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...Israel, where more than 500 people have died in suicide bombings in the past five years, describe Britain's Forensic Science Service as the world's best. Scotland Yard's officers have also been gathering experience. After last year's Indian Ocean tsunami, the Yard sent officers to Thailand to help match information about British victims. Others traveled to New York City to observe mass casualty identification procedures after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. There is a protocol to such tasks. Standard international procedures begin by designating the mortuary site and forming an Identification Commission. In the London case...
...critics who say this is a diversion from CNOOC's previous strategy of bringing liquefied natural gas back to China and shipping it into booming markets on the coast and inland. After all, most of the gas Unocal owns in Asia is already under contract in countries like Thailand and Bangladesh, so it can't be exported back for use in China. Fu: This is in no way a diversion. There is potential for gas in the undeveloped properties Unocal has in Indonesia, for example. Second, the other gas businesses there are good assets and we would continue...
...Reilly, however, was not dissuaded. He wanted to expand Chevron's footprint in Asia. Unocal owns valuable production and distribution facilities and has a stake in oil and gas reserves in Thailand, Indonesia and Burma. On Feb. 7, Williamson told O'Reilly that he had been approached by others?Italy's Eni, a partly state-owned oil and gas company, had also expressed interest at this point?and that Unocal's board would evaluate any and all offers. That's what O'Reilly had wanted to hear: Unocal was now officially in play...
...EVICTED. 6,500 HMONG REFUGEES, as part of a Thai government plan to force them to return to their native Laos; from their villages in Phetchabun province in Thailand. The Hmong, more than 300,000 of whom fled neighboring Laos when the Communists came to power in 1975, are seen as illegal immigrants by Thai authorities, who suspect them of drug trafficking. The Hmong refugees spent 36 hours without shelter, leading to the death of a 2-month-old girl; doctors say they have been instructed to stop providing medical care to the Hmong, and vendors claim to have been...
...Weight of the largest catfish on record, caught by fishermen in northern Thailand's Mekong River and eaten...