The Philippines have looked to deter Chinese aggression around islands it claims as its own in the South China Sea by putting up buoys in a show of ownership, as Beijing continues to threaten its sovereignty in the region. Five buoys carrying
A British wildlife group is seeking a person willing to spend 13 months on one of the remotest islands in the world to study its bird population. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) posted a job listing for a
A strong earthquake shook parts of Indonesia’s main island of Java and tourist island of Bali on Friday, causing panic but there were no immediate reports of serious damage or casualties. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.0 quake was centered
China threatened the U.S. Navy on Friday with “serious consequences” after a warship passed through the South China Sea near the contested Paracel Islands. For the second day in a row, Beijing accused the U.S. of violating the sovereignty and security of
The U.S. military has denied Chinese claims that American warships were chased away from disputed islands in the South China Sea. China’s Southern Theatre Command claimed that it forced the USS Milius, a guided-missile destroyer part of the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet,
China on Wednesday secured another win in the South Pacific after it won a multimillion-dollar bid in the Solomon Islands to upgrade an international port in the capital city of Honiara. The project will be funded by the Asian Development Bank and was
In the past month, bed and breakfast owner Chen Yu-lin had to tell his guests he couldn’t provide them with the internet. Others living on Matsu, one of Taiwan’s outlying islands closer to neighboring China, had to struggle with paying electricity bills,
James Cleverly has insisted the Falklands are British after Argentina tore up a cooperation agreement and pushed for fresh talks on the sovereignty of the islands. Argentinian Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero told his British counterpart about the decision when they met on
The number of official islands in Japan is expected to double from 6,852 to 14,125 after the government conducted the first survey since 1987 of its territorial waters, according to Kyodo News. Japan, a mountainous nation with a land mass of about
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