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Scoop Report: Australia's Deputy PM Resigns - Vaile Tipped For Promotion - Selwyn Manning reports that Australian Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson resigned Thursday afternoon citing ill-health had caused him to lose his passion for politics. It is understood Anderson is suffering from a prostate problem. A reshuffle of John Howard's conservative government's cabinet is now on order. "I have advised the prime minister and my party that my resignation will take effect from mid-July, and I expect the Nationals party room will hold a leadership ballot before the House rises," - John Anderson. Scoop details Anderson's career and examines the credentials of the man tipped to take over - Mark Vaile. See... Scoop Report: Australia's Deputy PM Resigns
Scoop Images: Pakistan President Officially Welcomed To New Zealand - Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf was formally welcomed to New Zealand this morning at Government House, Auckland, by Governor General Dame Silvia Cartwright. Later he held a press conference before attending at state banquet addressed by PM Helen Clark. See her speech... State Dinner in Honour of Pakistan President - PM. Also see... Scoop Images: Pres. Musharraf Welcomed In Auckland & Ceremonial Welcome for the President of Pakistan
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FULL COVERAGE: Disaster Tsunami Hits South East Asia
ANZACs Observe Minutes Silence In Sumatra.
National Says Govt Must Consult Over Cost Of Aid Package - National Party Foreign Affairs & Trade spokesman Lockwood Smith is congratulating the Government on its renewed focus on a major tsunami aid package. See... Labour should consult on tsunami aid
NZ Update:
- World Vision - World Vision funds top $3m
- Habitat For Humanity - Indian Ocean Tsunami Victims Need YOUR Expertise
- MFAT - MFAT Tsunami Update
Richard Ehrlich's Tsunami Report: Tattoos Help Forensic Identification - PHUKET, Thailand -- The popularity of tattoos among foreigners and Thais has helped identify bodies recovered from the tsunami, especially when it is difficult to match DNA with a relative, or find dental records, according to a U.S. government forensic ... See... Tattoos Help Identify Tsunami Victims' Bodies
Int Update:
- UN - UN Conference Seeks To Reduce Disasters' Toll
- UN - Tsunami Early Warning System Moves To Centre Stage
Richard Ehrlich's Tsunami Report: Embassy Squabbles Hold Up Forensics At Morgue - PHUKET, Thailand -- Egotistical squabbles among international embassies, recovery and forensics teams in which "everybody wanted to be the boss," caused problems while identifying the tsunami's dead at the main morgue in a Buddhist temple, according ... See... Ehrlich: Body Identification Ruckus In Phuket
Prime Minister Speaks On Tsunami Tragedy - We all identified with the desperate struggle for survival, the heartbreak of seeing loved ones and friends swept to their deaths, with the seriously injured, and with the trauma and distress suffered by survivors and witnesses of this calamity. See PM Address at Interfaith Tsunami Memorial Service
ALSO: Brash honours tsunami victims
NZ Update:Tsunami: Amex matches reward point redemptions
Int Update:
- WTO - Supachai urges members to help tsunami sufferers
- UN - Bird Flu Must Stay Out Of Tsunami Relief Food
- UN - UN - Tsunami: Empowering Women To Address Needs
- Tamil - UNP demands transparency in relief distribution
- Tamil - Avoid politicisation of relief efforts cautions EU
- UN - Sri Lanka: Close to 18,500 vessels lost or damaged
- Bloomsbury - Bloomsbury Global Book Aid For Tsunami Fund
NZDF Photos Of The Medical Team In Banda Aceh.
PM Announces NZ Delegation Leaves For Kobe UN Disaster Conference Sunday
- Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today that the government is sending a strong delegation to the United Nations World Conference on Disaster Reduction. "The New Zealand delegation leaves this Sunday for the UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan, where there will be discussion of how best to provide tsunami warnings for the Indian Ocean," Helen Clark said.
