All posts tagged "ship"

  • Guarded by South Korean naval ships, fishing boats operate. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea’s navy fires at Chinese ship in Yellow Sea

    By Brian Han The Yellow Sea generates a lot of tension among the countries it borders. So it shouldn’t come as a big surprise when the South Korean Navy fired warning shots on Tuesday at an unauthorized...

    • Posted December 8, 2015
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  • Paramilitary policemen in white overalls wait to recover bodies from the Eastern Star after it is righted and lifted by cranes in the Yangtze River in Jianli county in southern China's Hubei province Friday June 5, 2015. The smashed up white-and-blue Eastern Star emerged from gray waters of the Yangtze River on Friday as Chinese disaster teams raised the capsized ship with cranes to better search for hundreds still missing. (Chinatopix Via AP)
    China ship righted to speed up search for hundreds missing

    IANLI, China (AP) — The banged-up, white-and-blue Eastern Star emerged from gray waters of the Yangtze River on Friday as Chinese disaster teams raised the capsized ship with cranes to better search for nearly 340 people still...

    • Posted June 5, 2015
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  • A North Korean freight ship (Yonhap)
    N. Korea claims Mexico ‘forcibly’ holding ship, blames US

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea on Wednesday said Mexico has “forcibly detained” one of its ships months after it ran aground off Mexico’s Gulf coast last year, and Pyongyang blames the United States for making sure...

    • Posted April 8, 2015
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    One dead, 4 others missing in fishing boat fire off Dokdo

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — One fisherman died and four others went missing Tuesday after a fishing vessel carrying 10 sailors caught fire off South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo, the safety ministry said. The fire on the Munseong...

    • Posted December 29, 2014
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  • ajo Industries officials bow in apology as the company's CEO, Kim Jeong-su, left, stands nearby at the firm's offices in Busan, Tuesday. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea set to end search for missing crew of sunken trawler

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea plans to terminate its search for missing crewmen of a sunken South Korean trawler this week due mainly to bad weather, nearly a month after it went down off Russia’s far east...

    • Posted December 29, 2014
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  • This photo shows an accident site where a South Korean fishing ship sunk off the coast of the Russian Far East on Dec. 1, 2014. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea sends rescuers to join search for missing sailors

    SEOUL/BUSAN (Yonhap) — South Korea said Friday it has dispatched a rescue team to join the search for the missing crew members of a South Korean trawler that sank off Russia’s far east coast. The 1,753-ton Oryong...

    • Posted December 5, 2014
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