ASEAN – The Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) has called off the search for 14-year-old Dutch diver Nathen Renze Chesters, who went missing for four days while diving off the coast of Pulau Tokong Sanggol. The aid of Indonesian authorities was requested since it was suspected that the young diver had wandered into Indonesian seas. In a statement issued …

Malaysia – Adrian Peter Chesters, a British diver, and Alexia Alexandra Molina, a French national, who went missing on Pulau Tokong Sanggol last Wednesday, were recovered safe early today. Local fisherman discovered them at approximately 1 a.m. south of Pengerang, near Kota Tinggi, and contacted the authorities, according to Mersing police head Supt Cyril Edward Nuing. The two divers were …

Malaysia – Rescuers in northern Myanmar claimed that the verified death toll from a landslide at an illegal jade mine had grown to six, but that the search effort had been called off since dozens of others were still missing and assumed dead. Thousands of people die each year while working in the lucrative but poorly controlled jade trade, in …