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6 Myanmar troops killed:
At Myanmar soldiers were killed In lighting over the weekend when they recaptured a former base from Karent ethnic minority forces, Thal military sources said today. Reuter reports Thailand.
The sources said 600 Myanmar soldiers launched an attack early on Saturday on Pong Lao camp in a remote area of Kayah state and retook it from the Kareni after four hours of fighting.
Nine Myanmar porters pressed into service by the army fled across the border to Thailand during the battle.
The sources said the porters told them that they saw at least six soldiers killed in the fighting. '
Mubarak opens tourism confce:
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak opened a world tourism conference here Monday, saying it would "boost peace, security and stability in the region." AFP reports from Cairo.
The 62nd world travel congress is organised by the American Travel Agents’ Association, and will last five days, bringing together more than 5,000 delegates from 125 countries.
Burdened by debt. Egypt depends on tourism — along with the Suze canal, oil exports and repatriated earnings — for Its foreign currency earnings.
The 1991 Gulf war severely depressed tourism revenues, but over the past year the country has notched up a record three million visits and earned an estimated three billion dol-
Tourism Minister Fuad Sultan took up Mubarak's theme, saying extremism and "deplorable Incidents" might have held back economic development in the Middle East but that Egypt had adopted a firm stand against extremism.
Singapore govt bans novel:
ihe^ nment has canned a novel written and published in Singapore after receiving complaints It was obscene, and the police have been asked to Investigate its publication. AP reports from Singapore.
Coxies of "Harlots: A Personal Sex History” have been confiscated. the Ministry of Information and.the Arts announced Monday.
The ministry said in a statement its officers "have gone through the book and found it to be exploitative and objectionable. A book with similar contents published overseas would not have been allowed Into Singapore."
Although locally published books are not required to obtain the ministry's prior approval, the publication, distribution or sale of obscene books is an offense under the law. It added.
Written by Straits Times News Editor Felix Soh under the pen name Y-Ming, it tells of the misadventures of a character who has sex with many women but finds only unhappiness.
18 killed in Colombia clashes:
poh ce on Monday said 15 guerillas and three police officers were killed In weekend clashes around Colombia, Reuter reports from Colombia.
National Liberation Army guerillas invaded the small village of Socota. 220 km (130 miles) northeast of Bogota in the early hours of Monday, killing three police and wounding four others.
Two guerillas died in a police counterattack and the rest fled after kidnapping a doctor and two nurses.
Another 13 guerillas were killed by security forces during the weekend in various clashes in the provinces of Antioquia. Cordoba. Cundinamarca and Meta, police said.
The clashes came In the wake of a government decision to suspend peace talks with the rebels until they stopped their attacks A further round of talks had been planned for the end of October.