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Saudi navy seizes boat with weapons near offshore oilfield: SPA

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Bangladeshi fishing boat builders rely on traditional techniques

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Search continues for the missing in boat accident in Malaysia

Search efforts continue on Tuesday for the missing in the boat accident off Malaysia's Sabah state on North Borneo.

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Boat carrying Chinese tourists goes missing in Malaysia

A boat carrying 31 people, among them more than 20 tourists from China, has lost contact with the authorities since it sailed out from Kota Kinabalu (KK) in the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah on Saturday, the Consulate General of China in KK said on Sunday.

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Eight Philippine fishermen shot dead at sea

Eight local fishermen have been found shot dead in their boat off the piracy-plagued southern Philippines, the military said Tuesday.

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More than 20 killed, dozens injured after fire on Indonesian tourist boat

Twenty three people were killed and dozens injured on Sunday (Jan 1) after a fire ripped through a boat carrying nearly 250 people to islands north of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, the city's search and rescue agency said.

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Australia arrests ten Chinese on suspected drug smuggling boat

Ten Chinese nationals were arrested in a suspected drug smuggling operation on a large commercial boat seized off Australia’s southern coast, authorities said on Friday.

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Boat with up to 450 migrants capsizes off Egypt, 42 drowned

A boat carrying up to 450 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean off Egypt’s north coast on Wednesday, drowning 42 people and prompting a search operation that rescued 163 passengers, officials said.

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Singaporean boat captain faces jail for trespassing in Indonesia's waters

Indonesian prosecutors are demanding that a Singaporean boat captain, caught trespassing in Indonesia's waters, be jailed for eight years and his vessel blown up and sunk under the country's fishery laws.

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Australia reveals it has turned back 28 asylum seeker boats in past three years

The Australian government says it has turned back 28 boats to prevent asylum seekers from reaching Australia during three years in power, with the latest carrying 21 Vietnamese intercepted this month.

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10 confirmed dead, 5 still missing from SW China capsizing

Death toll from a leisure boat capsizing in southwest China's Sichuan Province rose to 10 after more bodies were found, rescuers said on Thursday.

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Sticky rice, madcap racing... it's Dragon Boat Festival

People across China are reconnecting with traditions to celebrate Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on Thursday this year.

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S.Korea returns back DPRK fishing boat crossing maritime border

​South Korea's military on Wednesday returned a Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fishing boat back to the north after the boat crossed the inter-Korean maritime border, Yonhap news agency reported.

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14 still missing from boat capsizing; search continues

Authorities on Sunday launched an investigation into a deadly boat accident in southwest Chinese province of Sichuan on Saturday, as 14 people including at least six children remained missing.

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Tourist boat with 41 people on board capsizes in Han river in central Vietnam

A tourist boat with 41 people on board capsized in Han River in Vietnam's central Da Nang city on Saturday night, reported an official online newspaper of Da Nang.

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One dead, 14 missing after leisure boat capsizes in China

A child was confirmed dead and 14 other people went missing after a leisure boat capsized on a lake in southwest China's Sichuan Province Saturday.

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Mediterranean shipwreck survivors haunted by cries of kids

It was the cries of children — and the moment they decided they must save themselves — that haunt the survivors of a shipwreck that claimed hundreds of lives.