... e Andaman Sea, was quoted as saying. Lewa said an estimate she made a week ago that 8,000 migrants were still at sea was likely too low. – Contact us at [email protected] FL/ ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-12
... uth China Sea. (Spoiler alert: The PLA Navy’s ability to perform these missions is modest at best.) As expected, China is also focusing on counter-space, offensive cyber operations, and electronic war ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-12
... idents at Sea agreements. The first formal arms-control agreement was the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty, which can be considered mainly an environmental treaty. The second major agreement was the 1968 ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-12
... place its Sea Knight helicopters at Futenma air base in Okinawa with V-22 Ospreys in 2012 prompted a public outcry on the island as well as in communities in mainland Japan that host US bases. Leon Pa ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-12
... the Aceh Search and Rescue Agency. Some of the migrants, who left Thailand a week ago, died during the journey, authorities said. Of those rescued, 50 were taken to hospital. "In general, they were s ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-11
... he Baltic sea off Sweden are demanding it, pronto. In fact, the mistake has been riling up the islanders for weeks since they began to notice it in their posts in which Facebook lists their location ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
Last week, on the eve of an annual ASEAN summit meeting, Beijing warned the 10-nation grouping to “refrain from entangling itself” in rows with China, which risked “win-win cooperation” with the emerg ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
... ursue overseas studies are opting to return home after graduation. The so-called "returning sea turtles", or Haiguipai “海歸派” , enjoy some recognition as they seek to develop their careers in mainland ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
If you stand on the tree-lined waterfront Lovers Walk in central Zhuhai, you can see three giant construction projects. One is the bridge to Hong Kong, another an opera house in the shape of two sea s ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
US President Barack Obama accused China of "flexing its muscles" through territorial claims and the building of new islands in disputed waters in the South China Sea. "There are some real tensions tha ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-29
The Philippines called on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to speak in one voice and urge China to halt land reclamation activities in the South China Sea. In a speech to foreign min ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-27
Three women have been jailed after they filmed themselves twerking near a World War II monument in Novorossiysk, Russia, the Guardian reported. A court in the Black Sea port city sentenced Margarita R ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-27
Beijing has defended the actions of its vessels in the disputed South China Sea after Manila accused the Chinese coast guard of using water cannon and other aggressive tactics against Philippine fishi ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-23
... alone and sea cucumber, and an increasing demand for them fueled by wealthy Chinese tourists. A set menu could cost diners 2,800 pounds a head, he said. Royal China Club has not removed the soup from ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-21
The European Union promised a set of measures to address the region's growing migration crisis, aiming to stem the flood of people risking the deadly sea-crossing to Europe, the Wall Street Journal re ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-21
A mainland woman has boasted of adventure on the high seas as she claimed that she attempted to sail to the Huangyan Island to assert the nation's rights over the territory. Huangyan Island, also know ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-20
... e Arabian Sea with China's far-western Xinjiang region. It would shorten the route for China's energy imports, bypassing the Straits of Malacca between Malaysia and Indonesia, a bottleneck at risk of ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-17
China has made rapid progress in building an airstrip suitable for military use in disputed South China Sea waters. Work is progressing on a runway on reclaimed part of Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-17
China could use islands it is building in the South China Sea to enforce an exclusion zone over the disputed territory. Adm. Samuel Locklear, the United States military commander for Asia, told a cong ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-16
... ns in the Sea of Japan and to Alaska and the US West Coast. Locklear told a Washington congressional hearing Russian warships were deployed in the Asia-Pacific and the expected fielding of Moscow's ne ...More
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