Brunei

China-U.S. talks on crucial problems under danger as brand-new Trump period looms

U.S. Presidentelect Donald Trump acquires a United StatesChina relationship reset by presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping over the last year to raise ties off a diplomatic nadir after COVID19 and stress over Taiwan. Official talks are being held on a range of important concerns, however local diplomats and analysts state these channels essential to handle tense ties might be on the slicing block with Trump in the White Home. They include: DEFENCE Improved interactions in between the two militaries have assisted check stress in local hotspots as Chinese and Philippine coast guard and fishing vessels square off almost weekly

Pollution

China says no clinical, factual basis for Philippines' damage claims at Sabina Shoal

TotalEnergies offers Brunei system to Hibiscus Petroleum for $259 mln

French oil and gas major TotalEnergies will offer its Brunei organization to Malaysian independent expedition and production firm Hibiscus Petroleum for $259.4 million, both companies said on Friday. TotalEnergies said the sale belongs to its method to offer its mature fields and reallocate cash to promising brand-new areas, such as Namibia , where the French company will invest 30% of its exploration budget plan for 2024. For Hibiscus, the appeal is in obtaining a. well-established gas asset in a steady neighbouring. country where the group hopes it can increase output. We have actually been looking for the best opportunity to

Oil & Gas

Brunei LNG provides very first freight because plant outage

Philippines prompts China to enable analysis of challenged South China Sea shoal

The Philippines challenged China on Monday to open Scarborough Shoal to global analysis after it accused Beijing of ruining the shoal's. marine environment. Maritime tension has been increasing in the South China Sea. in between Manila and Beijing, as the Philippines has actually implicated China. of using water cannon and blocking manoeuvres through disputed. shoals and reefs. Control of the Scarborough Shoal, taken by China in 2012,. figured in the Philippines case at a Hague arbitration tribunal,. which ruled in 2016 that Beijing's claim to 90% of the South. China Sea had no basis in international law. We are alarmed

Taiwan

Official of the Philippine Navy calls China's coast guard a "band" of barbarians

A senior navy official stated on Thursday that China's coastguard personnel behaved like "a band of barbarians" this week during a Philippine supply mission to a disputed shoal in South China Sea, which resulted in injuries and damages to vessels. A Philippine sailor was seriously injured after what the Philippine military called "intentional high speed ramming by the Chinese Coast Guard" in an attempt to disrupt a supply mission for troops on Second Thomas Shoal. China's Coast Guard personnel - who Philippine military officials claimed were carrying knives and spears - looted firearms from Philippine boats and "deliberately punctured them".

Official of the Philippine Navy calls China's coast guard a "band" of barbarians