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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Northeast Asia News Brief for 21 September 2009

  • An international piracy monitoring agency, the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia, says piracy in the South China Sea has hit a five-year high (Xinhua) so far this year. In the latest such attack, on Saturday, six pirates robbed the crew (BBC) of a tanker off Indonesia.

  • Newsweek and Foreign Policy reported China has been hoarding minerals needed for the development of green technologies.

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