World Cup hosts to help ASEAN<\/p>\n
MALAYSIA: Japan and South Korea will use lessons learned from
\nhosting the soccer World Cup to teach Southeast Asian countries
\nabout security for big events, an official said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Singapore will host a conference in August or September of the
\n10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
\nat which Japan and South Korea will discuss security problems
\nthey encountered at the May 31-June 30 World Cup finals and how
\nthey were overcome, said Tan Boon Huat, deputy secretary-general
\nof Singapore's Home Affairs Ministry.<\/p>\n
\"The focus will be on security preparations against
\nterrorism,\" Tan said on the sidelines of a meeting in Kuala
\nLumpur of ASEAN home ministers.<\/p>\n
The conference was agreed upon during a meeting of the ASEAN
\nRegional Forum officials in Brunei last week, Tan said. The forum
\nis a security group which joins ASEAN with other Asian countries,
\nthe United States, Europe and other nations.<\/p>\n
Tan said the Southeast Asian Games, the regional version of
\nthe Olympics, was one event which could be a potential target for
\nterrorist attacks. The last games took place in Kuala Lumpur on
\nSept. 11 last year, when terrorists flew jet liners into
\nbuildings in the United States, killing thousands. -- AP<\/p>\n
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\nAustralia-ETimor-visits
\nAustralian FM heads to ETimor, Thailand and Indonesia
\nJP\/12\/AUSTRALIA<\/p>\n
Downer to attend Australia-RI dialog<\/p>\n
AUSTRALIA: Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer began a
\nsix-day trip to Southeast Asia by joining thousands of guests at
\nTimor Lorosae's (East Timor's) independence celebrations on
\nSunday, before traveling to Thailand and Indonesia.<\/p>\n
After the celebrations in Dili, which he was attending with
\nPrime Minister John Howard, Downer will co-host the Coolum Forum
\nwith Thai Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai, in Phuket.<\/p>\n
He will also hold bilateral talks with a number of other Thai
\nministers on May 22 before meeting his Indonesian counterpart
\nHassan Wirayuda in Bogor, near Jakarta, for the inaugural
\nAustralia-Indonesia Dialogue on May 23 and 24.<\/p>\n
\"The dialogue will bring together a new generation of leaders
\nfrom Australia and Indonesia, including representatives from
\npolitics, business, academia and the media,\" he said.<\/p>\n
\"Its aim is to build enduring relationships and to provide
\nideas on how to strengthen bilateral relations.\"<\/p>\n
He will also meet other Indonesian ministers. -- AFP<\/p>\n
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\nCAMBODIA-ROUGE (PICTURE)
\nCambodia mourns Khmer Rouge victims on \"Day of Hate\"
\nJP\/12\/CAMBODIA<\/p>\n
Cambodians mourn Khmer Rouge victims<\/p>\n
CAMBODIA: More than 1,000 Cambodians gathered at a former Khmer
\nRouge execution ground on Sunday to mourn victims of the \"killing
\nfields\" regime as dark clouds hang over the future of a Cambodian
\ngenocide trial.<\/p>\n
Dozens of Buddhist monks chanted prayers as mourners old and
\nyoung gathered at the site, located 17 kilometers from Phnom
\nPenh, where the Khmer Rouge bludgeoned and shot to death some
\n17,000 people in the 1970s.<\/p>\n
The mourners came to lay offerings of incense sticks and
\nflowers at a memorial glass pagoda containing the skulls of 8,000
\nKhmer Rouge victims exhumed from mass graves in the area.<\/p>\n
The ceremony marks what Cambodians call the \"Day of Hate\",
\nagainst the 1975-1979 regime of Democratic Kampuchea, popularly
\nknown as the Khmer Rouge, during which thousands, perhaps
\nmillions, of people are estimated to have died from sporadic
\nbloody skirmishes with the Vietnamese military, disease,
\nstarvation, forced labor and execution. -- Reuters<\/p>\n
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\nPHILIPPINES-HOSTAGE
\nPhilippine troops clash with gang holding Korean
\nJP\/12\/ASEAN<\/p>\n
Troops kill suspected kidnappers<\/p>\n
PHILIPPINES: Philippine troops killed five suspected kidnappers
\nin a gunbattle on Sunday with Moro gunmen believed to be holding
\na South Korean hostage for more than three months, the military
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Other members of the kidnap gang escaped, taking Korean
\nbusinessman Jae Kwon-yoon with them during the hour-long clash in
\nthe mountains of Maitum, 80 km (50 miles) west of General Santos
\ncity, army area commander Colonel Alexander Yano said.<\/p>\n
There were no reports of government casualties.<\/p>\n
\"We received reports from villagers that the Korean hostage
\nwas with the group in Maitum,\" Yano said by telephone.<\/p>\n
\"Our forces did not see the Korean and we suspect that he was
\ntaken by the others, who escaped during the fighting.\"<\/p>\n
Yano said the group that clashed with his troops numbered
\nabout 35 gunmen. -- Reuters<\/p>",
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