China has built up economic and military ties across the Indian Ocean. The region holds 40% of the world’s offshore oil and ...

Many island territories will be affected by this change, including the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean. Therefore, the government of Australia plans to relocate hundreds of inhabitants of these ...

Few tropical archipelagos are quite as beautiful, remote and appealingly quirky as the Cocos Islands, said Ruaridh Nicoll in the Financial Times (FT). Isolated in the Indian Ocean 660 miles south ...

Duqm adds an important node to a growing network of facilities in the Indian Ocean held by actors with interests in preserving the status quo.

An Indian Ocean Territories Administration spokesperson ... army can do pretty much what they like," he said. On the Cocos (Keeling) Islands the Commonwealth ultimately acts as both state and ...