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Saturday, March, 3 2007 |
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Fight vs. bird flu
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HANOI: Bird flu is on the march again across Asia as winter ends,
but the battle against the killer virus is being hobbled by stark
differences between the region’s diverse countries, health experts
warn.
While Vietnam and Thailand have
been hailed as poster adverts in the fight against avian influenza,
new cases in hotspot Indonesia and population giant China have
highlighted concerns the disease will be hard to stamp out.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Asean ministers
meet on bloc’s charter
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SIEM REAP, Cambodia: Asean
foreign ministers met here Friday looking to iron out the details
for the 40-year-old group’s first charter, which officials hope to
put in place later this year.
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Iraq vital front
to war on terrorism
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WASHINGTON: US Vice-President
Dick Cheney told Democrats Thursday to stop “posturing” on Iraq,
warning it was an “inconvenient truth” that the bloody conflict
was the key front in the war on terror.
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Two Koreas to
restart family reunions this month
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SEOUL: North and South Korea
announced Friday they would resume reunions for families separated
since their 1950 to 1953 conflict, in one of a series of steps to
improve relations chilled ...
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inBRIEF
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HANOI, Vietnam:
Authorities here said bird flu had struck a flock of ducks in the
Mekong delta, just a day after the country lifted a ban on hatching
waterfowl that was imposed in 2005.
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