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PostSubject: South-east Asia's lucrative cargoes attract pirates   South-east Asia's lucrative cargoes attract pirates Icon_minitimeSat Oct 18, 2014 8:33 pm

They no longer fly the skull and crossbones flag, instead clambering aboard ships wielding guns and knives under the cover of darkness.

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"They put knives on our throats and threatened to kill us if we resisted," said Pham Van Hoang, deputy captain of the 4000-tonne Vietnamese-registered ship MT Sunrise 689, which went missing for a week with a crew of 18 after leaving Singapore on October 2.

Modern piracy is surging in the waters of south-east Asia, including the Malacca Strait, a bottleneck for 50,000 ships a year carrying more than a third of the world's shipping trade.

The attack on the MT Sunrise loaded with 5200 tonnes of oil was the 12th ship hijacking in the region since April.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/southeast-asias-lucrative-cargoes-attract-pirates-20141018-117jih.html#ixzz3GXwMrqgW
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