For the last 4 days, some 4,000 people representing 19 countries have been involved in disaster relief exercises in Northern Malaysia. The drill rehearsed the response to a simulated super-typhoon. This year\'s ASEAN Regional Forum disaster relief exercises were co-organized by Malaysia and China.
28 vessels, four helicopters and personnel from Malaysia, China, Thailand and India took part in these maritime search and rescue exercises off Malaysia’s West Coast.\"These exercises have provided practical training for these countries to cooperate together to combat natural disasters and emergencies in futue, and I think this event also provided a very beneficial opportunity to train our professionals,\" Dou Yupei, deputy
minister of China Civil Affairs, said. |
