Pirate attacks remain high in Singapore Strait amid pandemic
Pirate attacks remain high in Singapore Strait amid pandemic Sea piracy and armed robbery in Asian waters jumped 17 percent last year compared with a year earlier, with a particularly high occurrence in the Singapore Strait, a Japan-led international center to combat the scourge said on Friday. A total of 97 such incidents were reported last year, of which the largest -- 34 -- took place in the Singapore Strait, the ReCAAP Information Sharing Center said in its annual report. Masafumi Kuroki, its executive director, partly attributed the rise in incidents in the region to the impact of the CO...
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