KL, Thailand to adopt plan for Thai south<\/p>\n
MALAYSIA: Malaysia and Thailand will this week endorse a program
\nto develop Thailand's Muslim-majority southern provinces, wracked
\nby unrest that has killed around 250 people this year, a report
\nsaid on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar and his Thai
\ncounterpart Surakiart Sathirathai will discuss the program in
\nBangkok on Thursday, the Sunday Star newspaper said.<\/p>\n
Largely Buddhist Thailand called in Muslim Malaysia, which
\nborders the troubled Thai provinces, to help draw up a
\ndevelopment blueprint for its Muslim areas in a bid to try to
\nstem simmering unrest that ignited in January.<\/p>\n
The blueprint includes plans for Malaysian vocational training
\nof youths in southern Thailand and building trust between the
\ngovernment and locals in order to fight militancy, Syed Hamid
\nsaid in the newspaper report.<\/p>\n
It also covers the development of Islamic banking and tourism
\nin the southern provinces with cooperation between Bangkok and
\nKuala Lumpur, the minister said. --AFP<\/p>",
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