See... NZ at United Nations disaster reduction conference
Richard Ehrlich's Tsunami Report: Sick Side Of Thai Entrepreneurship - PHUKET, Thailand -- Shops are selling high-quality, colour photographs of bloated, blackened corpses of foreign tourists and Thais who perished in the tsunami, and video compact disks showing waves battering and flooding Thailand's tiny islands. See... Tsunami Report: Thai Shops Selling Gruesome Photos
Goff Announces Sponsorship Of NZ Tsunami Cricket Series
- Government to sponsor tsunami cricket series The government is to support New Zealand Cricket's tsunami fundraising efforts by sponsoring runs scored during the Black Caps' three-match series against a World XI, Foreign Minister Phil Goff announced ... See... Government to sponsor tsunami cricket series NZ Update:
- World Vision - Appeal reaches $2.5m
- Greens - NZ should join call for Aceh ceasefire to help aid
- Skycity - SKYCITY to observe memorial tsunami victims Day
INt. Update:
- ETAN - Tsunami Must Not Stop Restrictions on Indonesia
- United Nations - UN: Achenese Hired To Clear Tsunami Rubble
- Australia Defence - HMAS Kanimbla To Arrive Shortly At Banda Aceh
- United Nations - Global Tsunami Early Warning System Plans Begin
- United Nations - Fishermen Suffered Huge Material Toll From Tsunami
Kiwis Donate $2million To Tsunami Via World Vision - World Vision New Zealands tsunami appeal reached $2.04m today after receiving a big boost from text message donations from mobile phones. See... Tsunami appeal boosted by text donations
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- Save The Children - Have Confidence In Aid Agencies
-Amway - Amway Answers Call For Much-Needed Supplies
- BNZ - Bank of New Zealand donates $100,000
Richard Ehrlich's Tsunami Report: Free Flights For Brits - PHUKET, Thailand -- The British government is offering free airfare and accommodation for British families who lost relatives in the tsunamis, so they can grieve amid the wreckage of hotels, inspect the devastated beaches and escort the remains back ... See... Free Airfares For British Tsunami Victims Families
International Update:
- United Nations - Private sector joins UNDP to rebuild Maldive homes
- UNICEF - Beckham Shoots For Unicef Tsunami Relief Campaign
- United Nations - Time Is Of The Essence As UN Rushes In Tsunami Aid
- Tamils - Tamilnet: Bishop praises relief efforts
Oxfam's Kate Medlicott Leaves For Sri Lanka.
Richard Ehrlich's Tsunami Report - Forensic teams buried the cadavers of foreign tourists and Thais in shallow graves "to slow the decomposition" while conducting DNA tests, because refrigeration was not available for thousands of bodies recovered from the tsunamis, according to a UN disaster assessment official. See... Tsunami Forensics Bury Bodies To Preserve For DNA
Sunday To Be Tsunami Memorial Day
- Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today that the government is designating Sunday 16 January as a Memorial Day for New Zealanders to remember the victims of the Boxing Day tsunami in southern and south east Asia. See... Memorial Day for victims of tsunami ALSO:
NZ to help Thais with forensic work
Richard Ehrlich's Tsunami Report - KHAO LAK BEACH, Thailand -- Scavengers, survivors, nuns and corporate logos have appeared along this mangled, death-pocked coast where vehicles jut from wet sand and bonfires consume five-star trash. See... Tsunami Scavengers Survivors Nuns And Corps
International Update:
- United Nations - UN Agencies Zero In On Specific Tsunami Relief
- United Nations - UN Refugee Chief Begins Asian Visit
- United Nations - UNDP Provides Equipment for Thai Coral Clean-up
- Tamils - Tamils: "Inaccurate reports damaging aid delivery"
- Confederation Of Unions - Tsunami relief: Global Unions launch aid effort
Richard Ehrlich's Tsunami Reports - PHUKET, Thailand -- Internet Websites, blogs, chat groups and databases are flooded with tsunami scams, gruesome morgue photos, official warnings, donation requests, Islamic propaganda against Thailand, and ridiculous jokes, causing confusion See... Tsunami Report: Cyberspace Blogs & Gruesome Photos
