31.   Rescuers searched the Straits of Malacca for survivors and bodies Saturday after a crowded boat capsized on its way from Indonesia to Malaysia, a maritime official said.

32.   Swedish maritime officials began their own investigation Friday into the cause of the accident.

33.   South Korea has almost finished building a wharf among a cluster of islets also claimed by Japan, maritime officials said Wednesday.

34.   The maritime official said a search has been launched for three missing men, including two Indonesians.

35.   The South Korean news agency Yonhap quoted an unidentified maritime official as saying North Korea canceled the plan once it was publicized.

36.   France on Saturday sank a dilapidated and derelict garbage vessel in the Atlantic off the coast of Brittany, maritime officials said.

37.   A helicopter and two rescue ships were combing the coast for signs of the missing sailor, maritime officials said.

38.   A maritime official said a unit from Guangdong was in charge of the search-and-rescue operation, as the accident happened in Chinese waters.

39.   A trawler sank in the English Channel early Wednesday after being in collision with a freighter, maritime officials said at Cape Gris-Nez near here.

40.   But Beijing denied Thursday that its maritime officials carried out inspections of the boats.