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Submission: Fast Track Approvals Bill

Kota Kinabalu: The High Court on Monday allowed the application by Sabah Action Body Advocating Rights (Sabar) to amend its originating summons, challenging the Territorial Sea Act 2012 (TSA), to add certain articles of the Federal Constitution.

Introduction China has been constructing artificial islands and building military bases in the South China Sea (SCS), in order to consolidate its position in the region. China's activity completely disregards the historic ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague in 2016, which favored the Philippines in its claims in the West Philippine Sea.[1] The ruling

Two Ghana Navy Ships, Ankobrah and Volta, have successfully sailed across the Equator to touch the Centre of the Earth at Longitude and Latitude...

On February 7, 2024, an overturned vessel off the southern shores of Tobago caused a catastrophic spill with oil-like substance, leading Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Keith Rowley to declare a national emergency. Distressing photographs...

The clash is a milestone for Hanoi’s South China Sea claims – but marking its 50th anniversary requires discussing the government of South Vietnam. 

Taiwan's military drove away four attempts by Chinese forces to approach the island's sensitive contiguous zone last month, Taiwan security officials said, in what they see as a ramped-up Chinese campaign to "intimidate" voters before key elections. Taiwan officials have repeatedly warned that China is trying to sway voters toward candidates seeking closer ties with Beijing, whose government has framed the Jan. 13 presidential and parliamentary elections as a choice between ...

Kota Kinabalu: A civil action filed by Sabah Action Body Advocating Rights (Sabar) disputing the validity of the Territorial Sea Act 2012 (TSA), which limits the State’s maritime boundary to only three nautical miles, was heard in the High Court here Monday.

KOTA KINABALU (Oct 16): The High Court here on Monday fixed January 31, 2024 for oral submissions of an originating summons filed by registered trustees of Sabah Action Body Advocating Rights (SABAR) to get declarations that Continental Shelf and Petroleum Mining Acts 1966 are inapplicable in Sabah

WITH our disputes over the South China Sea territorial and maritime disputes again hogging the front pages, I am again astonished at the massive misinformation on the issue, a testament indeed to the tremendous power of the US and its propaganda apparatus.