It's only a few hundred miles long, but when a natural disaster strikes near the Malacca Strait, the consequences could be global, writes Tom Ough. Every year, approximately 90,000 ships pass ...

The Strait of Malacca is an 805-km stretch of water that falls between the Malay Peninsula on the northeast and the Indonesian island of Sumatra on the southwest. It connects the Andaman Sea in ...

26 February 2013 TEHRAN - The Navy's 24th fleet of warships, comprised of the Sabalan destroyer and the Khark helicopter carrier, is passing through the Strait of Malacca, which is a narrow, 805 km ...

Chief Minister Datuk Seri Idris Haron said finer details of the project linking Teluk Gong in Malacca in the peninsula to the port of Dumai, in Sumatra, would be revealed when all mechanisms were ...

The Strait of Malacca is a 620-mile-long waterway between ... First, although the Malay Peninsula is only 26.5 miles wide at its narrowest point, (from the Kra River estuary to the Bay of Sawi ...

Though Europeans secured a footing in this Peninsula four centuries ago, the survey of its vegetation was long deferred. The Portuguese, who occupied Malacca in 1511, had done little before their ...

Many, however, have forgotten the long-overdue proposed bridge project across the Strait of Malacca connecting the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. If built, will this bridge become an imposing ...

which is closest to Penang on the Malaysian Peninsula, did not detect any aircraft in the Malacca Strait area under its coverage, around the time Flight 370 was lost early last Saturday.