The two passengers who managed to board MAS flight MH370 with stolen passports have brought to light the loopholes in immigration checks as well as the booming trade in fake credentials. We look at some facts and figures behind stolen passports.
By: The Star (www.thestar.com.my)
The two passengers who managed to board MAS flight MH370 with stolen passports have brought to light the loopholes in immigration checks as well as the booming trade in fake credentials. We look at some facts and figures behind stolen passports.
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By: New Straits Times (www.nst.com.my)
The photographs of the two impostors who boarded Flight MH370 that went missing on Saturday have been released to international intelligence agencies. By: Eveline Danubrata and Mark Hosenball (www.reuters.com)
Investigators in Malaysia are voicing skepticism that the airliner that disappeared early Saturday with 239 people on board was the target of an attack, U.S. and European government sources close to the probe said. By: Ong Hwee Hwee (www.nst.com.my)
1. Act of terrorism There was speculation that MH370 might have been attacked by terrorists after the Malaysian authorities said on Sunday they were investigating two passengers who were using stolen passports. But officials and experts was quick to point out that there was no proof of foul play so far and there could be other explanations for the use of false identity documents. The two passengers bought their tickets through China Southern Airlines, which was code-sharing the flight with Malaysia Airlines. They were using the documents of an Italian and an Austrian who apparently had their passports stolen in Thailand during the past two years, and had made police reports about the theft. By: Carl Thayer (www.thediplomat.com)
For the past two years China has dispatched a flotilla of People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) warships to the farthest reaches of the South China Sea to assert Beijing’s claim to “indisputable sovereignty” over the waters and features lying within its nine-dashed line. Beijing’s ambitious claim covers an estimated eighty percent of the South China Sea. On each occasion PLAN warships sailed to James Shoal, or Beting Serupai in Malay, eighty kilometers off the coast of East Malaysia. According to Bill Hayton, who is completing a book on the South China Sea, China’s claim is based on a double historical error. By: Clint Richards (www.thediplomats.com)
Over the past few years, China has steadily increased its assertiveness in the South China Sea. Its most recent claim to fishing rights over most of this territory has given other countries in the region cause to worry that China may soon try to implement an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) across the South China Sea as it tries to assert its claim out to the controversial nine-dash line. This would put Chinese jurisdiction literally just off the shores of most Southeast Asian countries. While all the countries neighboring China’s claims are worried about this threat to their sovereignty, few have the means to challenge it, especially on their own. Indonesia is perhaps one country that could do so with the help of a substantial ally. It also has the resources to fund a navy capable of defending its territorial waters. Nonetheless, it remains to be seen if Indonesia can harness its economic potential and transform itself into a substantial regional power. By: Oscar Nkala (www.defensenews.com)
South Africa’s Denel Aerostructures (DAe) and Malaysian company Strand Aerospace Malaysia have signed a deal that initiates an indirect offsets program South Africa is offering in return for the Malaysian Army’s 3.5 billion Malaysian ringgit (US $1.1 billion) order of Denel Land Systems turrets for its eight-wheel-drive armored infantry fighting vehicles. By: Robert Wall and Andrea Rothman (www.businessweek.com)
Enders said today that his company is “still bargaining” over the delivery process with Turkey, which has 10 A400Ms on order and is one of seven so-called core customers that signed up for the military transport plane almost 11 years ago. By: Jim Gomez (www.ap.org)
The Philippines on Thursday called on Malaysia, Vietnam and other claimants to join its legal challenge to China's massive territorial claim in the South China Sea. By Stuart Grudgings (http://uk.reuters.com)
(Reuters) - The submerged reef would be easy to miss, under turquoise seas about 80 km (50 miles) off Malaysia's Borneo island state of Sarawak. But two Chinese naval exercises in less than a year around the James Shoal have shocked Malaysia and led to a significant shift in its approach to China's claims to the disputed South China Sea, senior diplomats told Reuters. The reef lies outside Malaysia's territorial waters but inside its 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone. By: Reuters (www.reuters.com)
BAE Systems expects to submit a leasing proposal for the Eurofighter Typhoon jet to Malaysia next month, as its cash-strapped government mulls over renting, rather than buying fighter aircraft. By: Thales (www.thalesgroup.com)
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By: The Star (www.thestar.com.my)
The fleet of Nuri helicopters and Hercules transport aircraft of the RMAF will undergo service-life extension and upgrade work as usual, says Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein. He denied claims from a news report that the upgrade work of the country’s air defence fleet would be deferred as part of the Government’s austerity measures. Oleh: Mohd Hazli Hassan (www.utusan.com.my)
KUALA LUMPUR 17 Feb. - Pengunjung ke Pameran Perkhidmatan Pertahanan Asia (DSA) 2014 kali ini bakal dihidangkan dengan demonstrasi ketenteraan yang lebih hebat berbanding siri-siri DSA yang lepas. Tanpa mahu mengulas lebih lanjut, Panglima Angkatan Tentera, Jen. Tan Sri Zulkifeli Mohd. Zin berkata, pastinya demonstrasi ketenteraan yang akan dipamerkan kelak mampu mengujakan pengunjung ke DSA 2014. |
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