Questions Swirl About Damaged Japanese Tanker The New York Times | Shipping officials said Thursday that they were examining the hull of a Japanese oil tanker that was mysteriously damaged this week as it traversed a strategically vital waterway between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. The ship’s owner has said that it may have been attacked. | With the tank...
Japan supertanker probe reveals smashed hull The Star | FUJAIRAH/TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese supertanker that reported suffering an "explosion" near the Strait of Hormuz oil shipping route may have hit a submarine or a mine, UAE port officials examining the ship said on Thursday. | Damage to the massive crude carrier's hull suggested a collision, alth...
Japan supertanker probe reveals smashed hull The Star | FUJAIRAH/TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese supertanker that reported suffering an "explosion" near the Strait of Hormuz oil shipping route may have hit a submarine or a mine, UAE port officials examining the ship said on Thursday. | Damage to the massiv...
Submarine focus for US-South Korea military drill BBC News The US and South Korea practised anti-submarine drills on the second day of joint exercises aimed as a show of strength to North Korea. | Officials said the drills in the Sea of Japan focused on detecting and destroying enemy submarines. | They follo...
China ratcheting up regional tension Asahi News | In flexing its military muscle commensurate with its growing economic might, Beijing is causing tensions to rise dramatically in the South China Sea. | This is partly due to conflicting claims of sovereignty over the Spratley Islands, an area with ...
North Korea anger at US wargames Kenya Broadcasting Corp Written By:BBC , Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2010 | The US and South Korea's plans to hold joint military exercises pose a major danger to the region, Pyongyang says. | Some 20 ships and submarines and 100 aircraft are to take plac...
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US to widen sanctions against North Korea The Boston Globe | SEOUL - The Obama administration announced yesterday that it would impose further economic sanctions against North Korea, throwing legal weight behind a choreographed show of pre...
US sanctions a 'violation'of UN statement: N.Korea Breitbart | A North Korean soldier looks through a window of a UN truce village buildin... | New US sanctions against North Korea will violate a United Nations statement issued after the sin...
In Poster, North Korea Boasts of Ship Sinking The New York Times | SEOUL, South Korea — A propaganda poster recently smuggled out of North Korea depicts the North Korean military smashing an enemy warship in half, a scene evocative of the sinking of a South Korean warship earlier this year. | An image of the...
U.S. deploys 'new' submarines as a message to China Canada Dot Com | America's Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines and their Russian counterparts, the Typhoon class, are the perfect embodiments of the doctrine of mutually assured destruction. | They have no purpose but to lie unseen and undetectable on the seabe...
Luxury car buyers in 'cautious mood' due to govt's tax drive Malaya BY IRMA ISIP | Luxury car distributor Wellington Soong yesterday said the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) crackdown against tax evaders has dampened interest of buyers. | Soong, whose companies are the official distributors of European brands Jaguar, Land Rover, Ferrari and Maserati, said he has observed a "mood of cautiousness" amon...
Competing subsidies fail to ignite solar geysers Business Report | Submit your comment | Coming in the next five years to a roof near you: one of a million solar water heaters. That is the government's plan but there is no clarity on how the target is going to be met, as the industry is governed by an incomplete regulatory system and important policy decisions have yet to be taken. | Currently two program...
