Six workers kidnapped from Sabah<\/p>\n
MALAYSIA: Gunmen have kidnapped six workers, three Filipinos and
\nthree Indonesians, from a beach resort in the eastern Malaysian
\nstate of Sabah, police said on Monday.<\/p>\n
About 10 men armed with modern weapons, some wearing
\ncamouflage fatigues, forced the six into a boat and took them
\naway late on Sunday, Inspector General of Police Norian Mai told
\na news conference.<\/p>\n
The raid appeared to be the work of local bandits seeking
\nransom, although Sabah, on the north of Borneo island, has been
\ntargeted in the past by militants from across the Sulu Sea in the
\nstrife-torn southern Philippines.<\/p>\n
\"We believe the kidnapping was done by a local group, and not
\na foreign group, whether from the southern Philippines or
\nIndonesia,\" Norian said.<\/p>\n
Police were conducting sea and air searches, he said.<\/p>\n
Norian said the six workers were taken from the Borneo
\nParadise Resort, which runs a summer camp for children. There
\nwere no guests at the resort, at Kuala Sungai Sabahan on Sabah's
\neast coast, at the time of the raid. -- Reuters<\/p>\n
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\nVietnam-media-attack
\nTwo Vietnamese reporters attacked
\nJP\/11\/ASEAN1<\/p>\n
Two Vietnamese reporters attacked<\/p>\n
VIETNAM: Two reporters for state-run newspapers in Vietnam were
\ndetained and one was attacked by a local official while
\ninvestigating complaints that a cooperative was misusing
\ngovernment funds, one of them said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Nong Huyen Son of the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and
\nSocial Affairs' Lao Dong-Xa Hoi newspaper and Ho Xuan Dung from
\nPhap Luat, the justice ministry's mouthpiece, were assaulted on
\nSaturday in Dong Thap province.<\/p>\n
The two Ho Chi Minh City-based journalists had originally
\ntraveled to the southern province's Tan Phu Dong commune to
\nreport on the flour-making industry there.<\/p>\n
However, while speaking to local people they were told that
\nthe Tan Phu Dong Flour Processing Cooperative, whose management
\nthey had hoped to interview, effectively existed in name only,
\nSon told AFP.<\/p>\n
Instead of advising farmers and helping them find markets for
\ntheir products, it was used as a vehicle by the management and
\ncommune officials to receive poverty relief funds or preferential
\ncredits from the government.<\/p>\n
That money was then lent to farmers at very high interest
\nrates, angry locals told Son.<\/p>\n
After being held for around three hours they were released but
\ntheir papers, identification cards and their two motorcycles were
\nconfiscated, Son added. -- AFP<\/p>\n
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\nAirlines-Singapore-threat
\nFlight canceled after bomb threat
\nJP\/11\/ASEAN3<\/p>\n
Flight canceled after bomb threat<\/p>\n
SINGAPORE: Police were investigating a bomb threat that forced
\nSingapore Airlines to cancel a flight to London on Monday,
\nairline officials said.<\/p>\n
Singapore Airlines flight SQ318, due to leave at 9 a.m. (8
\na.m. Jakarta time) with 127 passengers, was rescheduled because
\nof the threat, said airline spokesman Rick Clements.<\/p>\n
\"It was a bomb threat,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The airline said passengers would be transferred to another
\nflight due to leave later on Monday.<\/p>\n
Singapore Airlines and its unit Silk Air have already
\ninstalled bullet-proof reinforced cockpit doors and use sky
\nmarshals armed with stun guns on flights deemed high risk.<\/p>\n
Singapore stepped up security after the Sept. 11, 2001 hijack
\nattacks on the United States and tightened it again after last
\nOctober's devastating bomb blasts on the resort island of Bali in
\nneighboring Indonesia.<\/p>\n
The last known bomb threat against Singapore Airlines involved
\na flight bound for Los Angeles in October last year. -- Reuters<\/p>",
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