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
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