Southeast Asia – Vietnamese, Thai PM hold high-level talks (Vietnam Net)

Vietnamese, Thai PM hold high-level talks (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge Vietnam and Thailand have agreed to promote bilateral friendship and all-round cooperation, especially in economics, investment, trade, culture, education-training, health care, science-technology and tourism.

Thailand wants to bolster co-operation with Vietnam (Nh n D n)
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva affirmed his wish to bolster co-operation with Vietnam in economy, security, education, transport and agriculture.

Myanmar ophans flee to uncertain refuge in Thailand (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A sudden offensive against ethnic Karen rebels by Myanmar’s military junta has caused what aid groups say is the biggest exodus of refugees from Myanmar since 1997, with some 4,000 people fleeing for safety since the start of June.

Italian worker freed in Philippines MANILA, Philippines (AP) Al-Qaida-linked militants freed an ailing Italian (The Nashua Telegraph)
Red Cross worker Sunday from six months of jungle captivity in the southern Philippines, officials said. …

Vietnam vet calls for investigation (BigPond News)
A vietnam veteran has accused his fellow soldiers of blowing up the bodies of Viet Cong.

Thai probe shows tiger parts came from Malaysia (The Star)
PETALING JAYA: Investigations by Thai wildlife authorities have confirmed that some of the tiger parts confiscated in Thailand last year belonged to the Malayan tiger, a specie found only in Peninsula Malay-sia.

Thai PM visits Vietnam to talk global crisis (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
The prime ministers of Thailand and Vietnam, which are important trading partners, met Friday to discuss how to address the global economic crisis, a spokesman said.

Quake hits Indonesia’s Papua (Straits Times)
JAKARTA – A 5.7-MAGNITUDE quake hit Indonesia’s remote Papua province Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of any casualties or damage. The quake struck at 9:58 am (1058 Singapore time) with an epicentre 156 kilometres southeast of the West Papua district of Kaimana, the Jakarta Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said.

Guard for US miner Freeport shot dead in Indonesia (AP via Yahoo! News)
Gunmen killed a security guard working for U.S. mining conglomerate Freeport on Sunday, then ambushed police responding to the attack blamed on separatist rebels in one of Indonesia’s most underdeveloped and remote regions.

Vietnam vet accuses diggers (Sky News Australia)
Australia’s military history has been questioned, with a Vietnam veteran accusing fellow soldiers of wartime atrocities.

Vietnam and Thailand vow to deepen ties (Nh n D n)
The Vietnamese and Thai Prime Ministers renewed their determination to further deepen the already warm relations between the two countries and effectively expand their wide-ranging co-operation in the coming time.

Singapore Probably Emerged From Recession on Production Gains (Bloomberg)
July 13 (Bloomberg) — Singapore s economy probably expanded for the first time in five quarters as a rebound in manufacturing helped the Southeast Asian nation emerge from its worst recession since independence in 1965.

Officials say shooting breaks out near Papua mine (AP via Yahoo! News)
Shooting broke out Sunday between Indonesian security forces and suspected rebels in Papua, near to where an Australian employee of the U.S. mining giant Freeport was killed a day earlier, police and company officials said.

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