By Katherine Baldwin LONDON, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Five years on from the Indian Ocean tsunami, the region has its own early warning system but experts say the new technology will not save lives unless...
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By Katherine Baldwin LONDON, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Five years on from the Indian Ocean tsunami, the region has its own early warning system but experts say the new technology will not save lives unless...
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LONDON, Dec 25 (Reuters) - For more than 40 years, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWC) has been alerting countries in the Pacific region to the dangers of killer waves. Following the 2004...
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Clinton says tsunami-hit communities ready for future - Quickly rebuilding after disasters still a challenge - Lessons learned on inclusion, coordination, prevention By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK, Dec...
Indian Ocean archipelago is on climate change front line - Risks being swamped by sea rise through global warming - Climate change damages island fisheries, spurs disease By Pascal Fletcher PORT OF...
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Small island states seen threatened by rising sea levels * Commonwealth leaders to debate climate theme in Trinidad * Meeting is last big summit before U.N. climate talks * U.N. chief, French and...
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DENPASAR, Indonesia, May 21 (Reuters) Tourist beaches in Southeast Asia reopened on Monday after giant waves triggered by intense winds thousands of kilometres away crashed ashore last week, reviving...
By Simon Gardner COLOMBO, May 15 (Reuters) - Waves from an Indian Ocean storm surge swamped dozens of islands in the low-lying Maldives on Tuesday, the government said. Because the Maldives are on...
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By Onkar Pandey NEW DELHI, March 31 (Reuters) - Women who survived the 2004 Asian tsunami face heightened risks of violence, impoverishment and lack of privacy at relief camps in several nations, a...
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SINGAPORE, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Around $13.6 billion has been pledged by donors around the world to rebuild Indian Ocean countries after the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami, which killed 231,452 people,...
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DHAKA, Nov 10 (Reuters) - South Asian nations agreed on Thursday to set up a disaster management centre in India to help the region better handle calamities like tsunamis, earthquakes and floods that...
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By Bill Tarrant PERTH, Aug 4 (Reuters) - If another big tsunami were to roll across the Indian Ocean today, it would in all likelihood be detected and threatened nations would be alerted, the head of...
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By Elaine Lies KOBE, Japan, July 4 (Reuters) - The devastating tsunami that struck Asia last year has left several countries that were already vulnerable to AIDS at even greater risk of the deadly...
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By Douglas Bakshian LUXEMBOURG, June 24 (Reuters) - Despite the historic size of relief efforts, it will take as long as 10 years to rebuild what was destroyed in the tsunami that hit Asia last year,...
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SINGAPORE, June 23 (Reuters) - The toll of dead and missing six months after the Dec. 26 Indian Ocean quake and tsunami stands at 232,010, according to collated figures from government and health...
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By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON, June 3 (Reuters) - New World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz urged the international community on Friday to deliver on the outpouring of aid pledged for tsunami victims,...
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By Sue Pleming WASHINGTON, May 31 (Reuters) - Funds raised to help survivors of last December's Indian Ocean tsunami are being spent slowly by U.S. aid groups, with about 17 percent of private...
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By Tim Large LONDON, May 18 (Reuters) - The biggest donors to the aid effort after the Asian tsunami have made spending plans for less than 60 percent of the billions they promised, raising doubts...
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WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to put an additional $320 million into U.S. food aid this year to ensure that projects around the world are not left empty-handed...
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(Updates Malaysian figures) SINGAPORE, March 24 (Reuters) - The toll of dead and missing three months after the Asian tsunami, triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off Indonesia on Dec. 26, stands...
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By Stuart Grudgings MANILA, March 18 (Reuters) - Aid officials and ministers met in Manila on Friday to map out the next phase of recovery operations for tsunami-devastated Asian countries, discuss...