[97582] in North American Network Operators' Group
Vietnam arrests alledged fiber-optic cable thieves
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Jun 25 01:04:50 2007
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:01:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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http://www.thanhniennews.com/society/?catid=3&newsid=29347
Police arrested two more people Saturday for stealing undersea fiber-optic
cables off the southern coast of Vietnam, including the group.s suspected
leader. Ten have been apprehended in the case so far.
[...]
Eleven kilometers of the TVH (Thailand-Vietnam-Hong Kong) line and 32 km
of the APCN (Asia Pacific Cable Network), linking nine Asian countries,
have been stolen.
