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| Southeast Asia |
| Noodling Around with Fake Passports |
| 2004-06-15 |
| FAKE passports and work permits have been smuggled into Malaysia from Indonesia in packets of instant noodles. Police made the discovery in a raid on an apartment in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. They arrested six Indonesians and seized 374 passports and more than 700 work permits, police Assistant Commissioner Hasanudin Hasan said.Some of the passports were found still inside packets of instant noodles - 14 passports to a pack, Tuesdayâs New Straits Times newspaper said in a report headed "Have instant noodles, will travel." "If you examine the packets you would think they were instant noodles because they also left some bits of noodles and the sachets of seasoning in them," another officer, Fauzi Shaari, was quoted as saying. Police said a syndicate of smugglers had been buying the passports and forged work permits in Indonesia and selling them to illegal immigrants in Malaysia. Those arrested face charges under the Passport Act, which carries a maximum penalty of six years imprisonment, large fines and whipping. Malaysia is one of Southeast Asiaâs wealthiest countries and is a magnet for foreign workers from its poorer neighbors, including Indonesia and the Philippines. |
| Posted by:Zenster |
| #7 [Steve Martin] Welllll excuuuuuuuuuuse me!!!!!! [/Steve Martin] |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-06-15 11:46:15 PM |
| #6 Damn. That last was garbled. Just look up the HTML big and small tags. Here is a pretty good free site. You can also look up HTML guides on Google or Yahoo. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2004-06-15 9:53:42 PM |
| #5 It's better to use HTML and tags. This text is big. This text is small. Look up HTML entities too so you can get âtypographer's quotesâ instead of "typewriter quotes". |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2004-06-15 9:45:20 PM |
| #4 One day ima learn to make the big type. Very simple, Shipman. [font size=X]insert text here[/font] Now substitute < and > for the [ and ] type brackets and you're hot to trot. Here are the font sizes: X = 1 = FONT EXAMPLE 2 = FONT EXAMPLE 3 = FONT EXAMPLE 4 = FONT EXAMPLE 5 = FONT EXAMPLE And so forth. Use bolding to emphasize if needed. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-06-15 8:09:05 PM |
| #3 One day ima learn to make the big type. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-06-15 7:22:14 PM |
| #2 Now with improved C-4 flavor packet! |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-06-15 7:18:44 PM |
| #1 Those Ramen were a'roamin'. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-06-15 6:34:35 PM |