Life & Culture -- October 27, 2005

• All passengers, crew safe from Thai plane accident in Melbourne
• China able to prevent bird flu from spreading: Premier
• Chinese official calls for greater efforts to control bird flu
• Egypt to release final draft report on Flash air crash
• Europeans advised to keep bird flu away

• Indian Health Minister: no bird flu but precaution gears
• Int'l meeting to be held on priorities for bird flu control
• Megawati in hospital with suspected dengue fever: report
• Monks teach, practice tolerance for HIV-AIDS victims
• Traditional Chinese medicine to take FDA's test of curative effect by Synarc

• UN official: reproductive health key to poverty reduction