervised' Philippine supply mission to disputed reef
Sep 27, 2024 (AFP)
Beijing claims almost all of the economically vital waterway and continues to press its assertions there despite an international tribunal ruling that they have...
China covered up sinking of newest submarine: US official
Sep 26, 2024 (AFP)
The sinking at a shipyard earlier this year was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, which also said that satellite imagery later showed large floating cr...
Japan warship asserts right to sail through Taiwan Strait: media
Sep 26, 2024 (AFP)
Washington and its allies are increasingly crossing the 180-kilometre (112-mile) Taiwan Strait to reinforce its status as an international waterway, angering Be...
Xi says wants to deepen BRI cooperation with Sri Lanka under new leader
Sep 23, 2024 (AFP)
Dissanayaka, a self-avowed Marxist, took his oath at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo on Monday, vowing to restore public faith in politics. The country ...
Chinese navy sails between Japanese islands near Taiwan
Sep 18, 2024 (AFP)
Japan's government said it was the first time that a Chinese aircraft carrier, which was accompanied by two destroyers, entered its contiguous zone, an area up ...
US backs Philippine over China despite reef pullout
Sep 16, 2024 (AFP)
"There's no legal basis for the PRC's maritime claims in the South China Sea and the dangerous ways in which it attempts to enforce those claims put Filipino li...
Philippines says 'we have not lost' South China Sea reef after pullout
Sep 16, 2024 (AFP)
Manila had deployed the coast guard flagship BRP Teresa Magbanua to Sabina Shoal in April to stop Beijing from building an artificial island there, as it has at...
Philippine ship in standoff with China leaves flashpoint reef
Sep 15, 2024 (AFP)
The Philippine Coast Guard ship BRP Teresa Magbanua had been anchored inside Sabina Shoal since April to assert Manila's claims to the area and prevent China fr...
China says German naval ships in Taiwan Strait 'increase security risks'
Sep 14, 2024 (AFP)
"The German side's behaviour increases security risks and sends incorrect signals," Chinese military spokesperson Li Xi said in a statement. Beijing's troops in...
China to 'crush' foreign encroachment in South China Sea: military official
Sep 12, 2024 (AFP)
Washington and Beijing have verbally sparred over China's increasingly assertive approach in disputed maritime regions, including the South China Sea. In recent...
China, Philippines hold 'candid' talks on disputed shoal
Sep 11, 2024 (AFP)
Chinese vice foreign minister Chen Xiaodong met with his Philippine counterpart Maria Theresa Lazaro in Beijing, China's foreign ministry wrote in a statement. ...
Hong Kong diary shows China's little-known naval D-Day role
Sep 11, 2024 (AFP)
The ships were as "numerous as ants, scattered and wriggling all across the sea", Lam wrote in his diary. "Around 5 am: HMS Warspite was the first to open fire....
US military warns Beijing against 'dangerous' South China Sea moves in talks
Sep 10, 2024 (AFP)
Washington and Beijing remain at odds on issues from trade to the status of self-ruled Taiwan and China's increasingly assertive approach in disputed maritime r...
Russia, China join forces for major naval exercise
Sep 10, 2024 (AFP)
Moscow and Beijing have deepened military and economic cooperation in recent years, as both countries seek to counterbalance what they see as a United States-le...
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