Asian Tsunami Disaster News

The Government Information Office will dole out cash donations for tsunami relief to charity groups late this month or early next month, GIO Minister Pasuya Yao said Monday.

Identifying all those killed by last year's tsunami in Thailand could take up to three years, ... News, Aug 18 TVs enlisted to distract militants at The Guardian (UK).

Global experts will gather at India 's Kalpakkam nuclear power plant in southern Tamil Nadu state this month to review risks from natural disasters like the tsunami in December that led to flooding in the vital ...

A number of tourists' hotels and the guest houses which are situated along the southern coastal belt were affected by the tsunami and now closed for business.

SRI LANKA: LEADER'S BROTHER IS NEW FOREIGN MINISTER President Chandrika Kumaratunga appointed her younger brother, Anura Bandaranaike, to be foreign minister.

SEOUL, Aug 23 Asia Pulse - A Thai passenger airplane remains impounded at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, after its South Korean sales agent filed a damages suit against the airline company, ...2.7

To the Editor: A tsunami devastated coastal areas of the Indian Ocean rim in December 2004.2.7

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's Supreme Court will announce on Friday whether the next presidential election will take place this year or next, the Chief Justice said on Monday, after a bitter political feud drove the ...2.9

Hundreds of Indonesian ground fires which sent a choking haze over parts of Malaysia and Thailand this month were lit by companies which had been charged with lighting fires in 2003, WWF said.2.9

A Woman's View: Tsunami Relief Effort Aug 22, 2005 4:02 pm US/Eastern PHILADELPHIA More than 200,000 people died in last December's Tsunami disaster.2.7

Global experts will gather at India's Kalpakkam nuclear power plant in southern Tamil Nadu statethis month to review risks from natural disasters like the tsunamiin December that led to flooding in the vital ...2.7

The vicissitudes of the stock market movements are now quite legendary. These idiosyncratic movements were also termed as 'irrational exuberance' when the IT bubble built up, and then true to the aphorism, ...2.7

The families of tsunami victims in Thailand may have to wait up to three years for their loved ones to be identified.2.7

A foundation ceremony for the China-Sri Lanka Friendship Village was held Monday in Walahanduwa of Galle district, about 144 km south of Colombo, to house the displaced and the homeless due to last y ear's ...2.7

Part lawyer, part campaigner. Oxfam's Joss Saunders talks to Lorraine Cushnie about fair trade coffee bars, the tsunami and 1,000 lawyers Statistics Organisation Oxfam Sector Charity Employees Annual legal ...2.7

TWO sisters are aiming to go to Sri Lanka to help rebuild an area severely damaged in last year's Boxing Day tsunami disaster.2.7

Bestselling thriller "The Da Vinci Code" by US author Dan Brown and the latest Harry Potter While the "Da Vinci Code" comes at the top of the list of books taken by members of the lower house of parliament to ...2.9

An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale shook Indonesia's Sulawesi island on Monday, driving residents out of their homes in panic but there were no reports of casualties or damage, an official said.2.7

A Maltese woman is on a mission to help a Buddhist monk and his family who are living in a tattered sheet tent in Sri Lanka after losing everything in the Boxing Day tsunami.2.7

As a foreign correspondent with The Independent and The Times newspapers, Richard Lloyd Parry has ... The Oxford graduate also reported from Aceh after the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.2.7

From the garbage dumps of New Delhi to the tsunami-hit coastlines of Indonesia, nearly 600 million Asian children, or half its young population, are living in poverty, a leading child charity said on Monday.2.1

Hijackers off the Somali coast are still holding a ship chartered by the United Nations World Food Programme , its 10-member crew, and 850 tons of rice for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami, more than seven ...2.7

Gaming-to-power Genting Bhd share price fell as much as 1.5% or 30 sen to RM19.50 on Aug 22 after it was reported that the Thai government may look at legalising casinos and other forms of gambling to boost the ...2.7

In January, three Texans from Austin came to this crippled city determined to make a difference in the lives of area residents, who suffered the worst damage in last year's tsunami that had devastated chunks of ...4.2

The architecture firm Lock-Build Group Co Ltd has jumped into property development with plans to ... The resort, situated on a 900-rai plot in Phangnga province, is owned by the German developer Rothermann 1998 (Thailand) Co Ltd.2.7

Last year's south Asian earthquake and tsunami was of a geological magnitude not seen in decades.2.7

Earthquakes, tsunamis, terrorism and epidemics are on the agenda at the New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists' annual meeting in Nelson next month.2.7

The incident occurred during a prayer and bhajan event at the Mata's V allikkav Ashram in Kerala's Kollam district.2.7

"In January two weeks after the tsunami a report file by AP estimated that 30 percent of US$ I billion would go astray because of corruption," says Adlai Goldberg, Ernst and Young Indonesia.2.7

HONOLULU - Newlyweds Ty and Kirschel Vollebregt considered their home state of California, Mexico and Europe when deciding where to spend their dream honeymoon.2.7

Mysore, Aug. 21 - A thief too will have a human attitude. To prove this, Sabulal, the prime accused in the theft of note bundles worth Rs.2.7

It's not simple getting around the Maldives -- 1,200 islands make for complicated transit.2.7

Honeymooners David and Jennifer Lane of Chicago had qualms about taking their post-wedding trip to this region struck by December's monster tsunami.2.7

TEMECULA ---- The wide swath of damage caused by the tsunami in southeast Asia and North Africa ... Southwest Riverside County was no exception, but while donations poured into the Red Cross, they were earmarked specifically for disasters like these, leaving some local chapters hurting for funds.2.7

Singapore Is it fun? 'Boring' Singapore? What expatriates say. Courtesy of ExpatSpore.com Aug 21, ... There are plenty of places to go mountain biking here and even more places close by in Malaysia and Indonesia.2.7