97 Chinese crewmen of the KAI XIN fishing vessel were rescued by the Norwegian ship JUVEL Wednesday morning after a fire broke out onboard the ship in Antarctic waters. A Chilean military tugboat is heading to Antarctica to help prevent an ecological disaster; the ship was drifting unmanned in zigzags near pointy glaciers. The…
* Fast, agile and stealthy warship has 91 people on board * Lockheed sees continued foreign interest from Asia, Middle East * Navy says program doing well after early struggles (Reuters) – The USS Freedom, the first of a new class of U.S. warships, is due to arrive in Singapore on Thursday for an…
A woman was killed and 25 people were missing after a boat carrying workers from a timber company sank on Wednesday on a river in East Kalimantan, an official said. Rescuers plucked 14 people to safety after the boat carrying 40 workers sank at around 6:00 p.m. as it traveled across the Mahakam River,…
Shanghai: The long term dispute between the Chinese government and Brazilian mining conglomerate Vale on the latter’s access right seems to have ended, with Vale Malaysia, one of Vale’s giant ore carriers, docking at Lianyungang Port on Monday. The 400,000dwt VLOC is said to have carried around 200,000 tons of iron ore and docked…