Fishery has added more strain to Beijing’s long-running spat with neighbors in the South China Sea. The string of recent incidents in the disputed waters is no coincidence but evidence of some underly ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-05
The United States has told China it will not recognize an exclusion zone in the South China Sea and would view such a move as "destabilizing", US Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work said. US offic ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-31
... ed to the sea". The headline ran a day after Xi's media tour. -- Contact us at [email protected] EL/AC/RA ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-29
Japan has switched on a radar station near the disputed islands in the East China Sea, drawing an angry response from Beijing, Reuters reports. The new Self Defence Force base on the island of Yonagun ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-29
North Korea launched five short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast on Monday, a show of defiance as it faces tighter sanctions following its nuclear and rocket tests earlier this year. ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-22
... uth China Sea have raised questions about China’s commitment to the rule of law. The [British] foreign secretary raised both these issues with counterparts during his visit to China in January. Hong K ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-21
... ty at the sea was only 50 meters. The hydrofoil, which was carrying 67 passengers and seven crew members at the time, managed to arrive in Macau with no injuries reported to those onboard. But the ves ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-21
North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Friday that flew about 800 kilometers (500 miles) off its east coast into the sea, South Korea's military said, days after fresh US sanctions were imposed on t ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-18
SeaWorld said it will stop breeding killer whales in captivity, bowing to years of pressure from animal rights activists, Reuters reports. But the killer whales, also known as orcas, that are already ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-18
Japan's ruling party urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government on Wednesday to consider seeking international arbitration over Beijing's drilling activities in the disputed East China Sea, Reuters ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-16
... t to turn sea water into fresh water. When Singapore left the Malaysian Federation in the 1960s to go it alone, it didn't go thirsty or hungry. They have kept their border open to allow the flow of go ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-16
... mage of a sea burial on the front page. - Contact us at [email protected] EL/AC/RC ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-14
... to rising sea levels and violent weather. Receding Himalayan glaciers will disrupt the lives – and livelihoods – of some 600 million people in Pakistan, Nepal, and northern India. The political obstac ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-14
... Paulo, a sea of protesters wearing Brazil's yellow-and-green national colors chanted "Dilma out" and waved banners that read "Stop the corruption" while music blared from nearby trucks. "The country ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-14
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
