RP nearer to finding Al-Ghozi
RP nearer to finding Al-Ghozi
PHILIPPINES: The Philippine army said on Friday it was getting
closer to recapturing Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozi on the southern
island of Mindanao after the Indonesian militant escaped from a
Manila jail in mid-July.
"Al-Ghozi is still there. We have leads and, hopefully, within
the week we will have good news," army chief Lt. Gen. Gregorio
Camiling told a news conference.
He did not elaborate on what the leads were or say when the
army hoped to recapture Al-Ghozi.
The self-confessed member of the Islamic militant network
Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) is accused of masterminding bombings in
Manila in December 2000 that killed 22 people.
Al-Ghozi was arrested by Philippine police in January 2002 and
jailed later that year. He walked out his cell at the heavily
guarded national police headquarters on July 14. --Reuters
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Police, masseuses dispute charges
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Police, masseuses dispute charges
THAILAND: Bangkok police have refused to accept criminal
complaints from masseuses against undercover police who allegedly
had sex with, and then arrested them, in an antiprostitution
sting operation, news reports said on Friday.
Col. Varanvas Karunyathat, the acting chief of police in the
Bangkok district of Suthisahn, was quoted by The Nation newspaper
as saying officers involved in the sting operation needed to have
sex with the masseuses to gain evidence for their arrest.
Police arrested nine masseuses and receptionists on Tuesday
night after officers posing as customers allegedly caught the
women engaging in prostitution.
Varanvas defended the police action and said that in addition
to the testimony of the undercover officers police confiscated
hundreds of used condoms from the four massage parlors raided on
Tuesday night. --DPA
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Teenager caught in e-mail hoax
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Teenager caught in e-mail hoax
SINGAPORE: Authorities in Singapore have charged a 14-year-old
boy for posing as the nation's education minister in an email
hoax, local media reported on Friday.
Hoping to trick his school principal into expelling two
students, the boy allegedly used email to pose as former
Education Minister Teo Chee Hean in May, the Straits Times
newspaper said. Teo is now the Defense Minister.
The bespectacled boy, who appeared in court on Thursday with
his mother, is out on bail of $6,000 (US$3,415) and is due in
court again on Oct. 2, the paper said.
Adults found guilty of the offense could face S$50,000 in
fines or 10 years in jail, or both. Fines for minors include
community service, probation, being placed in a juvenile home or
reformative training. --Reuters
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Water dispute brought to arbitration
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Water dispute brought to arbitration
MALAYSIA: Malaysia and Singapore have agreed that their long-
running spat over water will be settled through arbitration,
Malaysia's foreign minister said on Friday.
The two neighbors have been in a fierce rhetorical battle for
years over the price Singapore pays for water pumped each day
across a short causeway connecting the island city-state to
peninsular Malaysia.
Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said Malaysian laws would be
applied in an arbitration process to resolve the dispute. He
added that his country was preparing to present its case.
It was not immediately clear who or what organization would
arbitrate the dispute. In February, Malaysia and Singapore agreed
to take a festering territorial dispute over a strategic island
to the World Court. --AP