Strong quakes hit off Japan, rattle Taiwan Aug 18, 2009
Japan's meteorological agency issued and lifted tsunami alerts both times for a group of islands in the East China Sea. The quakes could be felt in Taipei but caused no damage. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Japan PM front runner says he wants to promote China ties Aug 12, 2009
Hatoyama also expressed his willingness to work on tough issues, including a dispute over gas fields in the East China Sea. "My belief is that, by working on outstanding problems... the sense of our mutual trust will become more profound," he said. (Yahoo! Asia News)
South Korea's first rocket ready - at last Aug 11, 2009
If and when South Korea's luck finally changes, the KSLV-1 will follow a trajectory that will propel it over southern Japan, specifically southwest of Kyushu and close to Okinawa with the first stage entering the East China Sea near Kyushu, and the second stage dropping near the Philippines. Despite this trajectory, it is unclear if Japan is preparing its anti-missile shield again in case of an accident, which could send debris showering down on the Japanese countryside. (Asia Times Online)
Typhoons cause deaths, destruction across Asia Aug 11, 2009
The authorities said the storm was whipping up waves as high as 26 feet in the East China Sea and in the strait between mainland China and Taiwan, which was battered by the typhoon Saturday. Meanwhile, another typhoon, Etau, hit western Japan today, causing floods and landslides that killed nine people. (San Francisco Chronicle)
East China braces for incoming typhoon Morakot Aug 9, 2009
The sea in southern part of the East China Sea and Taiwan Strait will be very rough, with monster waves as high as eight meters, the center warned. Other coastal areas from Shanghai to Guangdong Province will all experience abnormally high waves, from 2. (Xinhuanet, China)
Typhoon Morakot's Cloud Top Extent Doubled In Size In 1 Day Aug 7, 2009
AIRS captured an infrared image of Typhoon Morakot tracking through the East China Sea on August 6 at 12:35 a.m. EDT (0435 UTC) ... This infrared satellite image shows Typhoon Morakot's cold clouds (depicted in purple and blue) stretching over 1,000 miles in diameter on Aug 6, in the East China Sea. (Science Daily)
China's fishing fleet sets challenge to US Aug 7, 2009
The East China Sea accounts for the largest catch, followed by the South China Sea and then the Yellow Sea. Among these sea areas, only the South China Sea region has seen increasing catches of late. (Asia Times Online)
Giant Jellyfish Invasion May Be Imminent in Japan Jul 30, 2009
"We have reports of massive bloomings of young jellyfish near the Chinese coast, where the ecosystems of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea are favorable for breeding," said Shin-ichi Uye, a biological oceanographer at Hiroshima University. (See a. (National Geographic)
Primeline Files National Instrument 51-101 Disclosure Jul 29, 2009
Primeline has a 75% Contractor's interest in the Petroleum Contract with CNOOC for Block 25/34, an offshore exploration area of 7,006 km2 in the East China Sea, where the Lishui 36-1 discovery is located. Primeline is compiling the Overall Development Plan for the Lishui 36-1 gas field on a stand-alone basis. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Century's longest solar eclipse tomorrow Jul 22, 2009
China's largest city Shanghai will experience the total solar eclipse for five minutes, Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators (SPACE) Director C B Devgun said, adding across the East China Sea, the eclipse will sweep over Japan's Ryukyu Islands and Iwo Jima. More Stories from this section. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Century's longest Solar eclipse on July 22 Jul 19, 2009
China's largest city Shanghai will experience the total solar eclipse for five minutes, he said, adding across the East China Sea, the eclipse will sweep over Japan's Ryukyu Islands and Iwo Jima. Text Size. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
China maps out troubled waters Jul 16, 2009
The People's Republic of China (PRC) may have strengthened its claim to areas of the East China Sea with the submission in May of its preliminary survey findings on the outer limits of its continental shelf to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) ... The submission makes a claim to an extended continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles (nm) in the East China Sea (ECS) ... This may not be the last extended continental shelf claim made by China, as according to Foreign... (Asia Times Online)
'Jellyfish typhoon' bearing down on Japan Jul 11, 2009
"I believe the environment in the East China Sea was bad, so the podocysts slept in that form last year," Ue said. "However, they've all turned into polyps this year, resulting in a plague of jellyfish.". (Honolulu Advertiser)
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As it moves out over the East China Sea, the umbra sweeps over Japans Ryukyu Islands, then Iwo Jima and Kitaio Jima, before curving southeast across the Pacific. The instant of greatest eclipse occurs at 2:35:19 UT, when totality lasts longest: 6 minutes 39 seconds. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Eclipses in 2009 Jul 7, 2009
Heading across the East China Sea, the path includes the Ryukyu Islands and Iwo Jima. No other major land masses experience totality, though much of east Asia, Indonesia, and the South Pacific are in line to see partial phases. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
