Confab opens to discuss tsunami early warning system

Confab opens to discuss tsunami early warning system

PHUKET, Thailand - Senior officials from Indian Ocean Rim countries and technologically advanced countries including the United States and Japan and another 13 international organizations pose at the beginning a conference on creating a regional early warning system in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia in Phuket on Jan. 28.

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