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RI seizes 93 foreign ships: Bakorkamla spokesman

Indonesia, through its National Maritime Security Coordinating Board or Bakorkamla, has from January to August 2011 ...

Somali pirates free Maltese bulk carrier

Somali pirates have freed a Maltese owned and registered bulk carrier after the payment of a ransom by its owners, the ...

25 people found dead on Italy refugee boat

Italian coast guards found 25 dead bodies in the hold of a refugee boat with 271 people crammed on board that arrived ...

Honduras intercepts drug submarine

Honduras has intercepted a submarine used to smuggle drugs from Colombia, officials said late Wednesday. Defense ...

Indonesia, Australia call on peace in South China Sea

Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa and his Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd called on the related parties with an ...

Pirates attack oil tanker off Yemen, crew safe - (d)

Pirates fired a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) into a fuel oil tanker near the Yemeni port of Aden on Wednesday ...

US senate deplores China action in South China Sea

The US Senate on Monday unanimously approved a resolution that "deplores the use of force" by Chinese vessels in ...

Indonesian naval ships arrest 22 Philippine fishing boats

Indonesian naval patrol boats have arrested 22 Philippine vessels in the Indonesian side of the border area in 2011, ...

Deaths of seafarers in Somali pirate attacks soar

The number of seafarers killed due to Somali piracy has escalated in the past four years, with 62 merchant sailors ...

Somali pirates free German ship after ransom paid

Somali pirates have freed a German-owned cargo ship, seized in April, after they received a ransom, a pirate and ...

China stages military drills in South China Sea

China staged three days of military exercises in the South China Sea and plans to boost its offshore maritime patrol ...

Pirated ship catches fire off Somalia, crew rescued

Somali pirates rescued nineteen crew members of the MV ORNA after their hijacked ship caught fire off the Horn of ...

Vietnam to hold live-fire drill amid China dispute

Vietnam is set to hold live-fire naval drills on Monday in the South China Sea, as tensions with Beijing reach their ...

Corruption defendant Syamsul Arifin`s health in critical condition

The health of suspended North Sumatra Governor Syamsul Arifin who is on trial for alleged corruption involving ...

RI to assign third warship to duty in UNIFIL

Indonesia is to send another warship to Lebanon soon to strengthen the maritime arm of the United Nations peacekeeping ...