China, Vietnam sign agreement to resolve South China Sea disputes
Singapore, Oct 12, 2011 (TSR) - China and Vietnam have signed a six-point agreement on basic principles to settle maritime disputes, the official Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday.
The two countries...
‘War for Libyan oil planned long ago, no one cares about people’
Susan Lindauer, a journalist and author specializing on American interventions, has never believed the allied forces intervened in Libya out of humanitarian reasons. It is a war for oil...
Russia builds first floating nuclear plant
Russia is building the world's first floating nuclear power plant for mass production.
The plant is designed to create enough electricity for 45,000 people and will have the added ability...
Sino-Vietnamese tensions boil over South China Sea
China's constant search for natural resources to fuel its burgeoning economy has driven Beijing's helmsmen to the far reaches of Africa, South America and the embattled Middle East.
But bubbling...
Who owns the rights to the melting Arctic?
Still, the hope for a Northwest Passage lingers and has become central to a key international debate heating up over the Arctic north. If climate change and global warming are real -- and there's currently little doubt over that-then it stands to reason that the ice covering Arctic waterways will decrease in coming decades, presenting fewer navigational problems for shipping.
If the ice recedes -- and few experts expect it will do so year-round-cargo shipping times and distances could, the thinking goes, be cut: A 12,400-mile voyage from Japan to England by way of the Panama Canal could be shortened to less than 8,700 miles using the Northwest Passage, saving 14 days and costs.
