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
;AP;KOD; ANPAu..r.. Aglance-Thailand-Murder Famous Thai doctor charged with killing wife JP/11/ASEAN
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. --AP
;AP;KOD; ANPAu..r.. Aglance-Vietnam-Poisoning 150 Vietnamese workers sickened by chemical in shoe factory, one JP/11/ASEAN
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
;AFP;KOD; ANPAu..r.. Aglance-Cambodia-weapons 100,000th weapon goes up in flames JP/11/ASEAN
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