Korean, Chinese vessels collide, 6 missing

"SEOUL, April 7 (UPI) -- The Korean coast guard Monday reported six Chinese crewmen missing in a collision between a Chinese fishing boat and a South Korean freighter.The fishing boat, Lujiao Yu, capsized about 100 miles south of the South Korean island of Jeju, the South...

Oil tanker capsizes in Binh Thuan, ten missing

"VietNamNet Bridge – The oil tanker Duc Tri upturned off the coast of Binh Thuan Province. Ten sailors are missing and over 1,700 tons of oil is threatening to spread along the southern coast.   The ship was on its way from HCM City to the central city of Da Nang when...

16 Killed After Boat Sinks in Albania

Rescue efforts are still underway, however, already 16 people have been confirmed dead in this horrible boat accident in Albania."TIRANA — A boat carrying partygoers celebrating the birthday of 5-year-old twins sank overnight in a lake near the capital, killing 16 people,...

Indonesia has yet to receive info on 16 boat passengers

""I remain following the procedure that the information we receive should be from the official source (the Australian immigration office)," spokesman for the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra, Dino Kusnadi, told ANTARA here Thursday. Until now, the Indonesian embassy has yet to...

US `reconnaissance` boat moors at Bali port

"He said he believed the US patrol boat which arrived in Bali on Thursday was likely to help monitor security conditions in the runup to the United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bali on December 3-14, 2007. "We have no idea what the real tasks and...

Boat accident near Bangkok kills one Indonesian

""The captain tried to take the boat to the shore but the water leaked into the boat too quick, so it capsized before the boat reached the shore," he said. Somchai said that the bodies of a Indonesian man and a Thai man and woman had been found, while dozens were injured in...

Customs patrol boat arrests three vessels carrying illegal rice & sugar from ...

""The three vessels are being escorted to Ketapang port for further investigation," Chief of Investigations and Legal Action of the Riau Islands Service Office Syafrizal said at his office on Tuesday. He further explained that in the beginning, the Customs patrol boat 15020...