Spratly Islands

17 May 2013

A Vietnamese court has sentenced two student activists to six and eight years in prison for distributing leaflets calling on people to demonstrate against China. The sentences, handed down...

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Taiwan stages live-fire exercises in hotly contested Spratly Island chain

23 Apr 2013

Taiwan's coastguard said yesterday that Taipei had staged a live-fire drill within a hotly contested island chain in the South China Sea, in a move that risks stoking regional tensions. More than...

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Taiwan plans to expand pier in disputed islands

7 Apr 2013

Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration has budgeted NT$19 million (US$640,000) to evaluate the project, which is part of its efforts to boost defence capabilities in the disputed area this year.

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Spratly Islands dispute defines China-Vietnam relations 25 years after naval clash

17 Mar 2013

The 25th anniversary this past week of the naval clash between China and Vietnam in the Spratly Islands is not merely cause to reflect on history; it speaks to one of the more disturbing...

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Protest in Vietnam marks anniversary of clash with China at Spratly Islands

15 Mar 2013

China and Vietnam have been locked in long-standing territorial disputes over the Spratlys, also known as the Nansha Islands, and often trade diplomatic barbs over oil exploration and fishing...

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Vietnam anti-China activists mark island battle

14 Mar 2013

Activists in Hanoi chanted anti-China slogans and laid flowers on Thursday at a protest marking the anniversary of a battle over the contested Spratly Islands in which 64 Vietnamese soldiers died...

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Japan to give patrol boats to Manila amid China tensions

Japan plans to donate patrol boats costing US$11 million each to the Philippines, ramping up regional efforts to monitor China’s maritime activity in disputed waters, a newspaper said on Monday....

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Long way to joint Asean claim on Spratly Islands

Raking over the embers of a volatile year between Asean and China over South China Sea disputes, it is clear a few at least still flicker with life.

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China decries attempts to 'read too much into' passport map

China said on Wednesday that people should not read too much into the placement of a new map in its passports that depicts claims to disputed maritime territory.

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TERRITORIAL DISPUTES

US to raise passports row with China, calling it 'unhelpful'

The United States plans to raise controversial new Chinese passports with Beijing, saying the documents featuring a map laying claim to disputed islands, were not helpful.

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SOUTH CHINA SEA

Asia's fishermen in middle of South China Sea row

When gun-toting Chinese guards spotted Tran Hien's unarmed wooden fishing boat in disputed waters, they seized his vessel, detained his crew and threw him in jail.

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TERRITORIAL DISPUTE

No major troop escalation in Spratlys, Philippines says

The Philippine military said it had sent fewer than 100 Marines to help guard disputed South China Sea islands, while emphasising it had no plans for a major troop build-up in the area.

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