SEMPORNA: Mabul island has been touted as the safest area in the east coast of Sabah to holiday. Now, the myth has been shattered. “Don’t worry about visiting Ma­­bul,” a top Sabah Tourism ...

To recall, the Abu Sayyaf members in April 2000 kidnapped 21 people—of which 10 were Western tourists, 9 were Malaysians, and 2 were Filipinos—-from a dive resort in Sipadan, Malaysia. The victims ...

The abduction was “a carefully laid out plan to execute the crimes charged,” it added. Of the 21 victims at the Sipadan Diving Resort in Malaysia, 10 were foreign tourists — three Germans, two Finnish ...