ONE of China's biggest fisheries research vessels has been spotted passing through the Philippines' archipelagic waters, SeaLight, a transparency initiative tracking developments in the South China Sea, said Monday.
Retired US Air Force colonel Ray Powell, director of SeaLight, reported on Monday that the vessel, the Lan Hai 101, appears to be en route to the Philippine Sea. Meanwhile, its companion ship, Lan Hai 201, remains in the Arabian Sea, continuing its purported fisheries research operations.
