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PUTRAJAYA: The Marine Enforcement Agency (MMEA) has assured that patrols and monitoring will be intensified to ensure that the country's waters are safe from the threat of maritime criminals.
KUALA LUMPUR: The proposal to establish a cybercrime team similar to Interpol to strengthen cooperation and enforcement at the regional level is seen as important to combat digital piracy.
Japan is planning to use AI to police anime and manga pirating websites that the pop-culture powerhouse accuses of costing it billions of dollars in lost revenue every year.
Vietnamese authorities, in collaboration with the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), have shut down what is claimed to be the world's largest piracy ring for films and television shows.
Cali (Colombia): Delegates from almost 200 countries are gathering this week in Cali, Colombia, for the biennial United Nations (UN) summit on biodiversity, the first one since the landmark Global Biodiversity Framework was signed in Montreal in December 2022.
App provider Telegram is ready to work together with the government to fight rampant digital piracy on its platform, Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said.
THE daring attack bore unsettling hallmarks of the piracy that once terrorised global shipping off eastern Africa: a cargo vessel hijacked, its crew taken to Somalia, and disappeared.
AS a speed boat carrying more than a dozen Somali pirates bore down on their position in the western Indian Ocean, the crew of a Bangladeshi-owned bulk carrier sent out a distress signal and called an emergency hotline.
You found the perfect holiday gift online. You ordered it. A notification arrived on your phone, showing the package had arrived. But when you open your doors, the parcel is nowhere to be found.
‘Super Mario’ giant Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against a US maker of software that allows video gamers to play games intended for its hugely popular Switch device on their PC or smartphone.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The European Union's anti-piracy force in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea said on Friday the Liberian-flagged merchant vessel Basilisk had been freed from suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia and its 17 crew members were safe.
The Indonesian Navy arrested three individuals who were initially rescued on Monday by Basarnas search and rescue agency after they were stranded in sea due to rogue waves, but investigations later raised suspicions on their seafaring activities.
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Economic uncertainty in many parts of the world is likely to fuel a rise in piracy attacks in Asian waters, said experts.
Anti-piracy authorities say they have cracked down on illegal streaming of films and TV programmes, but data suggests the practice is booming, reaching 215 billion illegal site visits last year.
A major website for pirated Japanese anime has shut down after Chinese authorities arrested four people accused of involvement, according to a Tokyo-based lobby group that hailed the move as “groundbreaking”.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Sports events organisers such as Sky, Canal+ and FIFA should be allowed to secure injunctions against online piracy of live events, the European Commission said on Thursday, following calls from companies for action against a problem that costs them billions of euros annually.
Three bulk carriers were robbed in the Singapore Strait earlier this week, a Singapore-based regional maritime security centre on Friday.
Analysts are turning cautious on Astro Malaysia Holdings Bhd, given the group's dismal financial year 2025 (FY25) results, which fell short of most consensus estimates.
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's top commercial broadcaster MFE-Mediaforeurope said on Wednesday its unit Mediaset had partnered up with Facebook owner Meta Platforms to fight online piracy.
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