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| Mohamad Sabu elected PAS deputy president Posted: 03 Jun 2011 10:04 PM PDT PAS Central Committee member Mohamad Sabu was elected as PAS Deputy President beating incumbent Nasharuddin Mat Isa and vice presiden Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man in the party's election at Taman Melewar today. In the contest for the vice-president's posts Salahuddin Ayub, Datuk Husam Musa and Datuk Mahfuz Omar were elected. |
| US fears clashes in South China Sea: Gates Posted: 03 Jun 2011 08:55 PM PDT SINGAPORE - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned today that clashes may erupt in the South China Sea unless nations with conflicting territorial claims adopt a mechanism to settle disputes peacefully. "There are increasing concerns. I think we should not lose any time in trying to strengthen these mechanisms that I've been talking about for dealing with competing claims in the South China Sea," he said. "I fear that without rules of the road, without agreed approaches to deal with these problems, that there will be clashes. I think that serves nobody's interests," Gates told a security conference in Singapore.
China, the Philippines, Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam have laid claim to overlapping sections of the territories. Gates called on the countries involved to build upon a 2002 agreement between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and China setting a "code of conduct" aimed at resolving disputes peacefully.
In May, Chinese maritime ships confronted a Vietnamese oil exploration vessel between the Paracels and the Spratlys. On Friday, Philippines President Benigno Aquino said the country had documented up to seven incidents in less than four months in which China trespassed into what Manila considers its territorial waters.
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