* Taiwan will not open median line: Ma Jul 4, 2009
At present, direct flights between Taiwan and China are routed over the East China Sea and South China Sea rather than directly across the Taiwan Strait. We have told [Beijing] very clearly before that we will not open the median line. (Taipei Times, Taiwan)
Timeline: China Jul 3, 2009
Japan and China reach a deal for the joint development of a gas field in the East China Sea, resolving a four-year-old dispute. 2008 July - China and Russia sign a treaty ending 40-year-old border dispute which led to armed clashes during the Cold War. (BBC News)
Luminex plants its flag in China Jun 3, 2009
Flanked by the Huangpu River and the East China Sea, Pudong is home to 1. 5 million people and was declared a New Open Economic Development Zone in the 1990s. (Austin Business Journal, TX)
Briefing: Scramble for the seabed May 19, 2009
China and South Korea are at odds over a part of the East China sea. And China has submitted a map that seems to assert ownership of a vast part of the South China sea. (The Economist)
China, U.S. try to resolve maritime discords May 16, 2009
"The US has always wanted to maintain its influence in Asia through military means. It has conducted military activities around the Taiwan Straits and the East China Sea, and now wants to expand to the South China Sea," said Professor Yuan Peng, an expert at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations. He added that the US is keen to see Southeast Asian countries in territorial disputes with China so that it can retain its influence in those countries and contain China's rise. (Xinhuanet, China)
Weather forecast for the Asia-Pacific region May 6, 2009
High pressure will build over the East China Sea and bring warm and dry conditions to eastern China, the Korean Peninsula. Shanghai and Hong Kong will see mostly sunny skies, while Beijing will be hot and dry. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
Husky Energy profit shrinks Apr 28, 2009
It also has a 40 per cent interest in the in the Wenchang field southwest of Hong Kong, a full stake in an the East China Sea offshore block near Shanghai, as well as operations in Indonesia's Madura strait. In addition to the Southeast Asian assets, Husky also has leases in the oilsands, offshore oil and gas platforms off Canada's East Coast, refineries in the United States and Canada and a chain of retail gas stations across Western Canada. (Globe and Mail)
* World News Quick Take Apr 20, 2009
The first stage will drop in the East China Sea off Kyushu and the second stage in waters off the southeastern Philippines, it said. VIETNAM. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
EDIT: Save The Reefs Apr 20, 2009
In what is being described as one of the world's largest coral restoration projects, Japanese technologists have since they started in 2005 spent $2 million and transplanted 13,000 pieces of fledgling coral into dying reefs in the East China Sea. Different species of coral are grown in the laboratory. (India Times, India)
New branches of nationalism in China Apr 15, 2009
Not to mention China's sovereignty dispute with Japan over the Diaoyu islands (called Senkaku in Japanese) and gas and oil resources in the East China Sea. If anyone in China, especially celebrities, dares to test these nationalistic sentiments, they find themselves quickly and fiercely denounced. (Asia Times Online)
Crashed Chinese helicopter salvaged Apr 14, 2009
The wreckage of a helicopter from China's Antarctic exploration ship Xuelong is hoisted up almost a nautical mile from its crash site in the East China Sea off Shanghai, April 12, 2009 ... The plane crashed in the East China Sea off Shanghai Sunday, two days after Xuelong returned to the city from its Antarctic mission. (Xinhuanet, China)
Weather forecast for the Asia-Pacific region, AS Apr 13, 2009
(AP) A low pressure system from eastern China will strengthen over the East China Sea before moving over southern Japan, bringing strong winds and moderate showers with periods of heavy localized precipitation. The heaviest downpours and storms will remain over the western Pacific. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
Crashed Chinese helicopter salvaged out of sea water Apr 13, 2009
The plane crashed in the East China Sea off Shanghai Sunday, two days after Xuelong returned to the city from its Antarctic mission. The wreckage of a helicopter from China's Antarctic exploration ship Xuelong is hoisted up almost a nautical mile from its crash site in the East China Sea off Shanghai, April 12, 2009 ... The wreckage was out of water at 10:55 p.m. Sunday, about two and a half hours after divers found the wreckage almost a nautical mile from the crash site, said Sun Fumin,... (Xinhuanet, China)
Helicopter crashes into Yangtze River in E China Apr 12, 2009
One missing after helicopter crashes into East China Sea_English_Xinhua. One missing after helicopter crashes into East China Sea ... SHANGHAI, April 12 (Xinhua) -- One person is missing after a helicopter from China's Antarctic exploration ship, Xuelong, crashed into the East China Sea off Shanghai Sunday. (Xinhuanet, China)
China Rises Again Part II Apr 4, 2009
Domestic Chinese legislation also asserts general territorial sovereignty over disputed and largely uninhabited islands in those waters that are claimed by at least six other countries and over similar islands claimed by Korea and Japan in the East China Sea. China s views on whether its territorial waters extend to these disputed islands and whether the islands themselves generate additional EEZs remain ambiguous. (YaleGlobal Online Magazine, CT)
