Maybe because the abduction cases were fall under the PDRM first but I was later told that the Special Task Force include the MKN, Wisma Putra and even ATM
Kidnapped Taiwanese tourist rescued by Philippines security forces
KUALA LUMPUR: The Philippines security forces has successfully rescued the Taiwanese woman kidnapped from Pom Pom Island off Sabah on Nov 15, said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar today.
Khalid in his Tweet offered his congratulations to the successful rescue of 58-year old Chang An Wei.
He said the woman was rescued in Sulu and is now being treated at Merin Hospital.
He said she would be flown to Zamboanga City tomorrow.
"Congratulations to the Philippine security forces; the Taiwanese national abducted on Pom Pom has been rescued," he tweeted this evening.
He also tweeted the Malaysian police were awaiting news on the latest development from the Philippine authorities.
Meanwhile, AFP reported Chang, also known as Evelyn Chang, was found by Philippine marines at a village near Talipao, a town on the remote island of Jolo where Abu Sayyaf Islamic militants are known to operate.
“She is in good condition,” local marine brigade commander Colonel Jose Cenabre told AFP by telephone.
The woman was taken to a military hospital for a medical check-up in the town of Jolo, the capital of Jolo island, about 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) south of Manila, Cenabre added.
He said the identities of his kidnappers were unknown, though Abu Sayyaf gunmen who are known carry out kidnappings operate in the area.
Press reports in Malaysia and Taiwan have said the woman and her husband were holidaying on Pom Pom island in Sabah state, which is near the Sulu island group that includes Jolo, when gunmen attacked on November 15.
The reports said the gunmen killed the husband and abducted the wife.
A Jordanian television reporter, Bakr Atyani, walked free from a Jolo jungle earlier this month, 18 months after he was abducted by the Islamist militants.
The Abu Sayyaf is a small Islamist movement that has been blamed for a string of terrorist attacks and kidnappings of foreigners in the Philippines.
It was founded with seed money from Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network to fight for an independent Islamic state, though it later turned into a criminal gang.
US Special Forces have been rotating through Jolo and other parts of the southern Philippines for more than a decade to train local troops battling the group, which is on Washington’s list of “foreign terrorist organisations”.
Philippine authorities say Abu Sayyaf gunmen are believed still to hold a number of foreign as well as Filipino hostages on Jolo, including two European birdwatchers and a Japanese treasure hunter.
Dutchman Ewold Horn and Lorenzo Vinciguerra of Switzerland were abducted in the Tawi-Tawi island group near Jolo in February last year, while Amer Mamaito Katayama of Japan was abducted on the island of Pangutaran near Jolo in July 2010.
nice video, what a complex process to operate submarine. The hardest to operate i think in navy, btw i hope next they make a video how lekiu class operate or maybe in 2018 cant wait the gowind class!
Analysis: Lost Brazil order raises threat to Boeing fighter jets
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Brazil's decision to buy Swedish fighter jets instead of F/A-18 Super Hornets from Boeing eliminates its most promising foreign-sales prospect just as the U.S. company faces critical decisions about extending the jet's production line past 2016.
The loss of the $4.5 billion contract for 36 planes is the latest blow to Boeing's defense division, whose F-15 fighter jet last month lost a potential 60-plane order from South Korea to Lockheed Martin Corp's next-generation F-35 fighter.
Without new orders, both programs, based in St. Louis, Missouri, could fold in several years, effectively putting Boeing out of the fighter-jet business until a next-generation plane is developed, a decade or more in the future. The closures would follow the shuttering of Boeing's C-17 military transport plane production, in Long Beach, California, set for 2015, also because of sagging sales.
All these prospects present a near-term threat to Boeing's defense business. Fighters and C-17s accounted for 40 percent of Boeing's military aircraft deliveries so far this year. Military aircraft sales totaled $11.5 billion in the first nine months of 2013, down from $11.9 billion a year ago. (Boeing does not break down revenue by product line.)
Spokesman Conrad Chun said Boeing was disappointed about the loss in Brazil but remained confident about the Super Hornet's prospects in Europe and the Middle East.
DCNS-LAdroit 1400 tons (Gowind class demo ship) on sell, DCNS finding country to buy this ship with price Max Euro 200 million. it built from civilian specification. L'Adroit lease to France Navy for 2 year. RMN intrested or not? .... no need to wait ... can get ship very fast and can act as training ship for future our Gowind....SGPV
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DCNS-LAdroit 1400 tons (Gowind class demo ship) on sell, DCNS finding country to buy this ship with price Max Euro 200 million. it built from civilian specification. L'Adroit lease to France Navy for 2 year. RMN intrested or not? .... no need to wait ... can get ship very fast and can act as training ship for future our Gowind....SGPV
I dun think we need it. Euro200mil will be better spend on getting more cb90s and some heli.