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By Joe Ariyaratnam POINT PEDRO, Sri Lanka, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Already haunted by fears of a new tsunami or spread of disease, survivors picking through debris of entire towns to recover corpses at Sri Lanka's northern tip face a…

BEIJING, Dec 30, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- China will increase by a big margin its emergency assistance to the tsunami-hit countries in both goods and spot exchange, spokesman Chong Quan of the Ministry of Commerce said here Thursday…

[Information as of 30.12.04, 18:30] The supplementary credit of CHF 25 million announced by the Swiss Federal Council on 30 December will allow further actions on behalf of the victims of the tidal wave disaster. 50 Swiss experts are now…

The statistics available on the 30th of December 2004 placed the number of deaths at a staggering 23,154 the injured at 8,815 the missing at 4,729 and the displaced at 1,033,458 districts of the country have…

www.familylinks.icrc.org Tracing missing relatives in affected areas As a result of the strongest earthquake in 40 years and massive tidal waves in the <?xml:namespace prefix st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Bay of Bengal on 26/12/04, tens of thousands of people in the…

The Australian Government has mounted a comprehensive emergency relief operation as part of the international response to the Indian Ocean disaster. On the morning of Sunday 26 December a severe earthquake in the ocean off the coast of northern Sumatra…

Les raz-de-marée provoqués par le puissant séisme du 26 décembre ont ravagé les côtes de plusieurs pays du Sud-Est asiatique. La Croix-Rouge suisse a débloqué un million de francs au titre de l'aide d'urgence. La plus grande catastrophe naturelle de ces…

German Agro Action has raised the amount of aid for the victims of the tsunami in Southeast Asia to one million Euros. The organisation is currently supporting about 70,000 people in Sri Lanka, Southern India and Thailand. In the North…

Donations to tsunamis disaster reached HK$32 million "Most needed items are not only food, clothes and medicines, but also disposable gloves and masks for volunteers to collect and bury dead bodies. Yet, corpse bags are another urgently needed item." Betty Lau,…

A massive earthquake, measuring 9 on the Richter scale, has caused huge tidal waves to devastate coastal areas throughout South and South East Asia. Ten countries, including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand have been affected by the crisis in…