Monday, February 20th, 2006

KLIA: Double glitches in 2 weeks

[UPDATED VERSION] On Feb 7, a disruption to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) Passenger Check-In Processing System (PCPS) affected several flights out of the airport to various destionations.

All MAS flights and flights handled by the airline were affected while other airlines’ check-in systems were not affected.

On Saturday, another system glitch caused a disruption to [...]

How to win ‘the election’ even before the start of ‘an election’?

Singapore’s Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said Singapore can expect a general election by the end of the year.
"I can tell you election is coming. I can tell you it will be held after the budget. I can tell you further that it will be held before the end of this year."

Singapore’s Deputy Prime [...]

3000 detonators seized: Tawau the transit point?

Via BBC:

(SOURCE: BBC, 17 February 2006)

Via The Jakarta Post:

(SOURCE: The Jakarta Post, 20 February 2006)

According to the report, Borneo (including East Malaysia) plays an important transit point between militant training camps in the southern Philippines and their centres of operation in Indonesia.

Last October, Indonesian police seized a large quantity of explosives and bomb [...]