Mahathir dares S'pore on water pact<\/p>\n
MALAYSIA: Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday dared
\nSingapore to terminate a water purchase agreement immediately and
\nnot wait for it to lapse in 2011.<\/p>\n
In the latest tit-for-tat exchange on the issue, the premier
\nsaid Malaysia was merely doing its neighbor a favor by supplying
\nit with water and that it was unfair that the price had not
\nchanged since 1927.<\/p>\n
\"They want to remove, it's alright. It can stop even now, no
\nneed to wait until 2011,\" Mahathir told reporters in response to
\nreports that Singapore wanted to let one of the agreements lapse.<\/p>\n
\"The price should be fair, it doesn't make sense that the
\nprice has remained unchanged for 75 years,\" he said.<\/p>\n
\"We do not want to sell water to them. We are losing money
\nselling to them. We do not depend on them as sources of income to
\nfinance the government. We are doing them a favor.\" --AFP<\/p>\n
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\nAglance-Vietnam-drugs
\nVietnam's commercial hub struggling to cope with drug addicts
\nJP\/11\/ASEAN<\/p>\n
City to cope with drug addicts<\/p>\n
VIETNAM: Ho Chi Minh City authorities said on Tuesday more
\ndetoxification centers in Vietnam's southern metropolis were
\nurgently needed to cope with mass overcrowding and a surge in
\ndrug addicts.<\/p>\n
Nguyen Thanh Tai, vice chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City
\nPeople's Committee, has ordered the city's social affairs
\ndepartment to speed up construction of detox centers, a local
\ngovernment official said on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n
In 2000, hundreds of recovering addicts staged a mass breakout
\nfrom a Ho Chi Minh City detox center in protest at overcrowding,
\nwhile last year staff at a private clinic were suspended after a
\nseries of suspicious deaths.<\/p>\n
Nationwide, a total of 8,196 addicts are waiting to be
\ninterned in detox centers for rehabilitation, with 19,008 people
\nalready in detention as of Aug. 2, official statistics show.
\n--AFP<\/p>\n
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\nAglance-RP-Malaysia
\nPhilippines deplores \"inhuman\" deportation of Filipinos from Mala
\nJP\/11\/ASEAN<\/p>\n
RP deplores 'inhuman' deportation<\/p>\n
PHILIPPINES: Philippine senators on Tuesday demanded a diplomatic
\nprotest against Kuala Lumpur for what they called the inhuman
\ntreatment of some 120 Filipinos deported from the eastern
\nMalaysian state of Sabah.<\/p>\n
Senate president Franklin Drilon said he had received a report
\nthat the Filipinos, 60 of them children, were forcibly sent home
\naboard a fishing vessel designed only to carry 30 passengers.<\/p>\n
It was not clear when the Filipinos were shipped out of
\nMalaysia, but a Philippine coastguard vessel said it picked them
\nup off the Tawi-Tawi island group near the common sea border with
\nMalaysia and brought them to the nearby port of Zamboanga late
\nMonday.<\/p>\n
\"This is not the proper way to treat human beings, even if
\nthey were overstaying aliens. As civilized nations, we are
\nobliged by international standards on human rights to respect the
\ndignity of individuals,\" Drilon said. --AFP<\/p>\n
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\nAglance-S'pore-Muslim
\nSingapore website aims to dispel misconceptions about Islam
\nJP\/11\/ASEAN<\/p>\n
Website to dispel misconceptions<\/p>\n
SINGAPORE: An Islamic website first launched seven years ago has
\nundergone a revamp with the aim of defending the faith from
\nmisconceptions, its developer said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The relaunch of KampungNet also seeks to provide a channel for
\nthe majority of Singapore's Muslims to voice their views on
\nissues regarding their faith.<\/p>\n
Most Singaporean Muslims stayed silent when their religion
\nbecame the subject of intense discussion after the December
\narrest of suspected Muslim militants and the government's ban on
\ngirls wearing Islamic headscarves in schools.<\/p>\n
Mindful of devastating racial riots in the 1960s, the mainly-
\nChinese Southeast Asian state places top priority on maintaining
\nharmony among its diverse ethnic groups, which include Muslim
\nMalays and Indians. --AFP<\/p>",
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