Pirates Rob Japanese Ship in Riau Waters

A Japanese tanker has been attacked by armed pirates off an Indonesian island, the latest in a spate of incidents in a South China Sea shipping lane, a global maritime watchdog said Monday. Noel Choong, head of the International Maritime Bureau Piracy Reporting Centre, said a Japanese-owned chemical tanker was travelling from Singapore to China when it was targeted off Indonesia’s Mangkai island in the Riau Islands province.