Asian Tsunami Disaster News

Members of Wellington-based Samoa Advisory Council gather donations. [courtesy photo] A contingent from the Wellington-based Samoa Advisory Council this week presented five containers of tsunami aid assistance as well as NZ$ 66,850 to the government.

A WESTCOUNTRY couple who found love amid the horrors of the Boxing Day tsunami have returned to the scene of the disaster five years on - to get married.

Gov. Togiola Tulafono announced during last Friday's press conference that a vessel was arriving on Saturday , to bring in 27 individual generators, with one megawatt each to assist with power generation in the territory.

THE Piers Simon Appeal is looking for volunteers to help with its collection in the Quedam Centre later this month during the switching-on of the festive lights in Yeovil.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is working on a blue print plan for the types of new homes to be built for local families, whose houses were destroyed by the Sept.

Gunmen have opened fire on the home of John Penny, a Briton who serves as the EU's envoy in the staunchly Islamic Indonesian province of Aceh.

Afuafu Tuilaepa is the senior lady and matriarch of Chief Tuilaepa Fua'ava's family clan at Manono Island.

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency is ready to help American Samoa assess and fund an island-wide siren alert system, which has to be initiated by the local government, says a top FEMA official.

FEMA Regional IX Administrator Nancy Ward and Gov. Togiola Tulafono during yesterdaya s press conference in Tafuna, where Ward was introduced.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office made no specific recommendation in its report "Poverty Determination in U.S. Insular Areas," but says that "owing to high levels of poverty," the U.S. territories "rely heavily on need-based federal programs to provide basic services." [+] The following the the text of the GAO report submitted to ...

About 60 Muslim fishermen and their families congregated in a community hall on Sri Lankaa s east coast to pray for Raj Rajaratnam after he was arrested for alleged insider trading at his New York hedge fund.

When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Indonesia earlier this year, she said: "If you want to know whether Islam, democracy, modernity, and women's rights can coexist, go to Indonesia." When she visited Pakistan recently, she was polite but much more critical in her words, basically accusing some government officials of sheltering ...

Thursday, 12 November 2009, 4:29 pm Press Release: Manukau City Council Media release 12 November 2009 $19,000 raised for tsunami relief fund Almost $19,000 has been raised by the community to help out with the tsunami relief work in the Pacific nations of Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga.

While there has been talk about relocating tsunami affected families away from the shoreline in the rebuilding efforts, the Federal Emergency Management Agency says there are no specific details yet.

Retired Postmaster and Red Cross chairman Smitty McMoore died yesterday afternoon at the LBJ Medical Center in Fagaalu after a drowning incident that occurred while he and three other members of the American Samoa Red Cross Relief Foundation were SCUBA diving off the shores of Gataivai.

Not all of the three U.S. major canneries are supportive of the American Samoa Protection of Industry, Resources and Employment bill.

A UFO research organisation has revealed that sightings went up drastically in Cumbria, shortly before an earth tremor hit the area.

The governor of the Indonesian province where a German Red Cross worker was shot on Thursday says the attack was politically motivated, and believes he knows who is responsible.

The number of confirmed cases of dengue fever in American Samoa doubled in the month following the deadly 29 September tsunami.

Big-hearted couple Colin and Rosemarie Bray have just returned from Sri Lanka after raising A 12,000 to build a new school.