NTDTV
| May 9, 2013
Is China upping the stakes in its territorial dispute with Japan? An editorial in the state-run People's Daily has infuriated Japan by questioning the country's claim to the Ryukyu Islands, the largest of which is Okinawa -- home to 1.2 million Ja...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 7, 2013
The territorial row that has prevented Japan and Russia from signing a peace treaty to conclude World War II has flared up again, with Japanese nationalists demanding the return of the Kuril Islands amid claims Russian jets violated Japanese airsp...
LinkAsia
| Feb 1, 2013
Last week's meeting between Japan's New Komeito party leader Natsuo Yamaguchi and Chinese president Xi Jinping eased tensions in the territorial dispute over an island chain in the East China Sea. But social media users in both countries are still...
LinkAsia
| May 18, 2012
Tensioned heightened this week between China and the Philippines over a disputed island chain, called Scarborough Shoal in the Philippines and Huangyan Island in China. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reports on the country's warning to Chinese tou...
LinkAsia
| May 1, 2012
Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara took everyone by surprise this past week with his announcement that Tokyo will attempt to purchase a long-disputed island chain. Our Tokyo correspondent Toshi Maeda explains why the Senkaku isles (Diaoyu islands to...
— Jul 4, 2012 at 12:42 am
...a broad explanation about torture and ill-treatment in Syria under two titles. According to HRW, there are 27 torture and detention centers in D...
— Jul 3, 2012 at 12:35 pm
...said the report. Follow us Human Rights Watch says the people interviewed identified 27 clandestine torture centers in Damascus, Daraa, Homs, La...
— Jul 3, 2012 at 03:00 am
An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain or cluster of islands. The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι- – arkhi- and πέλαγος – pélagos through the Italian arcipelago. In Italian, possibly following a tradition of antiquity, the Arcipelago was the proper name for the Aegean Sea and, later, usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands. It is now used to refer to any island group or, sometimes, to a sea containing a large number of scattered islands.
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