Taiwan arrests
\nRI sailors<\/p>\n
TAIPEI (Reuter): Taiwan authorities have arrested nine
\nIndonesian sailors for alleged gun-running to Taiwan's
\nunderworld, the coastguard said yesterday.<\/p>\n
The nine are alleged to have tried to smuggle 16 handguns and
\n776 bullets on a cargo ship that docked at the southern port of
\nKaohsiung after sailing from Bangkok, a coastguard statement
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
"All nine are still being detained," a coastguard spokesman
\nsaid." We are still looking for another man, whom the sailors
\ncall Tony. He was supposed to take delivery of the guns in
\nKaohsiung."<\/p>\n
The sailors had been promised US$200 for delivering each of
\nthe guns, he said. "Tony" -- also an Indonesian -- was to sell
\nthem to the local underworld for US$500 each.<\/p>\n
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\nAglance-Philippines-ship
\nS'pore ship barred from leaving Manila
\nJP\/11\/ASEAN2<\/p>\n
S'pore ship barred
\nfrom leaving Manila<\/p>\n
MANILA (Reuter): Owners of a Philippine ferry involved in a
\ncollision in which more than 140 people died won a temporary
\ncourt order yesterday preventing the other vessel, a Singapore-
\nregistered ship, from leaving Manila.<\/p>\n
The Manila Regional Trial Court issued the order requiring the
\nCustoms, Coast Guard and ports authority to prevent the 12,549-
\nton container ship Kota Suria from departing.<\/p>\n
William Lines, the owners of the Cebu City ferry which sank a
\nweek ago after colliding with the Kota Suria at the mouth of
\nManila Bay, said they would be seeking unspecified damages from
\nthe cargo ship's owners.<\/p>\n
Altogether 47 bodies have been recovered since the accident,
\nbut divers were continuing to search the wreck of the Cebu City
\nfor around 100 people still missing. More than 450 people were
\nrescued.<\/p>\n
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\nAglance-Thailand-animals
\nKangaroos, birds seized from trawler
\nJP\/11\/ASEAN3<\/p>\n
Smuggle attempt
\nfoiled<\/p>\n
BANGKOK (Reuter): Thai customs officials seized from a
\ndrifting fishing trawler south of Bangkok about 100 young
\nkangaroos and various kinds of birds believed to have come from
\nAustralia.<\/p>\n
The officials, acting on a tip, searched the trawler about 100
\nkilometers south of Bangkok late on Thursday, they told reporters
\nyesterday.<\/p>\n
No person was on board but the officials found cages
\ncontaining about 100 baby kangaroos and various kinds of birds,
\nincluding 82 baby cockatoos, two birds of paradise and two emus,
\nall very young and looking weak and exhausted.<\/p>\n
Four kangaroos had already died from exhaustion, a
\nveterinarian said.<\/p>\n
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\nAglance-Philippines-Pope
\nChina's delegates to welcome Pope
\nJP\/11\/ASEAN4<\/p>\n
China's delegates
\nto welcome Pope<\/p>\n
MANILA (AFP): China is to send 100 delegates to the World
\nYouth Day celebrations in the Philippines next month, where
\n300,000 young people from around the world will be addressed by
\nPope John Paul II, organizers said yesterday.<\/p>\n
The Vatican has no formal ties with the state-sponsored "open"
\nRoman Catholic church in Beijing, but the Rev. Socrates Villegas
\nsaid the Chinese agreed to take part in the biennial event for
\nthe first time following "government to government" talks with
\nthe hosts.<\/p>\n
"Surprisingly, the Chinese government made it easy for us to
\nget the delegates to come" to the Jan. 12-14 meeting in Manila,
\nVillegas told a news conference.<\/p>\n
He said the delegates were all members of China's "open"
\nCatholic church. There would be no representatives of the
\n"underground" Chinese Catholics who are loyal to the pope, he
\nadded.<\/p>\n
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\nAglance-Singapore-drugs
\nThree hanged for trafficking
\nJP\/11\/ASEAN5<\/p>\n
Three hanged
\nfor trafficking<\/p>\n
SINGAPORE (Reuter): Two Malaysians convicted of trafficking in
\nheroin were hanged yesterday along with their Singaporean
\naccomplice, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said.<\/p>\n
The three men were arrested in July 1989 after CNB officers
\nrecovered 39 packets of heroin weighing 8.25 kilograms from a
\nsecret compartment in the fuel tank of a vehicle in which the two
\nMalaysian technicians were travelling.<\/p>\n
CNB officers had earlier followed the Malaysian-registered
\nvehicle of Tan Seang Hock, 40, and Yeap Kai Pang, 38. Singaporean
\nbarber Kong Weng Chong, 56, was travelling separately in a taxi,
\nCNB said.<\/p>\n
In November 1992, the Singapore high court sentenced the three
\nmen to death. A year later, the Court of Criminal Appeal rejected
\ntheir appeals.<\/p>\n
The death sentence is mandatory for anyone found guilty of
\ntrafficking in more than 15 grams of heroin, 30 grams of morphine
\nor 500 grams of cannabis.<\/p>\n
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\nAglance-RP-workers
\nFilipino workers not target of crackdown
\nJP\/11\/ASEAN6<\/p>\n
Filipino workers not
\ntarget of crackdown<\/p>\n
MANILA (Reuter): Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim
\nsaid yesterday Filipinos were not being singled out in his
\ngovernment's crackdown on illegal workers.<\/p>\n
"The issue of illegal workers is real. It is not just confined
\nto Filipinos," he told a press forum on a visit to Manila.<\/p>\n
Anwar said the problem also involves people from other
\ncountries, such as Indonesia and Myanmar.<\/p>\n
Filipino workers in Malaysia have complained about what they
\nperceive as heavy-handed treatment by authorities in Kuala
\nLumpur.<\/p>\n
Malaysia welcomes foreign workers, Anwar said, since it is
\nshort of both skilled and unskilled workers, but will continue to
\nmonitor illegal immigration.<\/p>\n
"How do you expect a government just to allow the free flow of
\nillegal workers without any form of enforcement?" he said.<\/p>",
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