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An oil tanker carrying 900,000 litres of diesel has been hijacked and taken into Indonesian waters, the Malaysian maritime authorities said on Tuesday (Aug 16).
Fishermen illegally operating in waters administered by China are going to face tougher sanctions than being merely driven off, as has been the common practice until now.
Health experts in Brazil have a word of advice for the Olympic marathon swimmers, sailors and windsurfers competing in Rio de Janeiro’s picture-postcard waters next month: Keep your mouth closed.
The Indonesian government on Monday called on the governments of the Philippines and Malaysia to step up security in their waters following the kidnapping of three Indonesian sailors by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants over weekend, an official said.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo will hold talks with military chiefs and foreign ministers from the Philippine and Malaysia this week to step up maritime security after the kidnapping of Indonesians at sea by Abu Sayyaf terrorist group.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday fired several short-range projectiles into its eastern waters, Yonhap news agency reported.
Iranian authorities on Wednesday released 10 U.S. sailors held a day earlier over violating the country's waters, Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards detained two U.S. boats with 10 crew aboard after the boats entered Iranian territorial waters in the Gulf "illegally," the country's semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday.
A Chinese navy flotilla that has been escorting commercial vessels in pirate-plagued Somali waters returned home on Friday, after its mission completed.
Indonesian rescuers searching for the missing AirAsia plane had spotted six bodies and pulled three from waters off the southern coast of Kalimantan island, Indonesia 's rescue regency said here on Tuesday.
Search and rescue operation for an AirAsia plane that went missing on Sunday with 162 people on board resumed on Monday morning, rescuer said here.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday strongly denounced South Korean shelling near its border, saying the Korean People's Army (KPA) was fully prepared to strike back, the official news agency KCNA reported.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and South Korea on Monday exchanged fire into the sea across the western maritime border, Yonhap news agency reported.
Britain's Foreign Office said Tuesday it is summoning Spanish ambassador after a Spanish ship entered waters off Gibraltar.
Chinese fishermen have been told to stop fishing in the waters off the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s east coast because of a bilateral dispute over fuel supplies.
The latest on a territorial dispute between China and Japan over an island chain in the East China sea.