Brunei

United States, Japanese, Philippine leaders discussed China's behavior in South China Sea, White Home says

U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday met essentially with his equivalents from Japan and the Philippines to advance cooperation amongst the three countries, the White Home stated. The 3 leaders discussed trilateral maritime security and economic cooperation, and China's unsafe and unlawful habits in the South China Sea, it said in a statement. The three leaders agreed on the significance of continued coordination to advance a complimentary and open Indo-Pacific. Biden spoke with Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. late on Sunday, a week before Biden leaves office and hands power to President-elect Donald Trump

Environment

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

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

China launched on Friday its initially survey report of the South China Sea's contested Sabina Shoal, stating there was no clinical or factual basis for reef damage claims made by the Philippines. In the report by the natural deposit ministry carried out from May to July, it discovered that crucial environment index values in the reef area were within the suitable development variety of the coral reef system. When it comes to the claim created by the Philippines that China's. synthetic accumulation of coral particles at Xianbin Reef has. triggered a great deal of coral bleaching and death in the.

Energy Markets

TotalEnergies offers Brunei system to Hibiscus Petroleum for $259 mln

Brunei LNG provides very first freight because plant outage

Brunei LNG has actually delivered its very first freight of liquefied gas (LNG) since it revealed a failure of its onshore compressor plants in May, according to shiptracking data and a declaration from the cargo recipient. PetroVietnam Gas said on Wednesday evening it had gotten an LNG cargo on the Amani vessel from PetroChina International, which had packed in Brunei. Shiptracking information from analytics firms Kpler and LSEG show that the Amani vessel departed Lumut port in Brunei on June 2 and arrived at Vietnam's Thi Vai terminal on June 12. The Kpler and LSEG data also reveal that the

Pollution

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

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