A five-day exercise simulating a hostage rescue and plane seizure held by Philippines and US forces to refocus their military alliance towards counter-terrorism finished on September 26.
A special team from the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) on September 7 foiled the hijacking of a Thai oil tanker and arrested 10 pirates aboard the ship in the Pulau Tenggol waters.
A Malaysia Airlines plane was forced to land in Australia’s Melbourne city after a passenger claimed to have bomb, Malaysian Deputy Minister of Transport Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said on May 31.