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167 children hospitalised in C Java: Some 167 primary school children have been hospitalised in Central Java after a eating bean porridge, provided as part of a state food supplementary programme, a report said Tuesday. AFP reports from Jakarta.
The head of the health office in the Central Java town of Banyumas. Mambodiyanto. said the students were recovering but needed a few more days of rest, according to the Jakarta Post daily. Witnesses said the children of the Pamijen Elementary School started vomiting shortly after eatjng the porridge, prepared by the wife of the Village secretary arm two other women, the Post reported.
18 boatpeople held in Vietnam: Hong Kong police have arrested 18 suspected illegal Immigrants from Vietnam after a dragnet by land, sea and air prompted by claims that hundreds had Jumped off a ship in the territory, police said yesterday, Reuter reports from Hong Kong.
Police said they captured the 18 boatpeople on Lantau Island. Those detained told police they had been dropped off by a freighter on Sunday night off Lantau. the territory's largest island, and had claimed that 600 illegal immigrants were on board. However, a police spokeswoman said police had called off the large-scale search late on Monday and were now probing whether the detainees had hoaxed them.
2 die as train hits car in Italy: two I people were killed and one was seriously injured Monday evening when a train hit their Carona level crossing at Castrocielo. 70 kilometres (45 miles) south of Rome, police said, AFP reports from Rome.
First reports suggested that the barriers had been raised too soon after an express train bound for Rome had gone through. Two cars had started crossing the lines as another train from Cassino to Rome was approaching at full speed. The first car managed to get across but the one behind was hit and pushed for 200 metres before the train had .time to brake.
Teenager gets 14-yrs jail in S'pore:
A Singapore court has sentenced a 16-year-old youth to 14 years in jail and 24 strokes of the cane for trafficking in cannabis, the Straits Times newspaper reported yesterday. Reuter says from Singapore.
It said the court jailed a 37-year-old woman who is eight months pregnant for 14 years on the same charges. The two were accused of trafficking a total of some 920 grammes of cannabis mixture and the newspaper said the youth, Alan Loo Pei Xiang, was given another year for consuming ecstasy. It said Loo planned to appeal against the sentences.
Gunmen kill 6 in Mexico: Four armed I men burst into an exclusive restaurant in this town on the US border and sprayed six diners with more than 150 bullets, state police said Monday, AFP reports from Ciudad Juarez.
Unconfirmed reports said among the victims of the attack late Sunday were two informants for the US Drug Enforcement Administration and a US citizen. The head guard at the local Erison Fernando Lague was listed among the six victims con-rmed dead in the attack, police said.
China appoints 11 new envoys:
Chinese President Jiang Zemin has appointed 11 new ambassadors for nations ranging from Singapore to the Seychelles, the official Xinhua news agency said yesterday, AFP reports from Beijing.
Of the 11, only one was female — Chen Baoliu, who was appointed to Singapore from her previous post as Chinese ambassador to Myanmar. The other 10 were Liang Dong to Myanmar, Fu Xuezhang to Thailand. Yao Kangi to Turkey. Zhang Hongxi to Tanzania, Chen Huailong to Equatorial Guinea, Wang Xingshi to Sychelles. Li Guobang to Croatia, Wu Junfeng to Slovenia. Wang Xinyuan to Samoa and Wen Xigui to Bosnia-Herzegovina.