Syrian political experts have stressed that China has a full right of sovereignty over the South China Sea territories, pointing out that the United States works to create "tension spots" with its allies to affect China politically and economically.
An old map published in 1899 by geographer J. Martin Miller shows that islands in the South China Sea have never been Philippine territory, Zeng Yingjing, the owner of the map, has told Xinhua.
An Egyptian court sentenced Saturday 51 people to two years in prison over late April's illegal protest against Egypt's recent transfer of two islands to Saudi Arabia, official MENA news agency reported.
Since mid-1950s, the Philippines and South Vietnam started their encroachment of the Nansha Islands. In 1956, Tomas Cloma, a Filipino adventurer announced his discovery of a group of islands in the Nansha waters, and renamed them "Freedomland".
Although icy relations between Russia and Japan show signs of warming after Friday's fence-mending visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, territorial disputes will continue to cast a shadow over the rapprochement.
Police have stepped up security measures on Koh Samui island in preparation for the Songkran festival, when large number of travelers are expected to visit the popular island in the Gulf of Thailand.
Two military aircraft of the United States allegedly violated Finnish air space on Sunday, the Finnish government said.
China's construction on its own islands and reefs in the South China Sea is lawful and justified, as it is merely building facilities in its own yard.
South Korea's military on Friday conducted a live-fire drill in islands near the disputed inter- Korean maritime border despite the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s condemnation against it.
Japan, rather than China, is the country that has unilaterally "altered the status quo" in the East China Sea region in a longstanding dispute with China over the Diaoyu Islands.
A Japanese scholar has said that the disputed islands between Japan and China are not Japanese inherent territories and he questioned statements by the Japanese Foreign Ministry on the disputed issue through his recent researches.
The islanders of Malvinas, known as the Falklands in Britain, on Monday voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to keep the disputed territory under British rule.
China says it's on high alert for any move by Japan to prevent its patrols around the Diaoyu Islands, after Tokyo suggested it would interrupt Chinese ships and planes in the area.
China says it is conducting a survey of islands in the East China Sea known as the "Diaoyu Dao" in Chinese to "safeguard China's marine rights."
Argentina's Foreign Ministry on Sunday condemned what it called "the military threats of British Prime Minister David Cameron in relation to Great Britain's illegal occupation of the Malvinas Islands for the past 180 years."
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