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India and Indonesia are weighing the prospect of joint patrols in the strategic Malacca Straits, a vital shipping lane and naval passageway linking the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
SIBU: A total of 94 incidents of armed robbery against ships were reported in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore in the first seven months of this year.
LUMUT, Malaysia — A thunderous roar echoed over the Malacca Strait as a U.S. Army High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, HIMARS, released a streak of precision firepower into the sky — a ...
LONG before fibre optic cables stitched the planet together, the waters of the Malacca Strait were humming with life.
On May 9, 1945, the Japanese heavy cruiser Haguro set out from Singapore, unaware that it would become part of a deadly ambush in the Malacca Strait. After several attempts to avoid the Allied ...
JASIN, Melaka – A World War II-era bomb weighing over 200kg has been discovered in Malaysia’s Melaka state at the Felda Senggeh settlement. Jasin police’s district commander, Superintendent ...
There were 80 incidents of piracy and armed robbery reported in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore (SOMS) in the first half of 2025.
This caution is evident in Indonesia’s current security arrangements. It cooperates in the Malacca Straits Patrol and the Trilateral Cooperation Agreement in the Sulu Sea – both with ASEAN neighbours, ...
SINGAPORE – The number of piracy and armed robbery cases in the straits of Malacca and Singapore in the first half of 2025 was four times that for the same period in the previous year. There ...
The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is now sailing in the Malacca Strait meanwhile, fixed-wing aircraft squadrons of Carrier Air Wing 5, assigned to aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73 ...
Indonesia's Angga Dwimas Sasongko is making a return to the director's chair with 'Queen of Malacca,' a crime-action thriller.