Lieutenant Hiroji Yamashita says the first batch of troops will leave Aceh on March 4, with most of the remainder departing several days later.

Japan hast just closed its field hospital in the Lamara area of the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, which had been operating for more than a month.

The makeshift tent hospital treated thousands of patients.

"UNHCR's Acting High Commissioner Wendy Chamberlin wrote to Swiss foreign minister Micheline Calmy-Rey on Monday expressing our profound gratitude to the Federal Council for the

"We are concerned over their arrest because they hold the (UN refugee agency) appointment cards," Volker Turk, head of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Malaysia, told AFP.

Malaysian officials early Tuesday launched a controversial operation to round up, whip and deport hundreds of thousands

The government made this decision against the background that there had been frequent crossfires between GAM members and government troops since the first round of peace talks ended in Helsinki,

Director General of Primary and Secondary Education Indra Djati Sidi has said that aside from rebuilding the areas, the government would train local people to prepare for a natural disaster and provide a trauma center in the aftermath of a disaster.

"The post-tsunami conditions leave

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On the 19th and 20th Feb a medical health

As isolated survivors search in the rubble for anything of value, the machines scoop up mud, boards, furniture, bricks, books, crushed cars, bicycles, and the other remains of this city of 350,000 people, smashed by a 30- to 50-foot wall of water.

Officially, 119,000 died in Aceh Province, most of them here in Banda Aceh. Another 115,000 are missing and presumed

Tsunami had destroyed the bigger part of Sumatra north of the Republic of Indonesia and Banda Ache area, to the North of the Island is the most affected part of the world, it suffered 80% of total damage at its populated coastal area over 10km distance inland. The number of victims in this area is more than 230,000 dead (90% of them were buried). The main coastal roads were damaged, a state that made it difficult to reach there in order to identify the extent of needs and to assist the victims.

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- Co-ordination was made with the Kuwaiti

The U.S. government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an additional $10 million for reconstruction in Aceh, Indonesia, which was devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunami.

In a February 25 news release, the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta announced that the additional funding will "reintegrate displaced people back to their communities and support the re-establishment of livelihoods. This includes entrepreneurial, small business and other