KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian maritime authorities said they arrested six Indonesians attempting to rob a ship in the Strait of Malacca, the latest in a surge of piracy attacks in the strategic waterway. The suspects were spotted by Malaysian patrols early Sunday morning as they tried to board a merchant vessel off southern Johor state […]
Ajai Shukla / New Delhi Since Independence, India has treated its north-eastern states as unproductive black holes into which New Delhi pours vast amounts of treasure and obtains resentful ingratitude in return. But this backwater is in focus after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s successful visit to Dhaka earlier this month, which has not just built […]
By ANDREW HIGGINS, The Washington Post PUERTO PRINCESA, PHILIPPINES — When China’s largest offshore petroleum producer launched a $1 billion oil rig this summer from Shanghai, Lt. Gen. Juancho Sabban, the commander of Philippine military forces 1,500 miles away in the South China Sea, began preparing for trouble. The drilling platform, said China, would soon […]
Inaugural events are always the best…Its always good to set sail on a voyage to new and exciting destinations. Twenty sailing and motor yachts will be embarking on the 265 nautical mile race/rally across the Northern reaches of the Malacca Strait from Langkawi, North West Malaysia to Sabang on Weh Island, Northern Sumatra. The Royal […]
Last month, the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis rendezvoused in the Pacific with Carrier Strike Group-3, which is composed of the guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay and the USS Pinckney, USS Kidd, USS Dewey and USS Wayne Meyer. Carrier Strike Group-3 will soon take up station in the Arabian Sea to support American combat […]
BEIJING (Nikkei)–China has started building alternative routes to import energy resources without passing through the Strait of Malacca. Roads, railways and pipelines are being built to connect three key ports in the Indian Ocean via land. Pakistani Ambassador to China Masood Khan told The Nikkei in an interview that feasibility studies have started on a […]
MICHAEL BYERS From Monday’s Globe and Mail “We are men of action. We get things done.” With those words, Ahmed Ali Al-Subaey, the Saudi-born CEO of South Korea’s largest oil company, set the tone for a conference on Arctic shipping held, significantly, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Most of the world’s cargo […]
Farish A Noor advises the scholars who claimed that British Malaya was never truly a colonial construct to take a trip to the library. In all honesty, I really have many other things to do than waste my time commenting on what has to be one of the most inane and counter-productive debates in Malaysian politics […]
SINGAPORE (Kyodo) — Pirates attempted to attack a Japanese-operated chemical tanker in the Strait of Malacca on Friday, a Singapore-based anti-piracy watchdog said Monday. Panama-flagged “Ginga Falcon,” a 13,292 gross ton vessel, was anchored in port waters of Indonesia’s Pulau Karimun Besar Island when it was attacked by three pirates shortly after midnight. But the […]