ALSO: Tsunami Report: Tourists Return To Stench & Sand
Scoop Feedback: Arab Nations Are Raising Money For Victims - I live in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and I can assure you that there have been huge efforts in the Gulf States to raise money and goods to send to the tsunami areas. In Saudi Arabia $85 million was raised in a charity show, $5 million in a similar effort in Dubai. See... Feedback: Bias Is Showing On Arab Tsunami Story
ALSO: Tsunami: Paul Buchanan Responds To Reader's Claim
Has Tsunami Loosened al-Qaeda's Hold? - Paul Buchanan writes that unnoticed amid the grief and human misery that followed the tidal waves across the Indian Ocean are the political victims of the relentless surge. As the world organizes an unprecedented relief effort to address the tragedy, what is most striking is the conspicuous absence of several otherwise prominent actors on the world scene. See... Tsunami Political Victims: How It Swamped al Qaeda
NZ Update:
- TEAR Fund - TEAR Fund receives over $1 million
- Civil Defence - Disasters: Dont think if, think when
INT Update:
- UNICEF - How to protect children in the tsunami zone
- United Nations - Tsunami Relief Effort Gathers Momentum
- Tourism Industry - Fast recovery in Phuket
- Maldives - Maldives establishes Board to ensure transparency
- Australia Defence - World Cricket Tsunami Appeal At Melbourne MCG
- Pacific Media Watch - Helicopter Tsunami Journalism - What's Missing?
TSUNAMI HEADLINES:
For FULL COVERAGE: See... Scoop's Tsunami Feature.
NZ Update:
INT Update:
Richard Ehrlich's Tsunami Reports - PHUKET, Thailand -- Internet Websites, blogs, chat groups and databases are flooded with tsunami scams, gruesome morgue photos, official warnings, donation requests, Islamic propaganda against Thailand, and ridiculous jokes, causing confusion See... Tsunami Report: Cyberspace Blogs & Gruesome Photos
ALSO: Tsunami Report: Tourists Return To Stench & Sand
Rosalea Wonders Why Tsunami Do Not Have Names - Even two weeks' silence is not enough to honour the dead. There will never be enough time to do that. So I give in to my own need to make sense of the event of (almost) 1 am UTC, 26 December, 2004 and write. See... Stateside With Rosalea: I am
Tsunami:Aceh to Jakarta: Refugees On Board RNZAF Hercules.
Tsunami Disaster: NZAID Transfers NZD$3million To UNOCHA - NZAID, the Government aid and development agency, today confirmed a payment from New Zealand of $3 million to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) Flash Appeal for the Indian Ocean tsunami which was launched yesterday. See... NZAID Confirms $3 million dollar aid payment
NZ Update:
- World Vision - New Idea partners with World Vision
- Oxfam - Oxfam: Jakarta Tsunami Emergency Summit
- NZ Govt - New Officers Helping Kiwis Returning From Tsunami
- NZ Defence - NZDF Medical Team in Indonesia
- Body Shop - Body Shop Challenges Co.s To Help Tsunami Victims
Mammoth Aid Operation Must Feed Two Million People For Six Months - The nearly $1 billion United Nations flash appeal that Secretary-General Kofi Annan launched today for the survivors of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami ranges from the massive cost of feeding 2 million people for the next six months to relatively ... See... Tsunami Relief Must Feed 2 Million For 6 Months
INT Update:
Enormous Problems Persist For Tsunami Relief Op
Jakarta: Annan Launches Nearly $1 Billion Appeal
Maldives Requires US$ 239 million In Relief
Rescue Ops In Tsunami Devastated Tamil Areas
Tsunami: UN Warns 150,000 More People Are At Extreme Risk Of Dying - On the eve of the launch of a massive emergency appeal for countries devastated by last week's Asian tsunami, the United Nations health agency warned again today that 150,000 people are at "extreme risk" of dying from preventable diseases unless access to clean drinking water and other basic needs are restored within days.See... UN Warns 150,000 Could Die Without Urgent Care
NZDF:Tsunami: Colin Powell Visits Australian Medic Team In Sumatara.
