Tuesday, 17 August 2010

News in Pics

Scott Weidie, with the Multinational Planning Augmentation Team from Honolulu, Hawaii, speaks at the opening of the Southeast Asia Regional Multisectoral Pandemic Preparedness and Respond Table Top Exercise, in Phom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

ASEAN's Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan speaks during a meeting in Phnom Penh August 16, 2010. ASEAN, the United Nations and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday hosted a pandemic preparedness and response exercise focusing on managing the impacts of severe pandemics on societies, governments and organisations in the Southeast Asian region, according to an ASEAN news release. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

ASEAN's Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan shakes hands with Cambodia's Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong while talking to reporters after a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Phnom Penh August 16, 2010. Hor told reporters on Monday peaceful means would be used to resolve the border dispute with neighbouring Thailand, despite having stopped bilateral talks. He also said Cambodia has asked Vietnam, the current Chair of ASEAN, to mediate the dispute between the two countries. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

ASEAN's Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan (L) shakes hands with Cambodia's Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong after a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Phnom Penh August 16, 2010. Hor told reporters on Monday peaceful means would be used to resolve the border dispute with neighbouring Thailand, despite having stopped bilateral talks. He also said Cambodia has asked Vietnam, the current Chair of ASEAN, to mediate the dispute between the two countries. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

ASEAN's Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan (L) walks with Cambodia's Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong after a meeting at the Ministry of ForeignAffairs in Phnom Penh August 16, 2010. Hor told reporters on Monday peaceful means would be used to resolve the border dispute with neighbouring Thailand, despite having stopped bilateral talks. He also said Cambodia has asked Vietnam, the current Chair of ASEAN, to mediate the dispute between the two countries. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

Cambodian women wait to obtain medical treatment for their children at Kuntha Bophar III hospital in Phnom Penh August 16, 2010. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

One-year-old Smara Reach cries as his mother Chea Neag holds him while they wait to obtain medical treatment at Kuntha Bophar III hospital in Phnom Penh August 16, 2010. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

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