China plans to set up an "international maritime judicial center" to help protect the country's sovereignty and rights at sea, its top judge said Sunday. Giving a work report at the annual meeting of ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-14
China is "resolutely" opposed to an agreement in which the Philippines will lease five aircraft from Japan to help patrol the disputed South China Sea. Philippine President Benigno Aquino said the fiv ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-11
China will be able to launch military attacks from artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea within months, according to US intelligence. It can project "substantial offensive military po ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-11
... the cross-sea bridge project sought permission to import 575 foreign workers. That has fueled worries among some local groups. Wong Wai-man, director of the Bar Bending Solidarity Union, said it is u ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-10
North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea Thursday, its latest salvo in a series of provocative actions that are ratcheting up tensions on the divided peninsula. The projectile ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-10
... ast China Sea islets. While ties have been thawing, with meetings between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping recently, Beijing remains deeply suspicious of Tokyo, espe ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-08
... number of sea birds lying dead on a beach on an island that is among the UNESCO World Heritage-listed sites. Over 200 pieces of plastics were found in a bird’s stomach, Leeson and the researchers foun ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-05
... e illegal sea transit of migrants from Turkey to Greece, Reuters quoted Tusk as saying after meeting Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Ankara and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens. ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-04
Southeast Asian nations avoid confronting China over the disputed South China Sea because of the country's sheer clout, former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad said. While countries like Malaysia may ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-03
China must refrain from aggressive actions in the South China Sea region, including the placement of surface-to-air missiles on a disputed island, US Defense Secretary Ash Carter said, warning that mi ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-02
... uth China Sea remain as deep as ever. And, on the heels of Wang’s departure from Washington, the US State Department condemned China on human rights. On Thursday last week, Samantha Power, the US amba ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
... uth China Sea and were worth about HK$5,000. In February last year, a seafood restaurant in the district lost lobsters and crabs weighing about 20 kilograms to two thieves, who were identified and arr ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
Southeast Asian nations expressed serious concern about growing international tension over disputed waters in the South China Sea. Friction has increased over China's recent deployment of missiles and ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
As sea levels rise, threatening cities from New York to Shanghai, the economic damage will increase even faster, scientists said on Monday. Extreme floods whipped up by storms will become ever more co ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
... osing his seat in parliament. Lord Patten, as he became, was not only the most powerful governor Hong Kong ever had but he also came without ties to the old order and benefited from a direct line of ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-27
... king as a seaman and a fireman for a British shipping company in the 1910s. They were soon promoted as supervisors. Later they opened a recruitment agency for foreign steamships and made a fortune. Th ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-27
China has begun construction of a logistics base in Djibouti, its first military facility overseas. The facility will be used primarily for military rest and resupply in carrying out naval escort, pea ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-26
Australia will boost defense spending by A$29.9 billion (US$21.5 billion) over the next decade, including increasing naval capacity as concern over Chinese militarization in the South China Sea intens ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-25
China says media are ignoring radars and weapons deployed by other claimants in the South China Sea, and unfairly targeting China, following reports of its deployment of fighter jets and radars in the ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-25
The United States will increase its freedom-of-navigation operations in the South China Sea amid worries over China's military buildup in the disputed waters, a senior Pentagon official said. "We will ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-25