NZ Update:
- Christian World Service - Deaths Higher Than Reported in Tamil Nadu, India
- Christian World Service - Auckland hosp rallies to assist Tsunami victims
- Red Cross - Red Cross South Asia Tsunami Appeal sets record
- Caritas - NZers Give Generously to Caritas Tsunami Appeal
- NZ Defence - Tsunami Relief - NZDF Update 4
- MFAT - MFAT Tsunami Update
Manukau City - Manukau pledges support to Tsunami appeals
- Fairfax - Fairfax Commits To Tsunami Campaign
- ING Group - ING contributes USD 1 million
Tsunami:NZ Army Nurse Major Debs Blythen Attends To Aceh Victims.
NZDF: Whangarei's Gemma Day Is Making A Difference In Jakarta.
PM Announces Increase In Aid For Tsunami Victims
- Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that the government is lifting New Zealand's contribution to immediate humanitarian relief for tsunami-stricken parts of Asia: "The immediate task facing the international community right now is addressing the urgent humanitarian crisis," she said. See... Tsunami: New Zealand increases support
NZ Update:
- Oxfam - Old money & false promises for tsunami countries?
- NZ Defence - Tsunami Relief - NZDF Update 2
- NZ Defence - RNZAF Flight To Aceh Delayed
- WSPA - Animal Suffering Post Tsunami
TO Help: Phone World Vision 0800 80 2000 - Oxfam 0800 600 700 or 0800 400 666 - Red Cross 0900 31 100 - TEAR Fund 0800 800 777 - Caritas 0900 4 11 11 - Christian World Service 0800 74 73 72.
For More: See... FULL COVERAGE: Disaster Hits South East Asia
Tsunami Thailand: Documenting The Dead - The Thai government is in the process of establishing an international standard post mortem and ante-mortem identification centre in Phuket as the processing of victims of the tsunami that hit Thailand gets underway. See... Disaster Victim Identification Process Update
INT Update:
- Maldives Govt - Tsunami affected the entire Maldives population
- Unicef - UNICEF identifies key steps to save children
- Tamil Tigers - Tamil Tigers Appeal To International Community
- United Nations - UN Officials Tour Countries Hit By Tsunami
Tsunami Affected The Entire Maldives Population.
Ehrlich's Tsunami Report: Interview With A Dead Worker - PHUKET, Thailand -- A Canadian who helped carry and separate about 500 corpses into "Asian" and "foreign" piles at a Buddhist temple, said bodies were covered in dry ice until forensic teams could decide who could be cremated in Thailand or shipped overseas. See... Tsunami: Interviews With A Dead Worker
The Australian Defence Force Helps Purify Water In Aceh.
Tsunami: Save The Children Reports 60,000 Children Have Died - Over 60,000 children have died in the tragic tsunami and the death toll will continue to rise. Of the deaths, over half are believed to have occurred in Indonesias Aceh Province, where Save the Children has conducted development and relief programmes. See 60,000 Children Die In Tsunami
Goff Heads Off For Phuket and Jakarta - Foreign Minister Phil Goff leaves for Phuket to meet New Zealanders engaged in tsunami relief and body identification work. Mr Goff will fly on to Indonesia to join Prime Minister Helen Clark at Thursday's summit of international donors in Jakarta. If logistics permit, Mr Goff also hopes to fly to Aceh to visit Defence Force personnel involved in relief work there. See... Goff to visit Phuket, Jakarta
NZ Update:
- MFAT - MFAT Tsunami Update 17
- NZ Defence - NZDF Update - 1
- Red Cross - Red Cross worker assures money will be well used
- Oxfam - Oxfam Has Sent Kiwi Engineers to Aceh
TO Help: Phone World Vision 0800 80 2000 - Oxfam 0800 600 700 or 0800 400 666 - Red Cross 0900 31 100 - TEAR Fund 0800 800 777 - Caritas 0900 4 11 11 - Christian World Service 0800 74 73 72.
