Satellite images showing the 55m-high lighthouse (above) on Subi Reef, near where the US guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen sailed last October. The official Xinhua news agency said the lighthouse "can provide efficient navigation services such as positioning reference, route guidance and navigation safety information to ships, which can improve navigation management and emergency response".PHOTOS: REUTERS
Satellite images showing the 55m-high lighthouse on Subi Reef (above), near where the US guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen sailed last October. The official Xinhua news agency said the lighthouse "can provide efficient navigation services such as positioning reference, route guidance and navigation safety information to ships, which can improve navigation management and emergency response".PHOTOS: REUTERS
China has begun operating a lighthouse on one of its artificial islands in the South China Sea, near where an American warship sailed last year to challenge Beijing's territorial claims.
China claims most of the energy- rich waters of the South China Sea, through which about US$5 trillion (S$6.8 trillion) in ship-borne trade passes every year. But neighbours Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.
The Chinese Transport Ministry held a "completion ceremony", marking the start of operations of the 55m-high lighthouse on Subi Reef, where construction began last October, the official Xinhua news agency said late on Tuesday.
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/beijing-opens-lighthouse-on-man-made-island-in-south-china-sea
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