Tsunami News

Officials ponder how to protect Thai image CHADAMAS CHINMANEEVONG & CHATRUDEE THEPARAT The country's lucrative tourism industry is looking for ways to revive Thailand's image among foreign visitors and to stem ...

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A man has become a tourist attraction in a seaside town after learning to surf on his head.

Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage , a nationwide non-profit organization founded to protect the common national heritage, has signed an agreement with the Swiss Red Cross to secure sustainable ...

Unidentified men had abducted the Muslim man 12 August and his body was recovered from a house in an area where Tsunami victims are located, Kaaththaankudi residents said.

Flood-hit northern India is in dire need of international aid on the level of that seen after the 2004 Asian tsunami, a state official said Wednesday.

The Department of the Environment says over 100,000 dead fish floated up in the South River in Annapolis Monday night.

New Delhi, Sept.2 : The Bharatiya Janata Party today appealed to the UPA Government to change the way it dealt with natural calamities like floods and earthquakes.

A woman and her six children, as well as two other children and their mother, died in a storm surge that swept over their home at Big Slough, near Bastrop Bayou during the hurricane that struck Brazoria County ...

Australian and US personnel transported food aid to a helicopter bound for villages on Aceh's tsunami-hit west coast in January 2005.

In 1883, a volcano off the coast of Indonesia erupted, setting off a mega-tsunami that killed some 36,000 nearby villagers almost instantly.

As a series of small earthquakes shakes the coast of British Columbia, the picturesque Vancouver Island tourist town of Tofino says it will have to find its own funds for tsunami warning sirens because the ...

New Delhi News.Net Monday 1st September, 2008 Hambantota , Sep.1 : India and China are reportedly competing to gain a commercial and strategic edge in the busy sea lanes of the Indian Ocen, even as China has ...

A leading trade union has launched a campaign aimed at tackling a "tidal wave" of violence against transport workers after new research showed that many incidents were going unreported.

A scene from Vinyan. French actress Emmanuelle Beart and the Belgian director of her latest movie have defended Vinyan, amid concerns that the film which opens with the 2004 tsunami may be insensitive to people ...

A children's fantasy by Japanese animation guru Hayao Miyazaki was a welcome counterpoint on Sunday to a pair of grim psychological dramas for grown-ups at the Venice film festival.

The director of a violent supernatural thriller set in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami has insisted the film's subject matter had been treated with respect.

Lugging their suitcases under the Thai sun, foreign tourists walked around cars lining the highway to Phuket's airport, hoping for an end to the protest that has shuttered the island's runway.

Mr Dunne said the rate would rise from 10.57 percent to 10.9 percent. He said the rate was reviewed regularly to align it with the results of the Reserve Bank's survey of first mortgage interest rates.

CHF International just delivered a new vocational training center in Banda Aceh, Indonesia -- the epicenter and region hardest hit by the 2004 tsunami.