he said the philippines will allow malaysia and indonesia into it's territorial waters to pursue abu seyad. members of the militant group are believed to be holding more than 10 captives. last year they kidnapped four foreigners. they have pledged allegiance to the islamic state militant group. >>> the vietnamese government on thursday proposed scrapping plans to build its first nuclear powerplants citing financial concerns. the state media quoted a top legislator saying the government should call off the project for being too costly. the governor had plans to start building its first plant in the summer of 2014 with the help of the russian state nuclear firm. and it had elected a japanese consortium to develop a second nuclear prant plant in the same province. in 2009 the legislation approved the construction of the plants which would have a combined capacity of 4,000 megawatts. the construction was delayed several times after the 2011 fukishima nuclear accident. the government stressed that it would take sufficient time to approve the plans and train the plant workers. >> eight pro democ