The Latest Breaking News from Indian Ocean

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka/BEIJING -- As China's all-white Yuan Wang 5 research vessel slowly pulled into a dock at the southern Sri Lankan port of Hambantota on Tuesday morning, it was greeted by a group of Chinese residents holding a large banner that hailed the friendship between Beijing and Colombo. Sri…

Bureau of Meteorology forecasts heavy rain in spring driven by negative Indian Ocean Dipole and warm waters in the north

The Bureau of Meteorology officially declares yet another climatic phenomenon off the coast of Western Australia, which is likely to add to unrelenting rain on Australia's east coast.

A Chinese military survey ship will visit a strategic port in crisis-hit Sri Lanka later this month only to refuel, a cabinet spokesman said on Tuesday, after neighbouring India raised concerns over the vessel's journey to the Indian Ocean island.

Meteorologist says it is the first time since reliable weather records began that negative IOD events have occurred in back-to-back years

The rocket fell into the Indian Ocean at around 4.45pm GMT on Saturday

A Chinese booster rocket made an uncontrolled return to Earth on Saturday, leading US officials to chide Beijing for not sharing information about the potentially hazardous object's descent. US Space Command "can confirm the People's Republic of China (PRC) Long March 5B (CZ-5B) re-entered over the Indian Ocean at approx…

The Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Gistda) says debris from the 21-tonne rocket booster of China's Long March 5B rocket will not hit Thailand and is likely to fall into the Indian Ocean on Sunday.

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