Indian Ocean Earthquake

'The Impossible' navigates post-tsunami sensitivities

6 Jan 2013

Ewan McGregor is casting his mind back to Christmas 2004, and the Indian Ocean tsunami that caused havoc across Southeast Asia.

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Huge Indian Ocean quakes in April triggered massive aftershocks

28 Sep 2012

Planet earth may be 4.5 billion years old, but that does not mean she cannot serve up a shattering surprise now and again.

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Talking points

24 Dec 2011

Our editors will catch up on these developing stories when we return ...

Tsang to make final Beijing briefing

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Spirit aplenty, but where's the plan?

23 Apr 2011

If Japan earned a yen, or better still a US dollar, for every time that someone praised the resilience of its people in the aftermath of its earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident, it would be...

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Rebel rousers

28 Apr 2008

When he took power more than a year ago, Irwandi Yusuf knew that his job was going to be tough. But talking in his office in Banda Aceh, the governor of the embattled Indonesian province...

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Heritage regained

16 Mar 2008

The Asian tsunami killed thousands when it hit the city of Galle in southern Sri Lanka, destroyed homes and businesses and caused the world's worst rail disaster.

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Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

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Tsunami rebuilding effort must remain focused

There is an unfortunate disconnect between largesse and on-the-ground action, as the Indian Ocean tsunami so poignantly shows.

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Wave of recriminations

Andy Jamahuddin, 39, is building a gate outside his orange-coloured, tiny two-bedroom house, in the ghostly Gampong Blong village, in Banda Aceh's Ule Lheu neighbourhood. He does not have much to...

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Tsunami memorial a forgotten mess

Phuket's International Wall of Remembrance, a tribute to the foreign victims of the Boxing Day tsunami, has been allowed to fall into disrepair, with parts of the memorial destroyed by fire.

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Helping tsunami survivors

LAST MONTH, 20 volunteers from Macau, half of them students, spent $3,000 of their savings and five days of their summer holidays visiting tsunami survivors in Khao Lak, once a budding tourism...

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US hurricane victims deserve our support

We are unused to seeing tragedies on the scale of Hurricane Katrina in developed nations such as the United States. Countries with so much economic power, we assume, have built communities and...

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Students send funds to tsunami orphans

Students at King George V School concerned over the plight of children hit by the Boxing Day tsunami have raised $15,000 to help fund their education.

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