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SINGAPORE: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on
Sunday he will go ahead with a meeting in Bali with Indonesian
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono despite the deadly weekend
attack in the resort island.

Their scheduled two-day "retreat" starting on Monday will
cover regional issues and bilateral relations, a statement from
the prime minister's office said.

"We have to carry on with the retreat. I have been in touch
with Yudhoyono's people, staff and they agree we have to
continue," national broadcaster Channel News Asia's website
quoted Lee as saying.

"To change our plans and not to meet is really to concede (to
terrorists). We will go and continue with the retreat and take
the necessary precautions and I am looking forward to meeting the
president," the prime minister added.

Lee will be accompanied by his wife Ho Ching, who is the chief
executive of state-linked investment firm Temasek Holdings,
cabinet ministers and other senior officials.

Singapore is one of the biggest foreign investors in Indonesia
and relations have improved markedly in recent years. -- AFP

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British consulate in Hong Kong sends rapid-response team to Bali
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Britain sends
rapid-response team

HONG KONG: The British consulate in Hong Kong said on Sunday it
has sent a rapid-response team to Bali to help British nationals
caught up in Saturday's bombings.

The consulate also set up a hotline - Hong Kong 2901 3077 -
for friends and relatives of British people who were in Bali at
the time of the terrorist attacks.

At least three Hong Kong tour groups were in Bali at the time
of the explosions but there were no reports on Sunday morning of
any casualties from the former British colony.

Britain's ambassador in Indonesia, Charles Humfrey, would be
also sent to Bali. -- Agencies

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Four of six South Koreans wounded in Bali blast to head home
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Injured S. Koreans
to head home

INDONESIA: Four of the six South Koreans wounded in the latest
series of bomb blasts on the Indonesian resort island of Bali are
to be repatriated, a travel agent said on Sunday.

"From the six, four will be evacuated," said Tommy Soetrisno,
travel operation director of PD Tour which brought the group to
Bali.

Soetrisno told AFP at the hospital that the four will be flown
back to South Korea for further treatment there. All six were
women, he said.

The two remaining South Koreans included one woman who is due
to undergo surgery to treat an injured bladder, and another who
wanted to keep her company, he said.

"The hospital has already confirmed that there are not too
many problems for this (the repatriation)," he added.

A nurse caring for the six Koreans, Hilvana, said that any
patient allowed to be evacuated has to be able to sustain seven
straight hours of travel.

"The doctors are very strict about this, and if there are
indications that they will not be able to stand seven hours of
travel, the permit for them to leave would not be given," Hilvana
said.

Soetrisno said that the travel company, which brings about 500
South Korean visitors to Bali every year, will bear the whole
cost of the repatriation.

He said that the six were part of a group of 18 South Koreans
who had opted to dine at Jimbaran that evening, while the others
decided to go somewhere closer to their hotel. -- AFP

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Berlin says two Germans injured in Bali blasts
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Two Germans injured
in Bali blasts

GERMANY: Two Germans suffered slight injuries in the Bali blasts,
the German Foreign Office said in Berlin on Sunday.

A spokeswoman said there was no information to suggest any
Germans were among the dead.

The German government earlier condemned Saturday's terrorist
bombings in Bali and appealed for the culprits to be brought to
justice. Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer on Saturday described
the attacks as contemptuous of humanity.

"The background to the attacks must be illuminated, and those
responsible brought to justice," he said. "Indonesia can count on
German solidarity in the battle against international terrorism."
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Bali promotion to go ahead in New Zealand despite bombings
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Bali promotion
to go ahead in NZ

NEW ZEALAND: A group of Bali tourism operators visiting New
Zealand to seek business said on Sunday they want their
promotional tour to go ahead despite the latest deadly bombings
on the Indonesian resort island.

Eighteen representatives of Bali Village, a non-profit
organization representing almost 200 tourism-affiliated
industries on the island, are in Auckland as part of an
Australasian tour.

The group of mainly hoteliers and tour operators said the
bombings had forced a rethink of their planned presentation to
New Zealand tourism industry representatives.

Speaking through representative Maman Baboe, the group said
they were keen to push ahead with their scheduled meeting,
although in a revised format.

Baboe, who manages web portal indonz.com, said the group was
assessing its options.

About 1,500 New Zealanders travel to Indonesia each month,
mostly to Bali, but there have been no reports of New Zealanders
caught in Saturday's bombings which killed at least 26 people. --
AFP

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Australian health minister visits injured in Bali
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Aussie minister
visits injured

AUSTRALIA: Australian health minister Tony Abbott on Sunday
interrupted his holiday on the Indonesian island of Bali to visit
those hospitalized by three bomb blasts.

Abbott, a close colleague of Prime Minister John Howard, was
with his family in Bali when the bombs exploded on Saturday
night.

On Sunday he visited more than 12 Australians being treated at
a hospital on the resort island, ABC radio reported.
Abbott said the victims were dealing with the situation
courageously.

"Some them have been absolutely peppered with shrapnel, some
of them have serious burns," he said. "But all of them are
bearing up with as much fortitude as they can muster under the
circumstances."

Abbott praised the efforts of medics, including a doctor from
Newcastle, north of Sydney, who had volunteered to assist the
wounded.

"Dr Adam Frost, who was one of the group but who was not with
the party that was exposed to the bomb last night, has done an
absolutely herculean effort just assisting the injured and
rallying the uninjured," he said. -- AFP