U.S. to include Jemaah islamiyah on list
U.S. to include Jemaah islamiyah on list
PHILIPPINES: Washington plans to include a regional Muslim
militant group on its list of foreign terrorist organizations and
may seek the backing of the 10-member Association of Southeast
Asian Nations, a Philippine official said on Thursday.
Philippine Foreign Secretary Blas Ople will discuss the
inclusion of the Jemaah Islamiyah, a group that has been accused
of plotting attacks on U.S. and other Western targets in
Singapore, with Malaysian officials when he visits Kuala Lumpur
over the weekend, Foreign Undersecretary Lauro Baja said.
"I think the U.S. request will go one step further and ask for
ASEAN endorsement in accordance with the (memorandum of
understanding) between the ASEAN and the U.S. signed in Brunei,"
Baja said.
The United States and ASEAN countries signed early this month
an anti-terrorism cooperation agreement, one of the most
extensive security arrangements between Washington and its allies
in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. --AP
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Toddler found with cash, certificate
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Toddler found with cash, certificate
MALAYSIA: A 3-year-old Singaporean boy found at a bus stop in
Malaysia with his birth certificate and a wad of cash was
apparently abandoned by his parents, police said on Thursday.
The toddler was sitting at the stop outside police
headquarters in the southern state of Johor when officers found
him before dawn on Wednesday clutching his birth certificate and
wearing a waist pouch with 2,000 ringgit (US$526) stuffed inside,
spokesman Zainal Rashid said.
According to the certificate, the boy is a Singaporean citizen
named Yeo Ming Hong, Zainal said.
The boy seemed unafraid and told officers: "Waiting for Mummy.
Mummy shopping. Mummy will buy food," The Star newspaper reported
on Thursday. --AP
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No right to protect press sources
SINGAPORE: Singapore's High Court has ruled that journalists do
not have the right to protect confidential sources, a local
newspaper reported on Thursday.
The Straits Times reported that Judge Choo Han Teck of the
high court ruled last month that newspaper journalists are not
exempt from the court's power to order the disclosure of
information in civil cases.
Only lawyers and their clients are exempt from disclosure
requirements, the paper quoted Choo as saying.
Choo's ruling was made in a case involving a dispute between
locally listed door manufacturer KLW Holdings and government-
linked publishing conglomerate Singapore Press Holdings, the
paper said.
Singapore Press Holdings' paper, the Business Times, published
an article about KLW in February which the door maker thought was
libelous, the Straits Times report said. --AP