Malaysia Airline
Malaysia
There are two national labor organizations. The MTUC is a federation of all unions in the country, in both the private and government sectors. The Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Service is a federation of civil servant and teacher unions. Although the law grants public servants the right to organize at the level of ministries and departments, the Government did not respond to ILO requests for specific information on the numbers and categories of civil servant employees covered or details regarding the collective bargaining agreements reached. There are three national joint councils representing management and professional civil servants, technical employees, and nontechnical workers. In June 2001 the Trade Unions Department received an application to register a federation of trade unions representing port workers. The Director General of Trade Unions rejected the application saying it did not fulfill the requirements of the Trade Unions Act. At year's end, MTUC ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: Three U.S. Airlines Get Code-Sharing Rights for Vietnam
In a March 2000 Memorandum of Discussion, the United States and Vietnam contemplated allowing code-sharing services between their countries. These services may be operated through arrangements between U.S. and third-country carriers, as in today's tentative decision, as well as between U.S. and Vietnamese airlines and between Vietnamese airlines and third-country carriers. Code sharing is a common airline industry practice in which one airline offers service in its own name to a particular destination, but some or all of the transportation is provided by another carrier which carries the designator code of the airline that sold the transportation. The March 2000 memorandum did not address direct service by U.S. and Vietnamese carriers with their own aircraft. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: Transportation Dept. to Award Vietnam Air Service Rights
In a March 2000 Memorandum of Discussion, the United States and Vietnam agreed to allow code-sharing services between their countries. These services could be operated through arrangements between U.S. and third-country carriers, as in today's tentative decision, as well as between U.S. and Vietnamese airlines and between Vietnamese airlines and third-country carriers. Code sharing is a common airline industry practice in which one airline offers service in its own name to a particular destination, but some or all of the transportation is provided by another carrier which carries the designator code of the airline that sold the transportation. The March 2000 memorandum did not address direct service by U.S. and Vietnamese carriers with their own aircraft. ... [Read More]
Embassy of the United States in Manila
What’s really the point of Open Skies? Bluntly speaking, its purpose is to get governments out of the business of making business decisions for airlines. Open Skies means that the airlines decide basic questions such as: How many flights a week should there be? What equipment should be used? What destinations should be served? These are questions for which, until recently, governments (even in the so-called developed world) provided the answers. What an unsettling notion to have governments, that struggle each day to just make sensible governmental decisions, making decisions in an area—business—where they lack all expertise. Our policy is that the market should provide the answers, and it is for the airline companies to determine what those answers mean for their ... [Read More]
Global Issues: Arresting Transnational Crime - U.S. and Multinational Coalition Disrupts Migrant Smuggling Operations
Since 1997 when Operation Global Reach was initiated, INS has trained more than 45,000 host country officials and airline personnel in fraudulent document detection and intercepted more than 74,000 fraudulently documented aliens attempting to transit these countries to the United States. ... Operation Firm Grip was a coordinated effort by INS working with host country law enforcement organizations and airline security officers to target global alien smugglers in Colombo, Sri Lanka; Mumbai and New Delhi, India; Bangkok, Thailand; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Singapore. ... [Read More]
F - East Asia Overview
The Malaysian Government passed legislation in 2002 that will allow the negotiation of mutual legal-assistance treaties with other countries. In addition, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia signed a counterterrorism agreement on 7 May— later joined by Thailand and Cambodia—that establishes a framework for cooperation and interoperability of the three nations’ procedures for handling border and security incidents. Twenty specific projects are detailed in the agreement, to include such measures as setting up hotlines, sharing airline passenger lists, and conducting joint training. ... [Read More]
F - East Asia Overview
In central Bangkok in early December, a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at a multistory building housing a ticketing office of the Israeli airline El Al, although police doubted the Israeli carrier was the intended target. There were no casualties. 2001 ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Byliner: INS Official on Efforts to Stop Migrant Smuggling
Since 1997 when Operation Global Reach was initiated, INS has trained more than 45,000 host country officials and airline personnel in fraudulent document detection and intercepted more than 74,000 fraudulently documented aliens attempting to transit these countries to the United States. ... -- Training foreign law enforcement and airline officials in identifying fraudulent documents; ... Operation Firm Grip was a coordinated effort by INS working with host country law enforcement organizations and airline security officers to target global alien smugglers in Colombo, Sri Lanka; Mumbai and New Delhi, India; Bangkok, Thailand; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Singapore. ... [Read More]
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