China's Flash of Maritime Muscle May Signal Push for Power in Asian Seas Mar 25, 2009
After a decade of increases in that averaged 16 percent a year, China has the military means to enforce claims in the energy-rich and trade-heavy South and East China Seas -- and to challenge U.S. activities there, as it did March 8 when five Chinese vessels confronted the USNS Impeccable ... The U.S. may also face decisions about getting involved in quarrels among China, Taiwan and Japan in the East China Sea if China tries to push its sovereignty there. (Bloomberg)
• China not boosting South China Sea naval presence Mar 20, 2009
China and Japan have sparred over ownership of an uninhabited island group known as Diaoyutai in Chinese and the Senkakus in Japanese, as well as overlapping claims to undersea gas deposits in the East China Sea. A service of the Associated Press(AP). (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Japan Premier Aso Postpones Visit to China, Foreign Minister Nakasone Says Mar 17, 2009
Sovereignty over the islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, which are close to gas fields and a maritime shipping lane in the East China Sea, would give the holder rights to undersea oil reserves. China and Japan agreed to hold annual leadership meetings during a visit by Hu to Japan last year. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
* Ma's thesis contained more than 1,000 mistakes: report Mar 7, 2009
Mas thesis, which discussed issues surrounding the Diaoyutai Islands, was titled Trouble Over Oily Waters: Legal Problems of Seabed Boundaries and Foreign Investments in the East China Sea. It helped Ma graduate from the university's Law School as a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) in 1981. (Taipei Times, Taiwan)
* Ministry unaware of US view on Diaoyutai islands Mar 6, 2009
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was unaware that the US had recently said the US-Japan security treaty includes the much-disputed Diaoyutai archipelago in the East China Sea, Department of North American Affairs Director-General Harry Tseng (p) said yesterday during a weekly briefing. The island chain has been a source of contention between Taiwan, Japan and China, which all claim sovereignty over the islands. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
National Security: Walking Softly Vs. China's Big Stick Mar 6, 2009
The capabilities and proficiency of the Chinese submarine fleet was demonstrated on Oct. 26, 2006, when another Song-class attack sub surfaced undetected within weapons distance of the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk in the East China Sea off Okinawa. China now possesses 12 Kilo-class Russian attack submarines. (Investors Business Daily)
South Korea's Lee calls on North to stop missile plans Mar 1, 2009
Nakasone's brief visit to Beijing also addressed the disputed Diaoyu or Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, but both sides agreed not to let that overshadow their broader relationship. ASHES. (International Herald Tribune)
Japan urges NKorea to exercise restraint Mar 1, 2009
Wen hailed efforts by Nakasone to improve relations between China and Japan, after tension ramped up over the ownership of a disputed chain of islands in the East China Sea ... They also discussed an agreement to jointly develop oil and gas reserves in the East China Sea, Kodama said. (International Herald Tribune)
More Top Stories Asia Pacific Headlines Feb 28, 2009
Another issue that Nakasone, who is scheduled to meet Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday, will discuss while in China is a long-running territorial dispute between the two powers over energy-rich waters in the East China Sea. "We are... arranging discussions on the issues of the Senkaku islands and gas fields in the East China Sea," the Japanese official said. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Japan foreign minister flies into Chinese storm Feb 28, 2009
BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan's Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone flew into a diplomatic storm on Saturday, arriving in Beijing one day after China made stern representations over official remarks about disputed islands in the East China Sea ... Japanese Foreign Ministry media secretary Kazuo Kodama acknowledged that the islands were a "sensitive issue," but said that Nakasone hoped to begin negotiations with the Chinese to turn a political agreement last summer over resource development in the... (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
* MOFA reiterates claim over Diaoyutai isles Feb 28, 2009
Known as Senkaku in Japanese, the archipelago in the East China Sea has been a bone of contention between China, Japan and Taiwan, who all assert territorial claim over the islands. On Wednesday, Aso said the Diaoyutai islands were part of Japans territory and fell under the protection of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security signed by Japan and the US in 1960. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
China's defense: The view from Taiwan Feb 13, 2009
Japan, however, is particularly concerned that the PLA is building a blue water navy that will pose a security challenge in the overlapping territorial claims over the disputed islands in the East China Sea. Taiwanese and Japanese concerns are not exceptions. (Asia Times Online)
