TSUNAMI IMPACT: Last Chance for Gov’t and Tigers to Work Jointly

Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga's wish for the traditional Sinhala and Tamil New Year, which fell on Apr. 14, was that the devastating tsunami would finally bring unity in her divided nation.

TSUNAMI IMPACT-SRI LANKA: New Year Brings Little Cheer to Survivors

The Sinhala and Hindu New Year that fell on Thursday is a season well known for good cheer and festivity. But T A Somawathi, a survivor of the Dec. 26 tsunami that left more than 31,000 Sri Lankans dead and an additional 200,000 still displaced, will have none of that.

TSUNAMI IMPACT: Grand Promises of Aid Fail to Materialise

When U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was asked about the sluggish flow of concrete aid to tsunami-affected countries more than three months after the massive devastation, he told reporters: "Pledges are good, but cash is better."

TSUNAMI IMPACT: Lightning Did Strike Twice And Fear Now Grips Nias

''The government told us the next earthquake is 150 years away if at all. But look we have one big one every 100 days and many smaller ones everyday,'' said Rusli Gege, 72, owner of Lagundri Holiday Cottage, now abandoned and left to rot under the sun and rain.

TSUNAMI IMPACT: Sirens, Loudspeakers To Be Used for Killer Wave Warnings

Tourists heading to the beaches of Patong on this popular resort island are being exposed to something more than the pleasant sound of waves rolling off the Andaman Sea and crashing on the shore.

TSUNAMI-IMPACT: Coral Reef Rescue Underway in Thailand

On a beach alive with tropical delights as smooth white sand washed by calm turquoise waters, an European like Bas Toeter cuts an odd figure in a T-shirt, shorts and wide-brimmed hat.

TSUANAMI IMPACT: Mental Health of Aceh Women Survivors Overlooked

Over a 100 days have passed since the Dec. 26 tsunami killer waves struck, wiping out over 290,000 lives. Though bodies have been cleared away and the homeless have found other places to live, the mental health of women tsunami survivors in the worst hit Indonesian province of Aceh remains precarious.

TSUNAMI IMPACT: 100 Days Later, Human Rights Still Elusive

While the transition from relief to recovery might be in full gear 100 days after the Dec. 26 tsunami ripped through the Indian Ocean coastline killing over 290,000 people, activists have revealed that governments are not paying much attention to the human rights concerns of survivors of the killer waves.

TSUNAMI IMPACT: 100 Days Later And Still Living in Limbo Zones

It's a hundred days since Asia's devastating Dec. 26 tsunami and communities across the region are trying to rebuild and heal. In the face of tragedy, Sri Lankans have always looked towards religion as an antidote to the battered national psyche.

INDONESIA: After Tsunami, Acehnese Women Lead the Way Home

''Home sweet home.'' This motto explains many tsunami victims' desire to return to their homes, even if they have been levelled in the December disaster.

ENVIRONMENT-UAE: Quake Fears Lead to Call for Action

The Asian tsunami the day after Christmas, the devastating earthquake in Iran last month, and occasional tremors in the United Arab Emirates have led to calls for monitoring systems and disaster-management plans in the country.

TSUNAMI-IMPACT: Communities Play Vital Role in Disaster Mitigation

Although science and technology offer time-tested early warning systems to detect deadly tsunamis, countries that share the Indian Ocean are learning fast about the pivotal role the public and local communities can play to save lives.

TSUNAMI IMPACT: New Quake Sees Relief Agencies Rushing Aid to Island

Relief agencies are scrambling to make their way to the Indonesian island of Nias, where over 2,000 people are feared dead, after a massive overnight earthquake off the coast of Indonesia spread fear and panic across Asia that another killer tsunami was on its way.

ENVIRONMENT: Tsunami Danger Receding, but Not Gone, Experts Say

Millions of people in the Indian Ocean region, still reeling from the devastating waves that battered coastlines the day after Christmas, are anxiously awaiting confirmation that a massive quake in Sumatra will not trigger a similar disaster.

TSUNAMI IMPACT: An Easter Sunday Reminder of the Dead

It's Easter Sunday morning, three months since the Asian tsunami killed over 30,000 Sri Lankans the day after Christmas. And Ivar Dilama wants to be closer to God.

INT’L WOMEN’S DAY: Tsunami Survivors Need Gender-Sensitive Care – Groups

Against the backdrop of International Women's Day, rights activists are calling for more gender-sensitive programmes to help women and girls who survived the Indian Ocean tsunami.

TSUNAMI IMPACT: Hopes of a Family Washed Away by the Killer Waves

It is full moon night again and the celestial light is shining on Muzhukutturai, a small fishing hamlet in Cudallore district of coastal Tamil Nadu in southern India.

TSUNAMI IMPACT: New Zoning Rules Confuse Sri Lanka Survivors

When forty seven year old businessman Anura Ananda opens the front doors of his drapery shop, he is now greeted with a clear view of waves lapping the beach.

TSUNAMI IMPACT: Stop Cutting Trees to Rebuild Aceh – Conservationists

Environmentalists are opposing the plan of the government to cut down more trees in one of the largest national parks in Indonesia to help rebuild tsunami-ravaged Aceh.

TSUNAMI IMPACT: EU Advised to Keep its Junk

Environmental and development groups say European Union proposals to send European fishing boats due to be scrapped to tsunami-hit areas could do more harm than good.

TSUNAMI IMPACT: For Phuket Vendors, It’s an Uphill Struggle to Restart

With the identification of the dead almost complete and most of the bodies of foreign tourists repatriated to their respective countries, reconstruction, now, is moving at a frantic phase on the beachfronts of tsunami-hit Phuket island in southern Thailand. But many of the locals here are unhappy.