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...antidote or vaccine. By Saturday, when the sudden spread of a mysterious strain of "atypical" pneumonia called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to issue an emergency travel advisory for parts of Asia, hundreds of cases had been reported in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Singapore's Ministry of Health issued an urgent advisory warning its citizens to avoid travel to China's Guangdong province, Hanoi and Hong Kong, the first areas in which the disease surfaced, "unless absolutely necessary." Taiwan followed suit. Thailand's Health Ministry said it would...
...NOTEBOOK Indonesia: Security Forces Feud Milestones...
...Indonesia's police and military forces should be working together to subdue insurgencies, combat crime and crack down on terrorism. Last week, however, for the 15th time in the last two years, they battled each other. Some 60 air force personnel attacked a police station in East Jakarta, killing one policeman and wounding two others as they ransacked the office...
...NOTEBOOK Indonesia: Security Forces Feud Milestones...
...jurisdiction, influence and the extra income they earn through unofficial?and sometimes illegal?sidelines. (Military and police officers have been accused of involvement in unlicensed logging, prostitution and drug dealing.) "Many military personnel," says Peter van Tuijl, an adviser on police reform for the Partnership for Governance Reform in Indonesia, "cannot accept being told what to do by the police." Last week's attacks suggest they haven't faced off for the last time...