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Korean ChoongHoon Kim was recently appointed country manager of Herbalife in the Philippines.

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Striking into the heavily patrolled Gulf of Aden, Somali pirates seized a British-flagged chemical tanker — the first merchant vessel to be hijacked there in nearly six months, the same day that a ship was taken by brigands in the Indian Ocean, officials said yesterday.

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KUALA LUMPUR (AP) - Somali pirates tried but failed to hijack a North Korean cargo ship when crew members fought back with improvised fire bombs and sped away, a maritime official said today.

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A German tanker with 12 Filipino crewmembers on board was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden on Thursday, Vice President and presidential adviser on overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) Noli de Castro confirmed yesterday.

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CAIRO (AP) – Somali pirates seized an Egyptian cargo ship and its 28 crewmembers yesterday while a Malaysian military helicopter saved an Indian tanker from being hijacked in the new year's first attacks by pirates in the dangerous Gulf of Aden.

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SAN'A (AP) – An international anti-piracy force thwarted the attempted takeover of a Chinese cargo ship off the Somali coast yesterday, sending in attack helicopters that fired on the bandits and forced them to abandon the ship they had boarded.

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NEW DELHI (AP) -The pirate "mother ship" sunk last week by the Indian navy was actually a Thai fishing trawler seized hours earlier by pirates, a maritime agency said Wednesday, but the Indian navy defended its actions, saying it fired in self-defense.

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Striking into the heavily patrolled Gulf of Aden, Somali pirates seized a British-flagged chemical tanker — the first merchant vessel to be hijacked there in nearly six months, the same day that a ship was taken by brigands in the Indian Ocean, officials said yesterday.

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KUALA LUMPUR (AP) - Somali pirates tried but failed to hijack a North Korean cargo ship when crew members fought back with improvised fire bombs and sped away, a maritime official said today.

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A German tanker with 12 Filipino crewmembers on board was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden on Thursday, Vice President and presidential adviser on overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) Noli de Castro confirmed yesterday.

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CAIRO (AP) – Somali pirates seized an Egyptian cargo ship and its 28 crewmembers yesterday while a Malaysian military helicopter saved an Indian tanker from being hijacked in the new year's first attacks by pirates in the dangerous Gulf of Aden.

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SAN'A (AP) – An international anti-piracy force thwarted the attempted takeover of a Chinese cargo ship off the Somali coast yesterday, sending in attack helicopters that fired on the bandits and forced them to abandon the ship they had boarded.

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NEW DELHI (AP) -The pirate "mother ship" sunk last week by the Indian navy was actually a Thai fishing trawler seized hours earlier by pirates, a maritime agency said Wednesday, but the Indian navy defended its actions, saying it fired in self-defense.

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