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Hussain Alifulhu: A brighter future in Dhuvaafaru, Maldives
More than four years after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, 48-year-old Hussain Alifulhu vividly remembers the events of the fateful day when "the sea swallowed Kandholhudhoo", an island in the Maldives' Raa Atoll. He had been asleep and was awakened...
Maldives tsunami survivors move back to “beloved island”
In the Maldives, the British Red Cross has completed construction of 250 new homes, allowing survivors from Vilufushi island, which was completely destroyed by the Boxing Day tsunami, to finally return home. New houses in the shade of a p...
Wanted: A New Home for My Country
By NICHOLAS SCHMIDLE One recent evening at the presidential palace in Malé, the capital of the Maldives, around 100 people showed up to watch a movie. Rows of overstuffed chairs in a gaudy combination of stripes and paisleys faced a projection scre...
Maldives: Appeal No. MAAMV001 - Annual report 2008
In a world of global challenges, continued poverty, inequity, and increasing vulnerability to disasters and disease, the International Federation – with its global network – works to accomplish its Global Agenda, partnering with local community ...
Jet Li: People should keep giving
Chinese action film star Jet Li on Thursday appealed for people to keep giving money for good causes despite the world economic crisis. The "Lethal Weapon 4" star, who set up his own foundation after a brush with danger during the 2004 Asian tsunam...
U.S. completes tsunami rebuilding projects in Sri Lanka, Maldives
Long-term work helps build economies, improve lives By Nancy Pontius Special Correspondent Washington — Four years ago, the Indian Ocean tsunami swept over coastal lands in Asia and Africa, killing more than 200,000 people, destroying cities and ...
Tsunami Victims Recovering 4 Years After Disaster
Four years after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies reports tremendous progress has been made in rebuilding the structures that were destroyed and in rehabilitating shattered com...
Indonesia commemorates 2004 deadly tsunami
Indonesia commemorated on Friday a tsunami in Aceh province on Dec. 24, 2004, which devastated the coastal areas of Indian Ocean and killed over 230,000 people, with 170, 000 of them in Aceh province. The commemoration took place in Meulaboh town at...
Maldives: Dhuvaafaru island comes alive
Nasim Mohammed is a worried man. In about one week's time he will lose almost 90 per cent of the customers in his restaurant. Nasim opened the Coral Garden Caf� on the Maldivian island of Ungoofaaru barely six months ago. Since then, he has been do...
Indonesia's Aceh will have tsunami museum
The building of Museum of tsunami, which features the horrified impact of the catastrophe four years ago in Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra island and Nias Island of North Sumatra, will be complete this month, a local media said here Thursday. O...
Regional governments, NGOs urged to prepare for major Sumatran quake
Experts are urging regional governments and humanitarian agencies to step up preparations in time for the next major West Sumatran earthquake. This comes after their studies show that an 8.8-magnitude earthquake could rock the coastal areas of Bengk...
Mega-tsunami hit southeast Asia 700 years ago
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A mega-tsunami struck southeast Asia 700 years ago rivalling the deadly one in 2004, two teams of geologists said after finding sedimentary evidence in coastal marshes. Researchers in Thailand and Indonesia wrote in two articles...
