Increased presence. Commanders across asia strengthen their personnel and equipment to back up their claims to territory. Chinese commanders are doing more to make their presence known in the South China Sea. Theyre beefing up their equipment as others beef up their forces. Theyve deployed a patrol vessel off the Southern Province for the first time. The Maritime Safety administration launched this ship, running more than 90 meters long. It has a heli pad. China is locked in territorial disputes with several countries. Diplomats are expected to react strongly to deployment of a larger ship. Commanders in the philippines are trying to bolster their control over some islands in the South China Sea. Theyve begun staging elite marps on the islands. Senior military Officials Say they started deploying marines in october. They had already stationed naval officers there. The commanders say theyve almost doubled the number of personnel on some of the islands. The marines underwent training to
Increased presence. Commanders across asia strengthen their personnel and equipment to back up their claims to territory. Chinese commanders are doing more to make their presence known in the South China Sea. Theyre beefing up their equipment as others beef up their forces. Theyve deployed a patrol vessel off the Southern Province for the first time. The Maritime Safety administration launched this ship, running more than 90 meters long. It has a heli pad. China is locked in territorial disputes with several countries. Diplomats are expected to react strongly to deployment of a larger ship. Commanders in the philippines are trying to bolster their control over some islands in the South China Sea. Theyve begun staging elite marps on the islands. Senior military Officials Say they started deploying marines in october. They had already stationed naval officers there. The commanders say theyve almost doubled the number of personnel on some of the islands. The marines underwent training to
Of missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370. Satellite imagery may have caught images of at least two pieces from the jet, in southern indian ocean. The largest piece is said to be almost 80 feet in length. Australia has sent at least one air force plane to the area. To see if the wreckage can be found and verified. An Australian Maritime Safety Administration official says, a coordinated effort is being utilized to find the missing plane, but weather patterns may be an issue. In the 13 days since the plane disappeared, there has been no sign of any wreckage nor any conclusive indication of what happened to the boeing 777. The australian official also warned, it could take some time before there are some definitive answers. Stay with kron4 as we continue to cover the missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370. Log on to our website kron4 dot com for the latest information out of australia on the new findings. As well as pictures of some of the passengers. You can also learn about the seven lea
Heavilyarmed police and federal agents conducted searches there after a boston man was shot tuesday when terrorism investigators sought to question him. Usaama rahim, aged 26 of the roslindale section of boston was shot and killed after police say an officer and an fbi agent approached him at a bus stop and he came at them with this knife. Officials say Surveillance Video not released publicly showed what happened. We saw the video. It appears the Law Enforcement officers were backing away before they exercised deadly force. Reporter investigators tell nbc news they believe rahim was preparing to attack police in boston within the next few days. Radicalized, they say, by isisinspired social media. They say he had been under 24 hour a day surveillance for weeks. Within hours of the shooting investigators began looking for others they believe may have been in contact with rahim, searching locations in warwick, rhode island boston and nearby everett. I saw a line of what looked like swat
Defense expert Su Tzu-yun told Newsweek a drone that plunged into the South China Sea was probably being used to surreptitiously harass Taiwan s air defenses.