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SCMP Reporter

Former South African president F W de Klerk, who shared a Nobel Peace Prize with successor Nelson Mandela for leading South Africa to democracy, said he was quitting politics.

  The National Party leader said he would use his retirement to pen his memoirs.

  The party will choose a new leader on September 9, the day Mr de Klerk retires.

  Mr Mandela said Mr de Klerk deserved an honourable place in history.

  Zhuhai police declared war against triads in Macau, drafting in an extra 110 officers to guard the frontier.

 Mainland triads are believed to be sneaking in to commit crimes and Macau triads are thought to flee over the border to escape justice.

  Officers from Guangdong's elite frontier defence Seven Squad will join security forces on the other side of the border in the first joint sea and land exercises against triads in Macau.

  Revelations of medical blunders continued when it was reported yesterday that a student nurse had connected a tube feeding milk to a patient's veins, not his stomach.

 The Hospital Authority has launched an investigation into clinical monitoring and professional accountability.

 Incidents included a blood transfusion mix-up, when a patient died after being given the wrong type of blood.

  In another incident, a girl's fallopian tube was removed instead of her appendix.

 Another blunder was revealed by a woman who has needles permanently stuck inside her face after a medical examination 19 years ago.

  About $3.6 million was to be given for district boards to spend on China National Day celebrations.

 Acting Secretary for Home Affairs Lee Lap-sun said a new, taller flagpole would be put up in front of the Convention and Exhibition Centre extension, so more people could see the flag- raising ceremony at 8 am on October 1.

  Tung Chee-hwa will host an afternoon banquet for about 5,000 guests, said Mr Lee.

  More track world records fell when Wilson Kipketer, a Kenyan-born Danish citizen, lowered his own 800-metre time and Bernard Barmasai of Kenya beat the 3,000-metre steeplechase mark.

  The records were shattered at the Cologne Grand Prix meet, two days after the 5,000 and 10,000 standards were improved in Brussels, Belgium, and less than two weeks after three records fell in Zurich, Switzerland.

  The United States has granted asylum to two senior North Korean diplomats.

 North Korea's mission in Paris earlier confirmed the defection of Pyongyang's ambassador to Cairo, Jang Sung-gil and his brother, Jang Sung-ho, a trade representative in Paris.

  Mehgan Heaney-Grier, 20, broke her personal women's free-diving record by descending - on a single breath of air - to 50 metres underwater in the Florida Keys.

  The women's world record dive is 61.8 metres.



Mandela hails retiring de Klerk