Kofi Annan To Hold Int. Conference In Jakarta
- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today he would attend a high-level international conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, later this week to launch an appeal for emergency funds for the massive relief effort the UN is helping to coordinate in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster. See... Annan Spearheads Donor Drive Will Visit Indonesia
INT Update:
- Pacific Media Watch - Serambi Back On Newsstands Again
- Australia Defence - ADF Getting on With The Job in Bandeh Aceh
Richard Ehrlich's Tsunami Report: U.S. Families Send In The Body Hunters - PHUKET, Thailand -- The family of an American real estate agent who vanished in the tsunamis, hired U.S. investigators to find him dead or alive, but after seven days of searching, no trace emerged of the missing Illinois man, a security expert said. See... U.S. Families Paying Investigators To Find Bodies
NZ Medic Team Leaves For Aceh.
Ehrlich Tsunami Report: Cremations Begin In Their Thousands - PHUKET, Thailand -- Cremating thousands of tsunami victims at Buddhist temples has become a grim task, but Thailand's monks are trained by "corpse meditation" and staring at photos of decomposing bodies to deal with the transitory nature of life. See... Tsunami: Thousands Of Cremations A Grim Task
ALSO: Tsunami: The Missing In Phuket
TO Help: Phone World Vision 0800 80 2000 - Oxfam 0800 600 700 or 0800 400 666 - Red Cross 0900 31 100 - TEAR Fund 0800 800 777 - Caritas 0900 4 11 11 - Christian World Service 0800 74 73 72.
Govt And Private Sector Partnership Sees Helicopter Donated For Aceh Relief
- Government to fund helicopter for Aceh relief Foreign Minister Phil Goff has welcomed the development of a New Zealand private-public sector partnership to deliver immediate assistance to areas devastated by the Asian tsunami. Mr Goff said the government would provide funding for a New Zealand company operating helicopters in Kalimantan (Borneo) to deliver urgently-needed relief supplies in Aceh, Indonesia. See... Government to fund helicopter for Aceh relief NZ Update:
- NZ Govt - NZ medical team deployed to Indonesia
- MFAT - MFAT Reports Craig Patrick Baxter Killed In Tsunami
- MFAT - MFAT Tsunami Update 15
- NZ Defence - NZ Medical Team on Route to Aceh
- World Vision - World Vision commits to in long term Tsunami rehab
- Red Cross - New inquiries to NZ Red Cross call centre drop
- Oxfam - New Years revelers gave generously to Appeal
United Nations Collates Over USD$2 Billion In Tsunami Aid - With some 40 countries offering support for the victims of the tsunami disaster, over $2 billion in pledges had already been recorded for the emergency and recovery phase, a senior United Nations relief official said today. See... UN: Over $2 Billion In Tsunami Relief Pledges
Int Update:
- State Of Acheh - Thank You World
- Australia Defence - Update - Defence Support To Tsunami Relief In Aceh
- Australia Defence - Australian Army Helicopters Depart For Indonesia
- Maldives - Maldives: Tsunami Economic loss will be billions
Ehrlich Tsunami Report: U.S. Trio Give Eye Witness Account - PHUKET, Thailand -- Three Americans remained on a beach enjoying the ''beauty,'' ''energy'' and ''mass of white'' of an approaching tsunami, and marveled in awe when it suddenly sucked all the water from the bay. See... U.S. Trio Wait For The Big One On The Beach
Tsunami Disaster: Aftermath Horror Builds
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NZ Medics Deployed To Indonesia
- NZ medical team deployed to Indonesia New Zealand will contribute urgent medical assistance in response to the crisis caused by the catastrophic impact of the earthquake and tsunami in Aceh province, Indonesia, says Foreign Minister Phil Goff. See... NZ medical team deployed to Indonesia
NZ Update:
- Red Cross - Good New Year For Red Cross Call Centre
- Red Cross - Red Cross appeal reaches a million dollars
- Oxfam - US-led tsunami "core group" must support UN
- World Vision - World Vision NZ has raised $350,000
- MFAT - MFAT Tsunami Update 14 At 1700 On Saturday 1 Jan
- MFAT - MFAT Tsunami Update 13 At 1230
- MFAT - MFAT Tsunami Update 12
- Indonesia Human Rights - Aceh Suffering Gravest Catastrophe
