SINGAPORE: The websites of Singapore’s president and prime minister have been hacked after it vowed to crack down on activist group Anonymous, which is demanding greater Internet freedom in the city-state, officials confirmed yesterday.
The hacking happened about an hour after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s website displayed mocking messages and pictures from Anonymous, which is demanding the scrapping of rules requiring Singapore news websites to obtain annual licenses.
Hostage-taker holds 6 people
MANILA: A man high on drugs took hostage six members of a family in Taguig City for more than three hours.
Taguig Mayor Lani Cayetano said authorities managed to rescue the victims, including a two-year-old boy, unhurt from the hands of hostage-taker Rael Aquino, 27 at past 4pm.
“The operation was a success... He’s thinking of opening the LPG tank. He was trying to open the tank,” Cayetano said right after the authorities rescued the victims.
Foiled attempt to burn school
NORTH COTABATO: Gunmen attempted but failed to burn down a public school in one of a dozen barangays in Pikit town where special local elections were held yesterday.
Captain Tony Bulao, spokesman of the Army’s 602nd Brigade, said the group that tried to set on fire an elementary school in Barangay Bago Inged is identified with a candidate for barangay chairman, who wants the elections deferred to a later date.
Agencies
