Chinese ship leaves M'sian waters after month-long South China Sea standoff

A Chinese survey ship that had been involved in a month-long standoff with a Malaysian oil exploration vessel in the South China Sea has left Malaysia's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), shipping data showed today.

Since mid-April, the Haiyang Dizhi 8 (photo) had been surveying in the EEZ, close to where a drillship contracted by Petronas had been...