evidence: On August 1, the Malaysian government inaugurated a new maritime base near Pedra Branca, an outlying island that is now under the jurisdiction of neighboring Singapore but which Kuala Lumpur still believes is part of its territory. Though construction of the facility had already been completed last year, its unveiling was just the latest sign of the revival of a decades-old dispute that has long roiled bilateral ties. As I have noted before, Malaysia and Singapore have had a rather prickly relationship in the past and problems tend to arise in ties from time to time. Pedra Branca is a case in point. Though the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled back in May 2008 that Singapore had sovereignty over it after a decades-long row, Malaysia filed a new application to the ICJ last February to revise the judgment citing new evidence from documents discovered in British archives, with a separate application for interpretation filed this June. [...] Last week, in yet another related development, Malaysia unveiled a new maritime base near Pedra Branca. The Abu Bakar Maritime Base, built on the Malaysian-owned Middle Rocks, which consists of two clusters of rocks and lies just one kilometer away from Pedra Branca, was inaugurated by the Sultan of Johor, Ibrahim Ismail Iskandar, along with other defense officials including Malaysia’s navy chief Ahmad Kamarulzaman Ahmad Badaruddin.