Japan's Defense Minister Nakatani Gen has agreed with his Indonesian counterpart to step up bilateral cooperation in the ...

It is about 96 miles long and only 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, with shipping lanes in each direction ... a day that went through the the Strait of Malacca, a major international waterway ...

Near the Horn of Africa or the Strait of Malacca ... is stretched securing not just shipping lanes but also undersea data cables and gas pipelines that have become equally important to economic ...

The Malacca Strait, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, along with the Singapore Strait, continues to be a focal point for piracy, primarily due to the high volume of commercial traffic and ...