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Admit tsunami-hit children, principals told - Ceylon Daily News


Admit tsunami-hit children, principals told
Ceylon Daily News, Sri Lanka - Jan 5, 2009
School principals have been instructed to take measures to admit children displaced by the tsunami disaster change of residence of students affected by the ...

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Indonesia’s West Papua Rocked by Quakes; One Dead - Bloomberg


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Indonesia’s West Papua Rocked by Quakes; One Dead
Bloomberg - Jan 4, 2009
A magnitude 9.1 quake off the coast of Sumatra, northwest of Jakarta, in 2004 produced a tsunami that killed more than 220000 people in 12 countries around ...
Video: Series of Powerful Quakes Kills 4 in Indonesia AssociatedPress
Quakes hit Indonesia's Papua Aljazeera.net
Series of quakes hit eastern Indonesia, killing 1 The Associated Press
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Indonesia remembers tsunami disaster - Radio Netherlands


Canada.com

Indonesia remembers tsunami disaster
Radio Netherlands, Netherlands - Dec 26, 2008
On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the commemoration was accompanied by a tsunami disaster drill in Manado city, attended by President Susilo Bambang ...
Video: Raw Video: Mourners Mark Tsunami Anniversary AssociatedPress
Asia mourns victims of 2004 tsunami Aljazeera.net
Tsunami Memorial WCTV
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Tsunami disaster – countries in crisis - UNICEF (press release)


UNICEF (press release)

Tsunami disaster – countries in crisis
UNICEF (press release), NY - Dec 23, 2008
By Jane O'Brien NEW YORK, USA, 23 December 2008 – The impact of the 2004 tsunami was particularly hard for children. Thousands lost family members and homes ...
Building back better: four years after the Indian Ocean tsunami UNICEF UK (press release)
Lessons of the tsunami UNICEF (press release)
committed to long-term interventions UNICEF (press release)
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Indonesian coral reef recovering after devastating tsunami and ... - Mongabay.com


Indonesian coral reef recovering after devastating tsunami and ...
Mongabay.com - Jan 5, 2009
Four years after the tsunami researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have returned to site of the disaster to survey the damaged reefs and ...

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Can America Clean Up from Its Worst Environmental Disaster ... - AlterNet


Baltimore Sun

Can America Clean Up from Its Worst Environmental Disaster ...
AlterNet, CA - Jan 5, 2009
But this environmental disaster may be the worst in the country's history and the threats to health and the environment are severe, as the residents are ...
Tennessee: Community awaits answers Chattanooga Times Free Press
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Phang-nga commemorates 4th anniversary of Boxing Day tsunami disaster - Thai News Agency MCOT


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Phang-nga commemorates 4th anniversary of Boxing Day tsunami disaster
Thai News Agency MCOT, Thailand - Dec 25, 2008
... held a tsunami remembrance ceremony in the southern province of Phang-nga to mark the fourth anniversary of the December 26 disaster that hit Thailand's ...
Tsunami's fourth anniversary marked ITV.com
Tsunami Still Haunts Burmese Migrants The Irrawaddy News Magazine
Tsunami left us sadder and wiser Nation Multimedia
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Meteorite Strikes, Setting Off a Tsunami: Did It Happen Here? - New York Times


Meteorite Strikes, Setting Off a Tsunami: Did It Happen Here?
New York Times, United States - Dec 30, 2008
This disaster occurred about 2300 years ago, though how bad it was, or even if it was a tsunami, remains in dispute. But several geologists have collected ...

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Jamaat Islami hands over new houses to Tsunami victims in TN - Indian Muslims


Jamaat Islami hands over new houses to Tsunami victims in TN
Indian Muslims, CA - Jan 5, 2009
TNRC has been doing relief and rehabilitation work in the state since Tsunami hit the Indian coastlines on December 26, 2004. Soon after the disaster TNRC ...

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Aceh to hold massive prayer Friday on tsunami - Jakarta Post


Aceh to hold massive prayer Friday on tsunami
Jakarta Post, Indonesia - Dec 25, 2008
The tsunami disaster on Dec. 26, 2004, killed approximately 129775 people, caused 36786 people missing and forced some 174000 people to evacuate. ...

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