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

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.

It is one of the most remote islands in the Indian Ocean, lying 600km east of its nearest ... And it's worth taking a boat out to Île aux Cocos, an uninhabited island where seabirds gather ...

Ever heard of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands? I hadn't, until recently. But my husband, Andrew, and I just returned from a week there, and now I can't rave about it enough. Watch: Going on a group ...

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 ...