February 2013 The Zafirah, an oil tanker that was recently raided by pirates, should serve as a serious warning to any shipping vessels traveling across Southeast Asian waters. The cumbersome tanker was in South Vietnamese waters travelling at a crawl ing pace when it was boarded by a group of 11 armed pirates, who quickly set the 9 member crew […]
Much at Stake
Maritime security in Southeast Asia has recently become one of the foremost areas of geopolitical intrigue and is the breeding ground for several issues that could be potentially explosive in the region. As always, economics and resources play a big factor– recent discovery of enormous gas and oil reserves in the South China Sea has […]
Maritime security concerns grow
The deputy foreign ministers and other senior foreign ministry officials of several Southeast Asian countries met in the Philippines on Wednesday to try and solve several maritime disputes which have ignited tensions and threaten regional stability. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will host a three-day maritime forum that will focus on maritime security, piracy, […]
Burmese sailors set adrift in lifeboat
On Thursday, rescuers retrieved nine sailors– five Burmese and four Indonesian– who were drifting on a lifeboat in South Vietnamese waters for four days. The sailors had been attacked by pirates who hijacked their vessel and left them adrift at sea. Allegedly the sailors to control of Captain Sann Winnaug’s oil tanker Zafirah just two days after it had left […]
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