,,,Yoohohoo !!....chopper landed on beach front of Capt's Longhouse, Kapas Island on 14th, 15th and 16th Feb'2010. Visitors of the PirateKing !. Topic for deliberation...geee indeed more about pirates of South China Sea ?(infact, they came for some scuba diving-lah !. hehehe...just kidding yaa.)
,,,Pirates attacks in the South China Sea are increasing and Malaysia has urged the bordering nations to work together to fight the threat. "Piracy there is not conventional any more. Pirates feel that the countries don't patrol the sea enough," Defence Minister Zahid Hamidi was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times newspaper. Zahid said that state-of-the art technology adopted by the navies of some littoral nations were useless without cooperation in combating the high-seas menace. You bet !.
,,,The International Maritime Bureau (IMB), a global maritime watchdog, said there were 22 attacks reported in the area for the first 11 months of this year compared to 17 for the whole of 2008."The cases are quite sporadic as once we report an attack to the authorities the numbers go down but they then slowly creep up again," said Noel Choong, head of the IMB's global piracy reporting centre. He said the affected area lies in a triangle between Indonesia's Anambas Islands, Tioman Island off Malaysia and the eastern Singapore Straits.
,,,The South China Sea is bordered by Brunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam. "The challenge for neighbouring countries is to try to contain this piracy level while it is still small before it gets out of control like in Somalia".
,,,Pirate attacks in the Malacca Strait, which was once the world's worst piracy hotspot, have declined sharply in recent years thanks to large-scale coordinated patrols involving Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore plus also partly the after effects of the Tsunami that destroyed the pirate fleets.
,,,More than 30 percent of world trade, and half the world's oil shipments, pass through the busy waterway of the Malacca Strait. And its becoming a bottle neck for the passing ships too.
,,,Surely they should seek some real advise from the KapasPirateKing ?. yoo !