- Ethnic Council - Federation Of Ethnic Councils - Tsunami
Pledges For Tsunami Victims Top $1.1 Billion - UN Boss says logistics Biggest Challenge. With governments and international organizations having increased their combined pledges to help the victims of last Sunday's Asian tsunami to between $1.1 billion and $1.2 billion, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned today that the biggest challenge is now overcoming the logistics of distributing aid and relief supplies to the hardest-hit areas. See UN: Pledges For Tsunami Victims Top $1.1 Billion
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UN Response To Tsunami Focuses On Large And Small
Powell At Indonesian Embassy Signing Condolences
Powell With UNSG Kofi Annan After Their Meeting
The Seychelles Calls For Aid
Update - Defence Support To Tsunami Relief In Aceh
Australia's Helicopters Leave On Disaster Mission
Tsunami Aftermath: PM To Return To New Zealand
- Prime Minister Helen Clark is cutting short her annual vacation and returning to New Zealand following the devastating tsunami in South and South East Asia. Helen Clark said today that she has been in daily contact with Foreign Minister Phil Goff and key staff following news of the tsunami. See... PM to return to New Zealand
NZ Update:
- MFAT - MFAT Tsunami Update 11 - Unaccounted For NZers
- Oxfam NZ - Oxfam mobilises in the disaster area
- World Vision - Aid workers move through devastated regions
- Oxfam NZ - Call for volunteers as Oxfam phones run hot
- Telecom - Telecom Assistance To Tsunami Crisis
INT Update:
- Thai Govt - Thailand's Finance Minister Inspects Disaster Zone
- United Nations - Relief In Worst-Hit Countries
- Maldives Govt - Tsunami Delays Maldives Elections
- HelpAge India - Relief Work For Tsunami Victims in India
- Australian Churches - Australia Churches Tsunami Response
RNZAF 757 Departs For Phuket - An RNZAF 757 Aircraft will depart from Whenuapai Airbase for Phuket this afternoon. On board the aircraft will be a 10-member Disaster Victim Identification Team, comprising eight Police personnel, a dentist and a pathologist. Also on board will be an Emergency Response Team... See... MFAT Tsunami Update 7 At 2230 On Wednesday 29 Dec
Richard Ehrlich Interviews Phuket Survivors - BANGKOK, Thailand -- Foreign tourists rescued from a tiny island off the coast of Phuket said they thought a terrorist was shooting people, a dam had burst or a hurricane hit moments before they saw huge waves sweep helpless victims into the Andaman Sea. See... Richard S. Ehrlich: Thailand's Earthquake Survivor
Russell Brown Ponders The South East Asian Disaster - In approaching a disaster of such unfathomable magnitude as the present one, I guess it's natural to look for your own. There are, as far as I am aware, two published eyewitness accounts of the Asian tsunami by western journalists... See... Public Address 30/12/04 - Tsunami
UNICEF Details Scale of Tsunami Tragedy
Eye Witness: Richard Ehrlich Reports On Tsunami Disaster - BANGKOK, Thailand Bloated corpses floated off the coast and littered Thailand¹s beaches on Tuesday (Dec. 28) where the government said more than 1,500 people, many of them foreign tourists, drowned and 1,000 disappeared after Asia¹s underwater earthquake sucked countless victims out to sea. See... Thailand's Tsunami Death-Toll Rising
ALSO: MFAT Tsunami Update 6 At 1100 Weds 29 December 04
Tsunami Appeal: UNICEF Details Urgent And Widespread Need For Aid - UNICEF is rushing relief assistance to the countries hardest hit by massive ocean flooding following Sundays earthquake, working to meet the urgent needs of hundreds of thousands of people who survived the tsunamis See... UNICEF Calls For Aid To Tsunami-Struck Countries
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New Zealanders Urged To Contribute To South-East Asian Disaster - Oxfam is appealing for $500,000 from the New Zealand public to help prevent the spread of disease and save the lives of those most in need in the wake of the Boxing Day quake. See... Tsunami Appeal: Oxfam praises generous Kiwis
TO HELP: Phone World Vision 0800 80 2000 - Oxfam 0800 600 700 or 0800 400 666 - Red Cross 0900 31 100 - TEAR Fund 0800 800 777 - Caritas 0900 4 11 11 - Christian World Service 0800 74 73 72.
