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The base in Bintulu, Sarawak will be strategically located just 80 nautical miles (148km) from the South Luconia Shoals – known as Beting Patinggi Ali to Malaysia. This area is claimed by Beijing as its southernmost territory but lies within Malaysia’s 200 nautical-mile exclusive economic zone.
In a report assessing the risk of potential regional conflicts over the next six months, the International Crisis Group think tank says tensions could rise further in the disputed waterway, particularly within the Philippines’ 200 nautical-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ), where confrontations between Beijing and Manila have occurred around several disputed shoals.
The state, governed by the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) since 1990, imposes strict rules on entertainment, including bans on pubs and discotheques and prohibitions on any activity deemed to clash with the tenets of Islam.
Kiribati, a Pacific Ocean neighbour of Hawaii with a vast exclusive economic zone of 3.6 million square km (1.4 million square miles) has developed close ties to Beijing in recent years, including hosting Chinese police.
Japan’s 89-year-old former empress Michiko, the mother of Emperor Naruhito, will undergo surgery after falling at home and breaking her right leg, the imperial household said on Monday.
A panel discussion in Myanmar about female leadership had two speakers. Both were male.
Australian mining tycoon Andrew Forrest, founder and executive chairman of Fortescue, says it is time for the world to walk away from the "proven fantasy" of net zero emissions by 2050 and to embrace "real zero" by 2040 instead.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that it spotted two Russian ships and two Chinese vessels passing through the Bering Sea in formation on Saturday, in a sign of the growing cooperation between Beijing and Moscow in the Arctic.