ITIC Director Kong attends a news conference with others at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan. International Tsunami Information Center Director Laura Kong (R) attends a news conference with Patricio Bernal (C), UNESCO Exective Secretary Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and Francois Schindele, Chairman of the International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific, at the U.N. World Conference on Disaster Reduction in the western Japanese port city of Kobe January 19, 2005. Experts from around the world at the conference began a session on Wednesday, to discuss a possible tsunami early warning system for the Indian Ocean area, where a giant tsunami killed more than 160,000 people last month. REUTERS/Issei Kato