Reports

A huge four-day nationwide food began Monday with tons of key products collected at supermarkets throughout Israel being immediately dispatched to the tsunami disaster zone in Southeast Asia. Magen David Adom has stationed over 4,000 of its volunteers and workers…

Situation The following is a summary of the scale of the disaster in Sri Lanka. - Total deaths: 30,196 - Total displaced persons: 834,849 - Total injured: 15,683 - Total missing: 3,846 - Total completely damaged houses: 88,022 - Total number camps: 789 The government…

Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for International Development, has today announced that Sri Lanka will be added to the list of countries eligible for the new multilateral debt relief initiative announced by the Chancellor in September 2004. Under this initiative…

Galle (dpa) - The first U.S. soldiers to participate in relief efforts in tsunami-devastated Sri Lanka have arrived in the country, the U.S. embassy in Colombo said Tuesday. An embassy spokesman said the troops arrived in the capital Colombo, but…

By Katherine Baldwin AMPARA, Sri Lanka, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Heavy rain again lashed parts of eastern Sri Lanka on Tuesday, flooding camps housing hundreds of thousands of people made homeless by the Indian Ocean tsunami. Just as an international aid…

COLOMBO, Jan 4, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- An Boeing 747 carrying relief goods from China for Sri Lankan tsunami-hit areas landed at the Bandaranaike International Airport here early Tuesday morning. The relief goods worth 15 million yuan (around 1.83 million…

To critics who say that there was too little relief effort in the early phase of last week's devastating Asian tsunami, United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland had three words today: "I respectfully disagree." But he maintained his assertion…

Rejecting myths arising out of major historical plagues, relief workers coping with large numbers of people killed by natural disasters such as last week's earthquake and tsunami in South Asia should make every effort to respect the traditions of…

1. On January 4 (Tue), the Government of Japan decided to dispatch a second Japan Disaster Relief Medical Team from January 5 (Wed) to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, which was struck by a devastating tsunami caused…

Japanese victims of the earthquake/tsunami disaster Press Secretary Hatsuhisa Takashima: Good afternoon and Happy New Year to you. Thank you very much for coming to the briefing. Today, I would like to give you some information on the earthquake and tsunami…