1.  Caribbean heads of state will convene on Thursday in the Bahamas to coordinate a regional response to the emergency while tourism officials rethink their marketing campaigns.

2.  The Mid-America Regional Council has initiated a plan to buy new dispatch computers and create regional emergency response maps.

3.  This is, in short, a regional problem requiring a regional response.

4.  Fear that the Pacific will become an alternative to Asian brothel centers has prompted governments and child protection agencies to coordinate a regional response.

5.  The experts met in Taipei to discuss recommendations to APEC and called for a coordinated regional response to the crisis.

6.  The report concluded that ASEAN countries must not only take measures at the national level to deal with the crisis, but also forge a strong regional response.

7.  He said a common regional response was required to find solutions to the problem.

8.  He proposed setting up a system for consultations following urgent situations and establishing a mechanism for a prompt regional response to requests for urgent assistance.