Piracy in Southeast Asia, meanwhile, is accelerating. Attacks and attempted attacks in the waters of Indonesia — which controls much of the Malacca Strait and its environs — totaled 107 last year.

Recent reports show that from January until June this year, 56 cases of piracy had taken place in the Malacca Strait. Of this number, 21 were cases of suspected piracy, 22 were attempted piracies ...

July 3, 2014: The international effort to suppress Somali piracy halted and reversed the increased piracy off the coast of Somalia but at the same time there has been a major increase in attacks in ...

Piracy has surged this year along Southeast Asia’s Straits of Malacca and Singapore, one of the world’s busiest trade routes, according to a watch group that tracks maritime security.

MALACCA: The Straits of Malacca is safe, free from piracy threat to ships passing through for various commercial activities, said Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai (pic). The Transport Minister said ...

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 ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Incidents of piracy in the Straits of Malacca have dropped drastically due to joint initiatives by the littoral states to guard the world’s vital channel, Deputy Prime Minister Tan ...

he spike in maritime piracy incidents over the last three months in the Strait of Malacca, one of the world’s busiest commercial sea-lanes, is alarming at a time of simmering tensions in the ...

As the vessel churned slowly northward through choppy waters of the Strait of ... ships.In the Strait of Malacca, whose waters are considered the most pirated in the world, his services as director of ...

Unfortunately, this region, and this narrow stretch of water, is increasingly susceptible to vulnerability such as geopolitical events, military conflict, piracy, and the effects of climate change. A ...