Examples of using Spratly in English and their translations into Malay
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Sakhalin the Spratly Islands.
China Angry at Vietnamese"Construction" on Spratly.
Scarborough Shoal and high-tide features in the Spratly Islands generate territorial seas but not EEZs or continental shelves.
China occupies seven sites in the Spratly Islands.
About 50 protesters, most of themstudents, reached Thitu island in the Spratly archipelago on Saturday in a stand against what they say is Beijing's creeping invasion of the Philippine exclusive economic zone, said Eugenio Bito-onon, the island's mayor.
Itu Aba Island is a rock located in the Spratly Islands.
In late May,the French assault ship Dixmude and a frigate sailed through the Spratly Islands and around a group of reefs that China has turned into islets, pushing back against Beijing's claim to own most of the resource-rich waters.
China has militarized at least three features in the Spratly Island chain.
China Mobile, it should be noted,extended phone coverage in the Spratly Islands in 2011 so that PLA soldiers stationed on the islands, fishermen, and merchant vessels within the area would be able to use mobile services, and can also provide assistance during storms and sea rescues.
Najib: Strong Malaysia-China ties will not compromise Spratly sovereignty.
Beijing's recent reclamation work near the Spratly Islands, parts of which are also claimed by four ASEAN countries- Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam- and its construction of a runway on one of the artificial islands, saw several leaders express concern that such work would change the status quo.
China claims most of the South China Sea, including the Spratly Islands.
The second key finding in the case was that neither Scarborough Shoal norany of the high-tide features in the Spratly Islands“are capable of sustaining human habitation or an economic life of their own” and“are therefore legally rocks for purposes of Article 121(3) and do not generate entitlements to an exclusive economic zone or continental shelf,” paras.
Several shipwrecks are evidence of trade between Champa and the Philippines via the Spratly Islands.
Tokyo has no claims in the South China Sea,but is worried about Beijing's construction of seven artificial islands in the waterway's Spratly archipelago, which will extend Chinese military reach into sea lanes through which much of Japan's ship-borne trade passes.
Washington wants its regional allies and other Asian nations to take a more united stance against China over the South China Sea, where tension has spiked in thewake of Beijing's construction of seven man-made islands in the Spratly archipelago.
The Republic of China(ROC) controls the island of Taiwan and associated islands, Quemoy, Matsu,the Pratas and parts of the Spratly Islands,[y] and has not renounced claims over its annexed territories on the mainland.
The state-run Defence Times newspaper, in a Tuesday report on its WeChat account, said Norinco CS/AR-1 55mm anti-frogman rocket launcher defense systems with the capability to discover, identify and attack enemy combat divers hadbeen installed on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands.
Critical to note about Flight 370's flight deviation, GRU experts said, was that it occurred,during the same time period that all of the Spratly Island mobile phone communications operated by China Mobile, were being jammed.
Prior to Flight 370 entering the People LiberationArmy(PLA) protected zones of the South China Sea, known as the Spratly Islands, after its 8 March departure from KLIA, the GRU had previously reported,… it“significantly deviated” from its flight course, and was tracked by VKO satellites and radar flying into the Indian Ocean region, and completing its nearly 3,447 kilometer(2,142 miles) flight to the Diego Garcia atoll.
But tensions in the sea-- through which a third of the world's oil passes-- have mounted inrecent months since China transformed contested reefs in the Spratly Islands further south into artificial islands capable of supporting military facilities.
China is locked in a territorial dispute with four Southeast Asian countries- including Washington allies Vietnam and the Philippines-and the US in October sent a warship near the disputed Spratly Islands chain, arguing for its right to freedom of navigation.
In another development, commenting on media reports on China preventing oil and gas exploration ships belonging to Malaysia andVietnam in waters near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, Muhyiddin said he had not received a complete report on the matter.
The award concluded that China had,“through its toleration and protection of, and failure to prevent Chinese fishing vessels engaging in harmful harvesting activities of endangered species at Scarborough Shoal,Second Thomas Shoal and other features in the Spratly Islands, breached Articles 192 and 194(5) of the Convention” para.
Vietnam is extremely concerned about the information[as reported] and reaffirms that allmilitarization activities, including the installation of missiles on the Spratly islands, is a serious violation of Vietnam's sovereignty," Hang said in the statement posted on the ministry's website Tuesday.
Critical to note about Flight 370's flight deviation, GRU experts in this report say,was that it occurred during the same time period that all of the Spratly Island mobile phone communications operated by China Mobile were being jammed.
Establishing a military base in Darwin, resurrecting the US's military alliance with the Philippines, coaxing Japan to play a more overt military role in the region,instigating Vietnam to confront China over the Spratly islands, and encouraging India to counterbalance Chinese power, are all part and parcel of the larger US agenda of encircling and containing China.
