Portal:Southeast Asia/2006 August 18

The local media goes on a tour at the Home Team Academy, which will open officially on 2 September 2006 with an open house. (CNA)
Wat Pun On, a Buddhist chedi built more than 500 years ago, collapses during heavy rains in Chiang Mai. (TNA)
An Indonesian woman died of suspected bird flu in a village that has been hard hit by the disease, a hospital official said Friday, as health workers investigated a new possible cluster of the H5N1 virus. The virus has killed at least 140 people worldwide since 2003 — 45 of them in Indonesia, the world's worst affected country, according to the World Health Organization.(AP)
Israel object the presence of Indonesian and Malaysian military in the United Nations peacekeeping force for the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. (Reuters)