Bomb attempt foiled in Palu<\/p>\n
Palu, CENTRAL SULAWESI: The Central Sulawesi Police bomb squad
\ndefused a bomb at the Hasanuddin shopping center in Palu on
\nMonday morning.<\/p>\n
The bomb was discovered at about 4 a.m. after a scavenger
\nreported a suspicious plastic bag to the shopping center's
\nsecurity guard, who contacted the police.<\/p>\n
The chief of the provincial police's Mobile Brigade, Adj. Sr.
\nComr. Saiful Bahri, confirmed the bomb plot and said the homemade
\nexplosive had been defused.<\/p>\n
He said the police were investigating the motive for the
\nthwarted attack and the possible culprits.<\/p>\n
There have been four bombings in the provincial capital over
\nthe last two months. A major blast occurred on July 17 in the
\nPantai Penghibur recreation park, destroying a cafe. There were
\nno fatalities. --Antara<\/p>\n
Smuggling of tortoises foiled<\/p>\n
Surabaya, EAST JAVA: About 1,600 tortoises of various species
\nwere seized by the police on Monday at Surabaya's Tanjung Priok
\nPort before they were smuggled to Riau.<\/p>\n
Rosek Nursahid, the head of KSBK, a nonprofit wildlife
\nprotection institute, said on Monday the tortoises were being
\nloaded onto a motorboat for delivery to Riau via Banjarmasin,
\nWest Kalimantan, when they were seized.<\/p>\n
Seven hundred of the tortoises are unprotected species, 650
\ninternationally protected and the rest are partly protected by
\nLaw No. 5\/1990 on the conservation of biological resources.<\/p>\n
Yellow-necked tortoises, though legally tradable, can be sold
\nonly with permits from the Convention of International Trade in
\nEndangered Species and the provincial National Resources
\nConservation Center.<\/p>\n
\"The confiscated tortoises should be released into rivers in
\nconservation zones in order to better guarantee their survival,\"
\nadded Rosek Nursahid. --Antara<\/p>\n
Luxury cars from S'pore seized in Batam<\/p>\n
Batam, RIAU: The customs authority in Batam, Riau, is holding
\n152 used luxury cars that entered the country illegally from
\nSingapore, and is seeking a way to reexport them.<\/p>\n
Informed sources told Antara on Monday that a lot of stolen
\ncars from Thailand and Malaysia, mostly sedans, were sent to
\nBatam through illegal terminals in Singapore.<\/p>\n
Batam customs officials, meanwhile, said they could not yet
\nset a date to reexport the vehicles to Singapore, which tended to
\nrefuse the indirect import of used vehicles.<\/p>\n
At present, about 200 more vehicles are reportedly ready to
\nenter Batam from Singapore, but have been prevented from doing so
\nfollowing an outcry in the media. Batam has banned the import of
\nused cars from Singapore since April 2002. --Antara<\/p>",
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