Bomb scare at KL int'l school

Bomb scare at KL int'l school

MALAYSIA: Hundreds of students were evacuated from an
international school in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on
Monday after a bomb threat, a school spokeswoman said.

A police bomb squad was searching the school, marketing
director for the International School Kuala Lumpur (ISKL), Hilda
Al Poosilva said.

The bomb threat was made in a telephone call to the school, in
the upmarket Ampang area, around mid-morning, she said.

All students were evacuated immediately and classes were
canceled for the day.

ISKL has 750 students from 40 countries, the spokeswoman said.

Several Western countries have urged their citizens in
Malaysia to be on a heightened state of alert after a bombing
killed nearly 200 people in neighboring Indonesia's resort island
of Bali on Oct. 12. --AFP

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Famous Thai doctor charged with killing wife
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Doctor charged with killing wife

THAILAND: Thai prosecutors on Monday revived murder charges that
had been dropped against a renowned Thai gynecologist accused of
killing his wife, cutting up the body and dumping the pieces in
cesspools.

The Bangkok Criminal Court accepted the charges against Dr.
Wisuth Boonkasemsanti and set a hearing for Nov. 1, court
secretary Pris Piyanarathorn said. If found guilty, Wisuth faces
the death penalty.

After dominating headlines for weeks last year, the case
against Wisuth fizzled out when prosecutors dropped charges,
saying there was no body to prove murder. The decision outraged
the victim's family and many Bangkok residents.

After a new investigation, prosecutors announced last month
that a DNA test had shown that flesh pieces found in cesspools
were the remains of Wisuth's wife, Dr. Phassaporn Boonkasemsanti.
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150 Vietnamese workers sickened by chemical in shoe factory, one
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one dies, 150 sickened by chemical

VIETNAM: More than 150 workers were hospitalized and one later
died after a chemical preservative was sprayed in a shoe factory
in southern Vietnam, a company official said on Monday.

Hundreds of workers at the Nam Kang Shoe Factory, which
produces shoes for a Taiwanese company, were allowed to go home
early Friday after complaining of a noxious smell, said the
official, who identified himself only as Binh and would not
disclose the company's name.

The chemical formaldehyde - widely used as a preservative,
sterilizer and embalming fluid - had been sprayed in a storage
area earlier in the day to prevent leather from molding, he said.

One female worker, who had recently suffered from severe
hepatitis, was hospitalized Friday night for breathing problems
and died the next day, he said.

Workers returned on Saturday to the factory, in Binh Duong
province, but began experiencing headaches, eye irritation and
vomiting, and about a dozen fainted, Binh said. --AP

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100,000th weapon goes up in flames
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100,000th weapon goes up in flames

CAMBODIA: Phnom Penh destroyed its 100,000th weapon on Monday in
a fiery ceremony as part of European Union program aimed at
curbing the number of small and light arms in this country.

Some 3,458 weapons were destroyed at the latest Flame of Peace
ceremony in north west Battambang in a ceremony which, according
to project manager David de Beer, displayed the government's
commitment to reform.

The weapons have been destroyed in a series of bonfires since
the destruction program began in May 1999, a year after nearly 30
years of war officially ended.

De beer said in a statement that the weapons had been
confiscated by police, handed over voluntarily or been declared
surplus to requirements by the military. --AFP