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By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — A Chinese shipbuilder failed to make a bond payment due Monday, becoming the second such company to default in the

by Peter Apps (Reuters) For all the focus on terrorism, one of the most striking features of the last decade is that the risk of war between the world’s

By Yuji Nakamura (Bloomberg) Japan said two Chinese vessels entered Japanese territorial waters near the disputed “Senkaku” or “Diaoyu” islands in the

ATHENS, Aug 5 (Reuters) – China COSCO Shipping, which owns the world’s fourth largest container fleet in terms of capacity, is expected to wrap up

By Peter Coy (Bloomberg) The U.S. and other coastal nations could lose millions of square nautical miles of ocean that are now in their exclusive economic

BEIJING, July 21 (Reuters) – Up to eight Chinese ships will offer cruises to the South China Sea over the next five years, a state-run newspaper said on

By David Fickling (Bloomberg Gadfly) — Think China’s plans to build railways across central Asia will be a boon for global trade? Consider this:

By Alister Doyle OSLO, July 18 (Reuters) – A boom in shipping is aggravating air pollution in China and other nations in East Asia, causing thousands of

by Noah Feldman (Bloomberg) An international court rules that China broke the law by building islands in the South China Sea. China doesn’t

by Kathy Chen and David Stanway (Reuters) China aims to launch a series of offshore nuclear power platforms to promote development in the South China Sea,

HONG KONG/AMSTERDAM, July 11 (Reuters) – A panel of five judges at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague will announce on Tuesday their ruling

BY GREG TORODE (Reuters) U.S. destroyers have sailed close to Chinese-held reefs and islands in the disputed South China Sea in recent weeks, U.S. naval

BY GREG TORODE AND MIKE COLLETT-WHITE (Reuters) As an international tribunal prepares to rule on Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea,

By David Tweed (Bloomberg) — An international court will rule next month on the validity of China’s claims to a large swath of one of the world’s

SHANGHAI, June 21 (Reuters) – State-owned China COSCO Shipping Corp plans to launch cruise trips in the South China Sea next month, with the first route

By Nobuhiro Kubo OKINAWA, Japan, June 15 (Reuters) – A Chinese observation ship shadowed the U.S. aircraft carrier John C. Stennis in the Western Pacific

By Jonathan Saul ATHENS, June 10 (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s crucial shipping trade is hoping China’s overseas infrastructure plan and closer

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — China is speeding up efforts to design and build a manned deep-sea platform to help it hunt for minerals in the South

China COSCO Shipping on Monday officially launched the consolidated COSCO Shipping Energy Transportation Co., creating one of the world’s largest tanker

By Jonathan Saul ATHENS, June 6 (Reuters) – Moves by China to stockpile oil are providing a further boost to the tanker shipping market which is already