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By Momin Iftikhar | “The sea is full of unseen treasures, but safety lies in the security of the shores.”   – (An Indian saying)   Through ages the South China Sea (SCS), lapping over the southern Chinese coast and dotted with more than 200 small islands of rock and reef, has been fabled as …

* Exercises follow U.S. plan for Marines in Australia * Chinese navy raises regional concerns By Michael Martina BEIJING, Nov 23 (Reuters) – China said on Wednesday it will conductnaval exercises in the western Pacific this month, an announcementthat came a week after Washington reinforced its Asia-Pacificfootprint with plans to operate 2,500 U.S. Marines out …

Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Soeparno said Indonesia still had many unresolved sea border problems with other countries that had the potential of triggering conflicts. Although some border settlement agreements had been reached at the recent 19th ASEAN Summit, there were still other problems that had not yet been completely settled, Soeparno said in a …

By Michael Martina (Reuters) – China said on Wednesday it will conduct naval exercises in the western Pacific this month, an announcement that came a week after Washington reinforced its Asia-Pacific footprint with plans to operate 2,500 U.S. Marines out of northern Australia. Beijing emphasized its right to carry out the regular annual drills despite …

IT IS my intention today to examine, in particular, the future and importance of forging a new stability in Asia. Sometimes it is useful to spend a minute on definitions. To us in India, Asia has always meant the entire continent, not just the eastern part of it as seen from across the Pacific. At the …

BEIJING (Reuters) – China said Wednesday it will go ahead with naval exercises in the western Pacific this month, an announcement that came a week after Washington reinforced its Asia-Pacific footprint with plans to operate 2,500 U.S. Marines out of northern Australia. Beijing emphasized its right to go carry out the regular annual drills despite …

Lagos – A summit of West African leaders will take place in early 2012 to discuss efforts to address a recent upsurge in sea piracy in the region, a statement from regional bloc Ecowas said on Monday. The summit “is being planned in the first quarter of 2012 to get the political support of regional …

China’s invocation of “history” to claim sovereignty over the South China Sea found no takers at the East Asia Summit in Bali on November 18 and 19. And as the first American president to attend the summit, of which India was one of the founding members in 2005, Barack Obama ignored a Chinese warning that ‘external’ powers should not interfere in …

Philippine President Benigno Aquino asked his visiting counterpart from South Korea on Monday for aircraft, boats and other hardware to help boost his country’s military, amid rising tensions with China. Aquino said he and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak discussed their respective regional security concerns, which for the Philippines is the disputed South China Sea, …

Three Navy amphibious ships that left Norfolk ahead of schedule in March are set to stay at sea into February, which would make their cruise the longest ship deployment in decades. The amphibious assault ship Bataan, the amphibious transport dock ship Mesa Verde and the dock landing ship Whidbey Island left Norfolk Naval Station on …