Crew blamed for ferry tragedy<\/p>\n
PHILIPPINES: Rescuers searched rough seas off the Philippine
\ncapital on Monday for survivors of a ferry collision that claimed
\nat least 28 lives, as officials blamed crew incompetence for the
\naccident.<\/p>\n
Naval and coastguard ships and military helicopters were
\npursuing the search at the mouth of Manila Bay, while marine
\ndivers searched underwater for bodies from the San Nicholas
\nferry, said Defense Secretary Angelo Reyes.<\/p>\n
A coastguard spokesman said no new survivors nor bodies had
\nbeen found by mid-afternoon.<\/p>\n
The small, wood-hulled San Nicolas was sunk after it crashed
\ninto the port-side of the much larger Super Ferry 12 on Sunday
\nmorning, Reyes said on local television.<\/p>\n
Rescuers saved more than 200 people, while the larger ship,
\nwith 1,400 people on board, returned to port without casualties
\nor serious damage. -- AFP<\/p>\n
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\nAglance-Thailand-Cambodia
\nSecurity tight for joint Cabinet meet
\nJP\/11\/ASEAN<\/p>\n
Security tight for joint Cabinet meet<\/p>\n
THAILAND: Security will be tight at a forthcoming joint Cabinet
\nmeeting between Thailand and Cambodia after a threat against Thai
\nPrime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was revealed last week, a Thai
\nofficial said on Monday.<\/p>\n
The Saturday meeting is to be split between a morning session
\nin Siem Reap, the gateway town to Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat
\ntemple complex, and an afternoon session in northeastern
\nThailand's Ubon Ratchatani.<\/p>\n
Thailand has already provided Cambodia with bomb detection and
\nother security equipment, a Thai intelligence official said.<\/p>\n
Cambodia will be the third country with which Thailand has
\nheld a joint Cabinet meeting, following Singapore and Malaysia,
\nin an initiative by Thaksin Shinawatra aimed at boosting
\nrelations with neighbors.<\/p>\n
The meeting was slated for March, but was postponed after
\nanti-Thai riots in Phnom Penh in January. -- AFP<\/p>\n
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\nAglance-Malaysia-haze
\nKuala Lumpur hazed over
\nJP\/11\/ASEAN<\/p>\n
Kuala Lumpur hazed over<\/p>\n
MALAYSIA: Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur was shrouded on Monday
\nin a smoky blanket of haze caused by a prolonged dry spell, as
\nwell as smoke from forest fires in Indonesia, environmental
\nofficers said.<\/p>\n
Visibility levels in Sepang district, where Kuala Lumpur
\nInternational Airport is located, were dangerously low at 6
\nkilometers, a spokesman for the Meteorological Department said.<\/p>\n
Normal visibility levels are at 10 kilometers, she said,
\nadding, \"This happens every year, and it comes with a natural
\nweather change.\"<\/p>\n
Satellite imaging by the Department of Environment (DOE) had
\nearlier in the day detected 38 hot spots -- areas showing high
\nlevels of heat -- on Sumatra and 16 on Borneo island. -- DPA<\/p>\n
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\nAglance-Cambodia-AIDS
\nCambodian operas to fight AIDS
\nJP\/11\/ASEAN<\/p>\n
Cambodian operas to fight AIDS<\/p>\n
CAMBODIA: Phnom Penh launched a daring soap opera about star-
\ncrossed lovers, sex workers and HIV on Monday -- the latest
\nweapon in its fight to contain the deadly AIDS virus.<\/p>\n
An estimated 158,000 people, or 2.6 percent of adults, are
\nHIV-positive in the war-scarred nation.<\/p>\n
Although not on the scale of sub-Saharan Africa, many fear
\nthat if left unchecked, AIDS could wreak as much damage as the
\n\"Killing Fields\" genocide of the Khmer Rouge.<\/p>\n
After a condom campaign that targeted Cambodia's rampant sex
\nindustry, AIDS campaigners are now shifting their focus to
\nfamilies, to try and prevent the many thousands of husbands who
\nregularly visit sex workers from passing HIV\/AIDS on to their
\nwives. -- Reuters<\/p>",
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