SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — The remains of Australian troops killed in the Vietnam War and their families were returned to Sydney Thursday in a formal military ceremony, half a century after being buried in Malaysia and Singapore. Thirty-three bodies, interred in Malaysia’s Terendak Cemetery and Singapore’s Kranji War Cemetery, were brought home in flag-drapped coffins on two Royal Australian Air Force C-17 Globemaster aircraft. Almost 60,000 Australian military personnel fought alongside the United States in […]
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Fallen Australian soldiers repatriated from Malaysia
(Reuters) — The remains of 32 fallen Australian soldiers, many of whom were casualties of the Vietnam war, were repatriated from Malaysia on Tuesday (May 31) in one of the largest such exercises in Australia’s history. The remains of Australian servicemen buried at Malaysia’s Terendak Military Cemetery were handed over to Australian officials during a repatriation ceremony held at the Royal Malaysian Air Force Base in Subang. According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission […]
‘Ang Sabah ay mananatiling nasa Malaysia’- Aman
(Eagle News) — Hindi kinikilala ng Sabah ang pag-angkin ng Pilipinas sa kanilang estado at iginiit na sila ay nasa ilalim ng pamamahala ng Malaysia. Ayon kay Chief Minister Musa Aman, sila ay nasa Malaysia at pinili nilang patuloy na maging bahagi ng soberanya nito mula pa nang ito ay mabuo. Ito ang naging tugon ni Musa, sa pahayag ni President-elect Rodrigo Duterte kung saan sinabi niya ang kaniyang balak na ipagpatuloy ang pagbawi sa […]
INC distribution of pamphlets in Malaysia
Taiwan enters South China Sea legal fray, as group seeks to sway international court
(Reuters) A Taiwanese group has intervened in the Philippines’ international court case against China’s claims in the South China Sea, pressing Taipei’s position that Taiwan is entitled to a swathe of the disputed waterway as an economic zone. The unusual submission has emerged just as judges at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague are poised to rule on the Philippines’ landmark case, brought under the United Nations’ Convention on the Law of […]
Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia to conduct regular joint maritime patrols
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia guaranteed the conduct of regular joint maritime patrols in the Sulu and Celebes Seas by signing an agreement. The patrols are in response to the kidnapping incidents perpetrated by the Abu Sayyaf Group. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
Indonesia calls for joint regional maritime patrols after kidnappings
Indonesia has called for joint maritime patrols with the Philippines and Malaysia, after a spate of kidnappings in waters near the southern Philippines by suspected militants. Around 14 Indonesians and four Malaysians have been abducted in recent weeks by groups with suspected links to Abu Sayyaf bandits. Indonesian military spokesman Tatang Sulaiman they are trying to set up cooperation on coordinated patrols between Malaysia and the Philippines, adding Indonesia had already sent two warships to […]
Chinese military aircraft makes first public landing on disputed island
(Reuters) A Chinese military aircraft has for the first time publicly landed at a new airport on an island China has built in the disputed South China Sea, state media said on Monday, raising the prospect that China could base fighter jets there. The United States has criticized China’s construction of artificial islands in the South China Sea and worries that it plans to use them for military purposes, even though China says it has […]
Crush and burn: Malaysia destroys huge ivory trove
https://youtu.be/L4xrAEhFgko Port Dickson, Malaysia – 14 April 2016 – AFP — Malaysia on Thursday destroyed 9.5 tonnes of elephant ivory it had seized over the years, which authorities hope will help deter smugglers who have long used the country as a trans-shipment point. The huge pile of African elephant tusks, estimated to be worth $20 million, was first fed into in an industrial crusher to be pulverised, and then incinerated in a giant furnace in […]
Gunmen kidnap four Indonesian sailors off Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Gunmen have abducted four Indonesian sailors and shot and wounded one crew member on the high seas off the east coast of Malaysia’s Sabah state, waters where Abu Sayyaf militants are known to operate, a senior police official said Saturday. If the Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf is confirmed to be behind the kidnapping off Borneo, it would be their third such hostage-taking in as many weeks and comes amid a surge […]
Giant python found on Malaysian building site
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — A quarter-tonne snake that was found nestling on a building site could be the longest ever captured in Malaysia, officials said Tuesday. The reticulated python was a whopping 7.5 metres (25 feet) long and weighed a staggering 250 kilogrammes (550 pounds). The giant creature was discovered on Penang island by construction workers and kept in an office, where it was fed and watered while wildlife experts were contacted. However, […]
Nearly 8-metre long snake, which may be world’s biggest, caught in Malaysia
PENANG, Malaysia (Reuters) – A nearly eight-metre long python was captured in Malaysia a few days ago and it may be the longest snake ever to be caught. The python, which was found last Thursday on a construction site in Penang, could slither its way into the record books. It was caught by Civil Defence Department personnel after workers from the construction site in Paya Terubong spotted it under a tree and called the emergency […]
