Singapore-based non-profit group donates 8 beach-cleaning machines to Sri Lanka
SINGAPORE – A Singapore-based non-profit group, the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, has donated beach cleanup equipment worth US$180,000 (S$243,162) to the Sri [...]
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Sri Lanka braces itself for disaster as efforts under way to contain oil spill from half-sunk S'pore ship
BANGALORE – As the smoking ship continues sinking off the Sri Lankan coast, the authorities brace themselves for a “catastrophic oil spill” that [...]
Singapore's MV Swift Rescue arrives in Bali to aid search for Indonesia submarine
SINGAPORE – Singapore’s submarine rescue vessel, MV Swift Rescue, arrived in waters north of Indonesia’s Bali island early on Sunday (April 25) to [...]
Tanker salvage begins as Sri Lanka battles oil slick
COLOMBO (AFP) – International experts boarded an oil tanker stricken off Sri Lanka to begin salvage operations, the navy said on Thursday (Sept [...]
Fresh fire hits stricken oil supertanker off Sri Lanka
COLOMBO (AFP) – A massive fire that crippled an oil tanker off Sri Lanka has reignited in strong winds, the island nation’s navy [...]