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 KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) Feb 10, 2005 Germany and Malysia on Thursday urged the Indonesian government and separatist rebels in the tsunami-stricken province of Aceh to seize the chance presented by the catastrophe to reach a lasting peace. US marines end Sri Lanka tsunami mission, foreign troops set to leave COLOMBO (AFP) Feb 10, 2005 US marines have completed their tsunami relief operations in Sri Lanka while troops from seven other nations were also scaling down their work and preparing to withdraw from the island, a defence official said Thursday. |
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Indonesian president aims to resolve labour problems with Malaysia JAKARTA (AFP) Feb 10, 2005 President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Thursday he hoped to resolve problems about the rights of Indonesian workers in Malaysia during his visit there next week. Australian teen sentenced for tsunami aid fraud SYDNEY (AFP) Feb 10, 2005 A teenage Australian girl who used the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster to make money for herself was put on probation Thursday and ordered to perform 60 hours of community service. Aceh university students stage protest to demand fee waiver BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AFP) Feb 10, 2005 Some 300 university students in Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged Aceh staged a rally Thursday to protest an order for them to pay up fees for a new semester beginning next month. Task of collecting Indonesia's tsunami dead will take six months: Red Cross BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AFP) Feb 10, 2005 Teams collecting corpses in the Indonesian province of Aceh have estimated it will take at least another six months to find all the tsunami victims, the Red Cross said Thursday. Death toll in Asian tsunami disaster at 284,561 JAKARTA (AFP) Feb 10, 2005 The number of people believed killed in December's tsunami disaster was lowered to 284,561 Thursday, more than six weeks after the catastrophe, as Indonesia revised its toll downwards. Indonesia revises tsunami dead and missing toll down to 231,300 JAKARTA (AFP) Feb 10, 2005 Indonesia's health ministry on Thursday revised downwards the number of people dead and missing after December's earthquake and tsunami to 231,300. |
Indonesia calls for graft scrutiny as tsunami rebuilding begins BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AFP) Feb 10, 2005 Indonesia has urged the global community to heighten vigilance to ensure rampant corruption does not swallow billions of dollars of tsunami aid as it promises a March deadline to begin large-scale reconstruction in ravaged Aceh province. Coca Cola Amatil profits jump on strong Australasian business SYDNEY (AFP) Feb 10, 2005 Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) on Thursday announced a 44 percent jump in net profits to 280.3 million dollars for 2004, attributing the increase to a strong performance from its Australian and New Zealand businesses. Bush to seek 950 million dollars in tsunami aid WASHINGTON (AFP) Feb 10, 2005 US President George W. Bush on Wednesday announced plans to nearly triple US aid to nations devastated by the December 26 Indian Ocean tsunami, bringing total US assistance to 950 million dollars. British navy releases first images of Indian Ocean earthquake seabed LONDON (AFP) Feb 10, 2005 A British Navy survey ship on Wednesday released the first images of the seabed at the epicenter of last year's killer earthquake and tsunami that reveal the massive canyons and ridges left by the collision of two of the earth's plates. British navy releases images of Indian Ocean earthquake seabed LONDON (AFP) Feb 09, 2005 The British Navy surveying the seabed at the epicenter of December's Indian Ocean earthquake released its first images Wednesday that indicate a landslide occurred where two plates came together in a ridge. Intense quake off Japan recorded HONG KONG (AFP) Feb 09, 2005 An intense earthquake near some Japanese islands more than 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) southeast of Tokyo was recorded early Thursday, the Hong Kong Observatory said. |
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