Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) has published ‘Patterns and Trends of Situation on Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships in Asia for 2011’The scope of this highly interesting and recommended study is as follows. An analysis of: – Overall patterns and trends (2007-2011); – Situation Update […]
US to help PH gain credible defense
The United States has recently pledged to strengthen the nature of it’s military relationship with the Philippines in order to increase the country’s “minimum credible defense posture.” This move is in support of the Philippines territorial claims to what they know as the West Philippine Sea, but China has aggressively claimed as their own– deeming […]
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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