Asian Tsunami Disaster News

Asia-Pacific powers on Thursday announced an ambitious plan to pool their military and civilian resources for disaster responses in a region beset by cyclones, earthquakes and floods.

Asia-Pacific powers on Thursday announced an ambitious plan to pool their military and civilian resources for disaster responses in a region beset by cyclones, earthquakes and floods.

Singapore Downtown as seen from the DHL Balloon. 2008-07-23 08:01:48 - Once, Singapore's then Prime Minister Li Kuan Yew was impressed by Sri Lanka's economic progress and wanted to model Singapore along the ...

PACIFIC powers opened key security talks on Thursday focusing on coordinated civilian-military relief operations during disasters after tens of thousands of people died in the Myanmar cyclone and China ...

At 11:30 a.m. EST on Thursday, July 24 at Champs Sports at 5 Times Square in New York City, Mike Shinoda and David "Phoenix" Farrell from LINKIN PARK will accept a $25,000 check from the Major League Baseball ...

Cyclone Nargis, which battered Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Delta on 2 and 3 May, left an estimated US$4 billion worth of damage, on a par with the devastation caused by the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia, according to a ...

The bushy tavar, a wonder plant known for stopping water ingress, is being sown along the coastline in Gujarat to fight calamities like the tsunami that in 2004 claimed over 10,000 lives in India.

Laos News.Net Monday 21st July, 2008 Chennai, July 21 : Seven Tsunami affected fishermen will soon be visiting Vietnam for a 20-day sojourn to learn modern techniques of catching fish and trawler operations ...

PUDUKOTTAI: District unit of Tamil Nadu Revenue Officials' Association has urged the State Government to regularise workers executing the tsunami-relief programme in the coastal districts of the State.

When I was moving in the wards with German students tsunami victims overflowed the wards.

SEEKING RELIEF: Members of the fishermen community during a Collectorate march taken out by the Matsya Thozhilali Congress in Alappuzha on Wednesday.

Newswise - The articles below will be published online July 16, 2008, at 4 p.m. by the American Journal of Public Health under "First Look" at http://www.ajph.org/first_look.shmtl , and they are currently ...

NAGAPATTINAM: Non-Governmental organisations and the Government agencies engaged in the construction of about 3,700 permanent houses in the tsunami-affected areas in various parts of the district have been ...

Researchers examined the levels of post traumatic stress reactivity of over 20,000 adult tsunami survivors by analyzing survey data from coastal Aceh and North Sumatra, Indonesia.

The world food crisis is the biggest issue facing disaster relief charities and affects everything they do but it is hard to galavanise public support because there is no "big bang", an aid expert said today.

THE Boxing Day tsunami is synonymous with images of fear, loss and devastation. But shots of a couple lying on beach towels and drinking cocktails with the aftermath of the tsunami in the background don't ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Steps for constructing 1,100 houses as part of the Tsunami Rehabilitation Project have been taken with the target of completing their construction by February 2009, Revenue Minister K.P. ...

HOMER, Alaska - It is, in the world of volcanoes, one of the little guys - a bump on the sea, a molehill among mountains. Some days, Mt. Augustine barely peeks above the mist that settles across Cook Inlet in south central Alaska.

Residents of this fishing town 70 miles to the east have been keeping an eye on the volcano, which woke up Jan. 11 and dusted the inlet with ash. The mountain has been erupting intermittently ever since. It is the focus of attention for the region and the talk of the town for Homer, the nearest community of any size.

The tragic story of the fatal beating at a Rainier Beach traffic circle has been among the most-read and most-commented upon stories on this site over the past couple of days.

Was the Sichuan earthquake a tipping point for China? Local investor, Ho Kwon Ping, who owns luxury spa resorts in this part of China, things so.