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Asia-Pacific eyes coordinated disaster relief work
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.
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Asia-Pacific eyes coordinated disaster relief work
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.
German Memories in Asia - A Mission in Asia
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 ...
Asia-Pacific security forum to promote civilian-military relief coordination during disasters
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 ...
Linkin Park's Music for Relief To Receive Donation From MLB's Authentic Collection
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 ...
MYANMAR: Cyclone losses top US$4 billion
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 ...
Gujarat banks on tavar to fight tsunamis
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.
Tsunami affected fishermen to visit Vietnam
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.
Jaffna Memories - Moving Around War-Ravaged Jaffana Town
When I was moving in the wards with German students tsunami victims overflowed the wards.
White paper on tsunami relief funds demanded
SEEKING RELIEF: Members of the fishermen community during a Collectorate march taken out by the Matsya Thozhilali Congress in Alappuzha on Wednesday.
September 2008 AJPH Highlights: Schools of Public Health
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 ...
Permanent houses given to 60 tsunami-hit families
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 ...
Effects On Mental Health Assessed After Devastating Tsunami In Sumatra
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.
International aid: World food crisis 'is biggest issue facing charities'
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.
Footscray, Yarraville, Braybrook Star
Play an anatomy of holiday 'needs'
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 ...
1,100 houses for tsunami victims soon
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. ...
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Los Angeles Times
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.
A controversial -- and tragic -- photo
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.
How did the quake change China? - Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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.