Taiping drill will not be rescheduled ahead of elections: officials

The Ocean Affairs Council (OAC) said Monday that there is no need to postpone a scheduled live-fire exercise in the run up to the local government elections since it is a routine drill to test the coastguard's readiness on a small island in the South China Sea.

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