Shows in Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle and Brighton will feature various lineups of friends, family and former members of Cardiacs, as well as Tim Smith’s Spratleys. In advance of these live delights ...

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Colombo,] China today [March 30] took strong exception to an ECAFE document listing Hsisha Islands (Paracels) and the Ansha Islands (Spratleys) as ...

The Spratleys are an all together different kettle of fish as they stretch all the way down to Indonesia. All parties need to sit around the negotiating table with each country getting those islands ...

The Green Door Store will host the ‘2.3.4 Fest’ (pic Nick Linazasoro) (click to enlarge). The Green Door Store music venue in Brighton have been successfully supporting local grassroots music and ...

Spratleys Japs – ‘Vine’ from Pony (1999) According to Tim, the note for the project that became Spratleys Japs read: “Record something really quickly, make the drums sound shit.” For Smith, adding his ...

Its claim over the waters and the islands within it – including the Paracels, Spratleys, Zhongsha and the Pratas – are disputed by several countries, including the Philippines and Vietnam.

Shao Kwang-Tsao (邵廣昭), a retired researcher at Academia Sinica’s Biodiversity Research Center, has studied the “coral cathedrals” beneath the Spratleys, prompting former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) ...

Five and a half years on from the international arbitral tribunal’s rejection of China’s expansive South China Sea claims in July 2016, the international maritime order in East Asia clearly is in ...

Manila (AsiaNews/Agencies) The China National Offshore Oil Corporation, Philippine National Oil and Vietnam Oil & Gas have agreed to conduct a seismic survey of the Spratly Islands, a group of 100 ...