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A NEW contract to outsource management of the country's immigration detention centres has quadrupled the original contract.

The Mekong Riverine Operation Unit (MROU) of the navy will be expanded to better contribute to joint patrols with China, Laos and Myanmar against robbers, drug smugglers and illegal immigrants, navy chief Surasak Roomruangwong said on Wednesday.

By Larry Kudlow, CNBC Anchor NEW YORK (CNBC) --That great phrase was coined by the late Jack Kemp, who believed that growth and opportunity for all is the answer to poverty. In fact, Kemp believed it was the answer to all things economic. And he was right. The best anti-poverty program is the one that creates jobs. The answer to large budget deficits? Grow the economy, create jobs, watch incomes ...

SANAA (Reuters) - Eritrea's navy has seized five Yemeni fishing boats in the Red Sea in an area where the two countries have had a territorial dispute, a Yemeni official said on Tuesday. The incident is part of a dispute between Yemen and Eritrea over water rights around the Red Sea's Hanish Islands, which the two countries briefly fought over in 1995. An international court gave Yemen ...

Everett ramp -- Feb. 4: 40 boats with 88 anglers caught seven chinook. Edmonds Marina -- Feb. 3: Six boats with nine anglers caught two chinook; Feb. 4: Nine boats with 12 anglers caught one chinook.

A year after 12 people died on a sinking tourist boat, Carmen Roberts asks if Vietnam's Ha Long Bay is any safer for visitors.

FIRE DESTROYED THREE BOATS and extensively damaged another in the dockyard of the Berinda Cox Fish Market in Oistins, Christ Church, yesterday.

For years, taxpayers in Brevard County have had to pay to remove abandoned boats.  Now, the owners of those boats are facing jail time for leaving their vessels behind. A judge gave one boat owner a strict deadline to have his boats removed the next full moon. Paul Baumann is hoping the full moon will bring in the tide and make it easier to move out two boats.  If the tide does not come in and ...

Fourteen boats were damaged in an extensive boat yard fire in the Long Island village of Freeport Wednesday, officials said.

Early fishing vessels included rafts and dugout canoes constructed from a wooden frame and covered with animal hide or tree bark. The oldest fishing boats were dugout canoes, documented 7,000-9,000 years ago and were cut from logs using stone crafted tools.