Indian Navy’s largest war game begins in Andaman Zeenews Port Blair: Exercise Milan, the largest four-day naval war game hosted by India started on Friday with the participation of 12 navies of the Asia-Pacific region within the context of the Indian Navy’s “Look East” policy and naval interactions to this effect. | Milan is a biennial gathering of ...
As 'shabu' price rises, Ecstasy use up Malaya | By VERA Files | (First of two parts) | The trade in crystal methamphetamine hydrochloride or "shabu" in the Philippines has grown into a P1 billion-a-day industry, but the drug has now become more expensive, making it "the poor man's cocaine no more," antinarcotics officials and international drug...
Australia for joint task force with India to counter maritime terror DNA India | Port Blair: Australia's diplomatic relations with India may have come under strain over recent racial attack on Indians there, but the military relations is soaring to new heights, with their navy looking at a joint task force in Asia-Pacific r...
Navy for partnership in Indian Ocean region The Hindu | K. V. Prasad | Admiral Verma against playing headmaster with other countries | Navy can assume greater role in the region: Pentagon | Grouping of navies not a security bloc, says | Navy Chief | PORT BLAIR: Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma on Friday ...
Navies of 13 countries in joint exercise off Andaman islands m&c | New Delhi - The navies of 13 Asia-Pacific countries gathered off India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands Friday for a regional exercise in coordinated disaster response, news reports said. | Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, My...
Navy Chief says Milan not a security bloc Newstrack India | Port Blair, Feb 5 (ANI): Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma on Friday said that Exercise Milan, the largest naval conglomeration hosted by India, is not a security bloc aimed at any particular country, specially China and its increasing influence in t...
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EU: Somali pirates free Thai fishing boat The Guardian | KATHARINE HOURELD | Associated Press Writer= NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somali pirates freed a Thai fishing vessel they held for more than four months after receiving a ransom, the ...
No stink in Century Park deal The Daily Tribune | BLURBAL THRUSTS | 03/07/2010 | At first glance, the graft charges filed recently before the Office of the Ombudsman against Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim, Vice Mayor Isko Moreno as we...
Erap-Binay tandem sees higher ratings ahead The Daily Tribune | 03/07/2010 | The opposition tandem of former President Joseph Estrada and Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay expects to eat away a bigger slice of leaders in the periodic surveys as elec...
Two trading ships detained The Star | IPOH: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency has detained two trading ships and its crew members believed to be transferring oil dregs illegally near Pangkor Island. | A maritme officer said they discovered the illegal activity about three nauti...
Money at the heart of govt The Star | The fiscal gap, the difference between the states' domestic revenue and their expenditure, ranges between 15% and 75% of their total expenditure. | KELANTAN has a long-standing and popularly backed claim for royalty for petroleum extracted off its ...
Kevin Rudd and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's plan to stop people smuggling The Daily Telegraph Australia | PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will formalise an agreement to combat people smuggling today. | Dr Yudhoyono will make history as the first Indonesian head of state to address a joint sitting of the Austr...
Brain behind Bali blasts killed, says Indonesia The Times Of India JAKARTA: Indonesian counter-terrorism forces on Tuesday killed a man who was believed to have been one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings during a raid in the capital Jakarta, police and reports said. | The man was among three people killed in two raids on the city's outskirts. Police did not disclose the identities of the three, saying "...
Thai ship free after ransom - Somali pirates The Star | MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia pirates said they had released the Thai-flagged Thai Union 3 ship on Sunday after receiving a $3 million ransom. | The tuna fishing vessel belonging to Asia's biggest canned tuna exporter, Thai Union Frozen Products, was seized on October 29, 2009 with 23 Russians, two Filipinos and two Ghanaians on board. | "We have...