Over One Million Affected By Boxing Day Tsunami
New Zealander Killed In South-East Asian Tsunami - One New Zealander has been confirmed dead in the tsunami that struck south east and southern Asia last evening, Foreign Minister Phil Goff said. See... New Zealander killed in Asian tsunami and MFAT Death in Phuket: Mrs Leone Cosens
NZ REACTION:
- NZ Govt - Airforce relief flight heads for Asia
- Australian Defence - Indonesia:Australia Continues Post-Tsunami Support
- United Nations - UN Mobilizes To Aid Asian Tsunami Survivors
- Oxfam - Oxfam cargo plane leaving for disaster zone
- MFAT Update - MFAT Tsunami Update 5 At 2200 28 December
- TEAR Fund - TEAR Fund launches emergency tsunami appeal
- Aceh Support Group - NZ Achehnese community fear for safety of families
- Indonesia Human Rights - Minister Asked To Ensure Aid Reaches Aceh
A Swarm Of Earthquakes Kills 12,000 + On Boxing Day
Tsunami: Bay Of Bengal Nations Struggle To Cope - Hundreds of thousands abandoned their flooded homes and fled to higher ground after the worst tsunami in living memory swamped the islands in the Bay of Bengal - killing tens of thousands of people. See... Over One Million Affected By Tsunami
UN Body Details Quake and Tsunami Disaster - India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Thailand and, Somalia Earthquake and Tsunami: OCHA Situation Report No. 4 See... Latest OCHA Earthquake and Tsunami Report
INT REACTION:
- Sri Lanka Govt - Assistance sought to help victims
- United Nations - UN Launches Flash Appeal
- Australia Defence - Australian Defence Helps Sumatra Victims
NZ REACTION:
- MFAT - MFAT: Asia tsunamis. Update 5pm 27.12.04
- Oxfam - Oxfam mobilises in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and India
- Christian World Service - South Asians plea for assistance
- Caritas - Caritas Appeals For Victims Of Tsunami
- TEAR Fund - TEAR Fund Launches Tsunami Emergency Appeal
- Red Cross NZ - Red Cross $60,000 to tsunami victims
- World Vision - World Vision Responds Immediately
- World Vision - World Vision Responds Immediately To Tsunami
- Oxfam - Oxfam Responds To South Asia Disaster
- Scoop - Scoop Images: The Boxing Day Swarm Of Earthquakes
- Don Brash - Tsunami Tragedy Will Touch New Zealand
- Acheh Support Group - Tsunami Tragedy In Acheh Increases Suffering
INTERNATIONAL REACTION:
- UN - Indian Ocean Countries Devastated By Tidal Waves
- ADF - Australian Defence Force Assistance To Tsunami
- TamilNet - More Than 1000 Feared Killed On Mullaitivu Coast
- State Of Acheh - State of Acheh: Press Statement on Tsunami
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