Tuesday #sgroundup: Chinese worker kidnapped in Malaysia*s Borneo island

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Chinese worker kidnapped in Malaysia's Borneo island
 A Chinese national has been seized in Malaysia's Borneo island by Filipino gunmen, a security official saY …
A Chinese national has been seized in Malaysia's Borneo island by Filipino gunmen, a security official said Tuesday in the wake of tension between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing over missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Mohammad Mentek, director-general of security in the east of Malaysia's Sabah state, identified the victim as 34-year-old Yang Zai Lin, who worked as a manager at a fish farm.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/chinese-worker-kidnapped-malaysias-borneo-island-073000786.html
 
Diver dies at South Korea ferry disaster site
 
A diver died Tuesday while working at a ferry disaster site in South Korea as further details emerged about how deception and negligence contributed to the 16 April tragedy.

The 53-year-old was on his first dive at the site and suffered breathing difficulties after reaching a depth of 25 metres (82 feet), coastguard spokesman Ko Myung-Suk told journalists.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/diver-dies-south-korea-ferry-disaster-045927479.html
 
Two explosions rock southern Thai tourist town, five wounded
 Cars are engulfed in flames after a bomb hidden in a car exploded at a police station parking lot in Hat Yai district …
Two bombs exploded minutes apart in the southern Thai city of Hat Yai on Tuesday, wounding five people, and police said they suspected Muslim rebels were responsible.

One bomb exploded outside a convenience store near a school while a second bomb went off near a police station.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/two-explosions-rock-southern-thai-tourist-town-five-090847504.html
 
6 injured in hacking attack at Chinese station
 In this photo taken by a mobile phone, a suspected assailant is taken away after being subdued in an attack at …
A hacking attack Tuesday at a busy railway station in southern China left six people injured, police said, in the third high-profile attack on civilians at a train station in a little more than two months.

It was not immediately clear if there was more than one assailant, and there was no immediate word on a motive for the violence in the Guangdong provincial capital of Guangzhou.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/6-injured-hacking-attack-chinese-station-054605455.html
 
Thai court to rule Wednesday in abuse of power case against PM
 Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (R) and Deputy Prime Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul arrive …
Thailand's Constitutional Court said it will rule in an abuse of power case against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Wednesday, with a guilty verdict likely to force her from office and possibly bring her supporters on to the streets.

That could lead to confrontation with anti-government groups who have been protesting in the capital, Bangkok, for six months in a bid to topple Yingluck and who disrupted a general election in February that she had been expected to win.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/thai-pm-court-hearing-may-lead-her-dismissal-032328231.html

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