THE three-day auction of 76,000 pieces of Chinese export porcelain from the Ca Mau shipwreck at Sotheby’s in Amsterdam raised €3,046,716, more than double the pre-sale estimate.

Bird flu has killed again in Indonesia and is picking up speed elsewhere in Asia, with fresh outbreaks in Vietnam and a new human case reported in China, officials said today.

Thousands of poultry died of bird flu in the past two weeks in southern Vietnam, the government said today, in the country’s first reported outbreak in a year.

Rescuers searched today for around two dozen people still missing after a boat carrying some 150 passengers, mostly school students, capsized off the coast of southern Vietnam.

The confirmed death toll from a whirlwind that hit southern Vietnam early this week has risen to eight, an official said today.