Cooperation vital to security, trade<\/p>\n
SINGAPORE: The attacks on the United States and the threat of
\nterror in Southeast Asia make global cooperation vital to ensure
\nsecurity and economic health, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister
\nTony Tan said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Singapore and neighboring Malaysia have dealt with the rise of
\nhomegrown militancy by arresting dozens of suspects accused of
\nlinks to Muslim radicals in Indonesia and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
On Monday, dozens of academics and regional government
\nofficials will discuss issues ranging from the strategic
\nenvironment to trends in military modernization.<\/p>\n
Singapore is also hosting a four-day Asian aerospace
\nconference and exhibition from Tuesday which will focus heavily
\non security and defense in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on
\nthe World Trade Center and the Pentagon. --Reuters<\/p>\n
;AFP;KOD;
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\nAglance-Malaysia-RP
\nPhilippines, Malaysia cooperate to extradite top Filipino
\ncriminal
\nJP\/9\/ASEAN<\/p>\n
KL to extradite top Filipino criminal<\/p>\n
MALAYSIA: Malaysian police were cooperating with their
\nPhilippines counterparts to extradite a top Filipino criminal who
\nwas arrested here, Philippine Ambassador Jose Brillantes said on
\nSunday.<\/p>\n
Noel Nericueco, 39, is the alleged leader of a gang that
\nPhilippine authorities say carried out several contract killings
\nin the past decade. He fled the Philippines several years ago.<\/p>\n
A top Filipino police officer based in Kuala Lumpur said that
\nNericueo, who is a fugitive in the Philippines, was arrested by
\nMalaysian police last week in northern Penang state.<\/p>\n
The official said Manila had made a request to Malaysian
\npolice to extradite Nericueco, adding that the suspect was wanted
\nfor a series of murders, swindles and rapes in the Philippines.
\n--AFP<\/p>\n
;REUTERS;KOD;
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\nAglance-Cambodia-refugees
\nUN says Cambodia, Vietnam undermining refugee deal
\nJP\/9\/ASEAN<\/p>\n
Cambodia, Vietnam cripple refugee deal<\/p>\n
CAMBODIA: The United Nations and the U.S. on Sunday accused
\nVietnam and Cambodia of undermining an agreement to voluntarily
\nrepatriate asylum seekers fleeing Vietnam's restive Central
\nHighlands.<\/p>\n
The two Southeast Asian governments on Friday announced an
\nApril 30 deadline for returning ethnic minorities to Vietnam
\nduring a controversial trip by Vietnamese officials to a UN
\nrefugee camp in Cambodia.<\/p>\n
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said the
\ndeadline jeopardized the \"voluntariness\" of returns and the
\nUnited States labeled it as bid to marginalize the world body.<\/p>\n
Police in Cambodia used electric shock batons to subdue
\nseveral asylum seekers who verbally objected to going back to
\nVietnam during the visit, rights activists and witnesses said.<\/p>\n
More than 1,000 Vietnamese minority people, most of them
\nmembers of Christian hilltribes who supported the United States
\nduring the Vietnam War, are housed in two UN-run facilities in
\nCambodia. --Reuters<\/p>\n
;AFP;KOD;
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\nAglance-Malaysia-S'pore
\nSingapore land reclamation should not encroach on Malaysian terri
\nJP\/9\/ASEAN<\/p>\n
KL worried about S'pore land reclamation<\/p>\n
MALAYSIA: Kuala Lumpur hopes neighboring Singapore's land
\nreclamation program will not encroach on its territory, Deputy
\nPrime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\"Singapore's land reclamation activity is getting closer to
\nMalaysia's border. What they do within their borders is their
\naffair,\" he told reporters.<\/p>\n
\"But what is important is they do not encroach into our
\nterritory.\"<\/p>\n
The Berita Harian newspaper, a Malay-language daily, Sunday
\nreported that Singapore was carrying out reclamation works that
\ncould disrupt the water flow of the Tebrau Strait off Malaysia's
\nsouthernmost state Johor. Malaysia and Singapore are separated by
\nthe narrow Strait of Johor. --AFP<\/p>\n
;AP;KOD;
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\nAglance-RP-People Power
\nLeft-wing groups to use 'people power' anniversary to protest
\nU.S.
\nJP\/9\/ASEAN<\/p>\n
Left-wing groups to use 'people power'<\/p>\n
PHILIPPINES: Left-wing groups said on Sunday they will use the
\nanniversary of the \"people power\" revolution that ousted dictator
\nFerdinand Marcos 16 years ago to protest a counterterrorism
\nexercise involving U.S. troops in the southern Philippines.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of activists plan to march in front of the heavily
\nguarded U.S. Embassy compound in Manila to protest the exercise
\naimed at improving the Philippine military's capability to
\ndestroy Abu Sayyaf rebels holding an American missionary couple
\nhostage.<\/p>\n
Leftist groups have held small but almost daily protests
\nagainst the war exercise, which they say violates a
\nconstitutional prohibition on the presence of foreign troops.<\/p>\n
They have criticized Arroyo for her strong support for U.S.
\nmilitary involvement in Philippine counterterrorism efforts,
\ncalling her an \"Am-girl.\" --AP<\/p>",
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