Tanker hijackings raise piracy concerns in seas around Singapore
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Two tanker hijackings in about a month in the South China Sea and Malacca Strait, a route for about a quarter of sea borne oil trade, have fuelled fears piracy could be on the rise in the area, potentially driving up ship …
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Chinese Internet firms sue Baidu for online piracy
The Joint Action Against Online Video Piracy in China, which also includes Youku Tudou Inc, Dalian Wanda Group and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), said in a statement that Baidu and others had been using an automated process to …
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US Navy combats piracy near Somalia
MPAA backs anti-piracy curriculum for elementary school students
Then there was "Crime-Fighting Canines," a weekly anti-piracy comic strip series for children in which two black Labrador retrievers named Lucky and Flo sniffed out bootleg DVDs. The series was part of a school education campaign led by the MPAA.
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Marines may put pirates in crosshairs with beefed-up Nigerian mission
As armed pirates continue to terrorize waters off Africa's west coast at three times the rate than their Somali counterparts on the continent's eastern coast, Marine officials are considering expanding its presence in and around the Gulf of Guinea to …
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Commentary: Anti-piracy battle didn't end with Captain Phillips
The administration wielded international legal tools to deter piracy through effective capture, prosecution and incarceration. The U.S. supported efforts to increase prison capacity in Somalia and establish specialized piracy chambers in the national …
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White House notes increase in west Africa piracy as Americans held hostage
"In Somalia the pirates moved on," said Christian Bueger, a lecturer in international relations at Cardiff university and editor of piracy-studies.org, a home for academic research on maritime piracy. "They went into other businesses. Running a piracy …
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