Malaysia chokes on smoke from Sumatra forests

By MK Bhadrakumar "What's in a name?" - one might ask. There could be a lot. In Washington on the fateful day of May 20, President Barack Obama decided to use the name Myanmar to refer to what he had insisted on calling "Burma". The geopolitics of ...

The Indian Navy plans to deploy its medium-range Dornier surveillance aircraft at its furthest air station at Campbell Bay in the Andaman and Nicobar islands to keep a regular watch on the oil and cargo traffic passing through the strategic Malacca Strait and ...

AS the Straits of Malacca is undeniably critical to the shipping industry, the major ports along the 500-mile waterway are currently competing stiffly, ramping up their capacities this year, riding on the world economic recovery. Billions of ringgit ...

BEIJING, May 28 (Reuters) Top state energy group China National Petroleum Company has completed six oil storage tanks on an island off western Myanmar from which two pipelines will carry fuel to China, and will soon finish six more, an industry ...

India has dispatched four warships on a long overseas deployment through the strategic Malacca Strait to Malaysia, Vietnam and Philippines. NEW DELHI: India has dispatched four warships, including a frontline destroyer and a stealth frigate, on a long ...

GRAND: Kites, colour and spectacle at the Penang Esplanade GEORGE TOWN: STRONG winds from the Straits of Malacca made the Esplanade here the perfect spot to fly kites during the launch of the George Town Festival 2013 recently. A myriad of ...

YACHTING HUB: State plans to build marinas to attract 20pc of seafarers who pass by straits every year MALACCA: THE Malacca government is hoping to attract 20 per cent of more than 3,000 yachts passing through the Straits of Malacca each year with ...

The Admiralty Maritime Security Charts covering the waters around India and Southeast Asia, including the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, were launched at the Shared Awareness Meeting held by the Information Fusion Centre at the Changi Command and ...

If passed, a draft amendment to the Fisheries Act (漁業法) would give fishermen passing the Strait of Malacca or the Gulf of Aden the right to hire private armed escorts of foreign nationality, the Legislative Yuan said yesterday. However, if ...