Communis Hostis Omnium » South East Asia

As part of its UNOSAT programme, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research recently launched a global report on the geospatial analysis of piracy activities. UNOSAT uses satellite de...

https://piracy-law.com/2014/04/27/unosat-global-report-on-maritime-piracy-a-geospatial-analysis/

Wednesday morning (November 21) a Swedish air patrol reported the presence of a suspicious skiff off the coast of Somalia. Romanian and Turkish warships approached the skiff, and the suspected pi...

https://piracy-law.com/2012/11/23/1407/

Further to his earlier conviction for the murder of 13 chinese sailors on the Mekong River last year, notorious former druglord Naw Kham has been sentenced to death today by the Intermediate Peop...

https://piracy-law.com/2012/11/06/update-mekong-pirates-sentenced-to-death/

This week the 8th Heads of Asian Coast Guard Agencies Meeting convened in New Delhi. Defense Minister A.K. Antony asserted India’s commitment to bolstering security against a myriad of threat...

https://piracy-law.com/2012/10/05/weekly-piracy-review-international-cooperation/

For 3 days at the end of last week, the Intermediate People’s Court in Kunming, the capital of the Yunnan Province in southwest China, was the stage for yet another high profile, yet swift, cri...

https://piracy-law.com/2012/09/24/the-mekong-pirates-on-trial/

The reclusive authoritarian Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is once again back on the news headlines. Surprisingly, this time is not about the reactivation of its purported nuclear progra...

https://piracy-law.com/2012/05/21/what-does-piracy-have-to-do-with-north-korea/

Furthering its current efforts to enhance international cooperation to tackle piracy, the United Kingdom recently became the 18th party to the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy a...

https://piracy-law.com/2012/05/10/recaap-and-the-anti-piracy-information-sharing-system-in-asia/

The recent murder of 13 Chinese sailors on South-East Asia’s Mekong river triggered unprecedented joint international naval patrols by China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand to provide security alon...

https://piracy-law.com/2011/12/30/the-mekong-pirates/