On Thursday, rescuers retrieved nine sailors– five Burmese and four Indonesian– who were drifting on a lifeboat in South Vietnamese waters for four days. The sailors had been attacked by pirates who hijacked their vessel and left them adrift at sea. Allegedly the sailors to control of Captain Sann Winnaug’s oil tanker Zafirah just two days after it had left […]
Piracy and Illegal Fishing
Indonesia will host the Asia-Pacific regional conference, held by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), and naval crime will be the focus of the discussion. The conference is scheduled to last four days, and according to Chairman of the ITF’s Asia-Pacific region, Hanafi Rustandi, the subject is so important that it has attracted the attention of the […]