Yu Mei, the wife of a fisherman in Zhoushan, East China’s Zhejiang Province, should have enjoyed her first family reunion in five years on Mid-Autumn Day, which fell on September 30 this year. However, a shadow has been cast over the traditional festival for Yu and her family, as they worry about her husband,…
Selat Badung, Bali (ANTARA News) – The United States warship, USS Green Bay (LPD-20), is making a four-day stop here as part of its sailing mission in the South East Asian region. “We are here from Thursday to Sunday (Oct.18-21) after visiting Hawaii and Timor Leste,” the ship`s field commander, Lt. Robinson, told the…
Piracy in west Africa is reaching dangerous proportions, the global piracy watchdog has said, with the increase in attacks fuelled by Nigerian criminals. As efforts continue to rescue seven foreign workers kidnapped from a vessel off the coast of Nigeria earlier this week, the director of the international maritime bureau (IMB) warned that the…
U.S. Navy Rear Admiral (Ret.) Terence E. “Terry” McKnight, the pioneering U.S. Commander of Task Force 151 off the coast of Somalia and the author of the new book, Pirate Alley, warned in an interview that caution ought to temper demands that—because piracy has declined somewhat in the Gulf of Aden and other places—the unique…