PHNOM PENH - A CAMBODIAN soldier was killed and two civilians were injured in a landmine blast near a disputed part of the border with Thailand, the military said on Sunday.

The incident happened on Saturday around 20 kilometres (12 miles) from an 11th century temple at the centre of a sometimes bloody territorial dispute between the two countries.

BANTAR GEBANG - FORMER Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri and her running mate, notorious former military general Prabowo Subianto, made their presidential bid declaration at a rubbish tip on Sunday.

They addressed an estimated 50,000 supporters, most wearing the party's red, crowded into a one-hectare lot amid the stench of rubbish at a waste disposal site on the outskirts of Jakarta.

HANOI (Vietnam) - FOREIGN ministers from Asia and Europe meet in Vietnam on Monday to discuss the global economic slowdown, but Myanmar's trial of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is also likely to grab attention.

Representatives of 45 nations - including at least 30 foreign ministers - are to attend the two-day meeting in Hanoi of the European Union, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, China, Japan, South Korea, India and Pakistan.