11.   Premier Zhu Rongji, on a visit to the dam site in December, called for introducing a strict engineering quality system.

12.   Rescuers sifted through tons of mud and muck Friday searching for victims of a massive landslide that tore through a dam construction site.

13.   Rescuers sifted through tons of mud and muck searching for victims of a massive landslide that tore through a dam construction site Friday.

14.   Survivors have said hundreds of Muslims were executed at the dam site, then their bodies driven away for mass burial at another location nearby.

15.   The dam site contains archaeological remains which, under Israeli law, must be excavated before construction can begin.

16.   Whether or not the thousands of farmers converging at the dam site will move to Bangkok depends on results of the crucial weekend negotiations, protest leaders said.

17.   However, suspected MILF guerrillas attacked a nearby government militia detachment near Mlang town which adjoins the dam site last Friday, killing two militiamen, police said.

18.   An informal ceasefire is supposed to be in place, with troops guarding the dam site, but sporadic clashes still occur.

19.   Army spokesman Lieutenant Noel Detoyato said the MILF planned to seize the dam project site and use it as leverage in the planned peace talks.

20.   As a gesture of goodwill, the MILF also agreed to return two firearms taken from two policemen killed at the dam site in January.