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Monday, January 3, 2005.
Posted: 13:03 AEDT
Hungry and sick survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami are waiting for aid in growing desperation as a multinational aid operation tries to reach remote towns devastated by the waves.
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Posted: 13:00 AEDT
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is urging Queensland doctors to donate drugs rather than money to help the victims of the Asian tsunami.
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Posted: 12:04 AEDT
The Melbourne Football Club is still in shock over the disappearance of player Troy Broadbridge in Thailand.
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Posted: 12:03 AEDT
There are unconfirmed reports that a 13th Australian has been found dead among the victims of Asia's tsunamis.
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Posted: 11:43 AEDT
The Indian Army says planes have managed to drop supplies of food and water to all the inhabited islands in the Andaman and Nicobar chain.
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Posted: 11:31 AEDT
Canada's Federal Government has doubled its aid to victims of the Asian tsunami tragedy to $C80 million (about $A85 million), after Prime Minister Paul Martin held emergency disaster relief talks.
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Posted: 10:48 AEDT
Medical aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) has put its tsunami emergency appeal on hold.
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Posted: 10:22 AEDT
The Australian National University (ANU) has contacted by email over 500 international students since the tsunami crisis.
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Posted: 10:20 AEDT
The tsunami disaster has sparked debate among religious leaders as to whether the destruction and loss of life was an act of God.
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Posted: 09:34 AEDT
United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan will be in Indonesia on Wednesday and is expected to tour the Aceh region as well as go to Sri Lanka - two areas hardest hit by the tsunami disaster.
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Posted: 09:23 AEDT
A 10-year-old British girl saved 100 other tourists from the Asian tsunami by warning them a giant mass of water was on its way after learning about the phenomenon weeks earlier at school, a newspaper reported.
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Posted: 08:33 AEDT
The Australian Red Cross says long-term planning of its relief effort for the victims of the tsunami disaster is now underway.
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Posted: 08:19 AEDT
The Indonesian Ambassador to Australia has thanked Australians for giving generously to help victims of the tsunami but has encouraged people to give more if they can.
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Posted: 08:06 AEDT
A 40-year-old British man has been accused of emailing the relatives of people missing since the tsunami tragedy to tell them their loved ones had died.
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Posted: 07:36 AEDT
Thai authorities have revised down the number of people missing in last week's tsunami disaster but still say the final death toll will be close to 8,000 people.
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Posted: 07:00 AEDT
Starving people are besieging helicopters carrying the first aid to remote Indonesian towns as frustration grows at the slowness of help a week after tsunamis devastated Indian Ocean coastlines.
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Posted: 06:20 AEDT
The Australian Government is preparing to provide more emergency relief support to the Thai and Indonesian governments.
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Posted: 06:09 AEDT
The relief effort after the Asian tsunami disaster is falling behind in Indonesia because of remoteness and heavy damage in affected areas, a senior UN official says.
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Posted: 01:16 AEDT
Heavy rains and fresh floods disrupted aid to Asia's tsunami-hit villages on Sunday as the United Nations refugee agency started a 400-tonne airlift as part of a $US2 billion relief operation to save millions struggling to survive.
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Posted: 00:11 AEDT
A memorial service has been held on the Thai island of Phuket for victims of last week's devastating tsunami.
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Posted: 00:00 AEDT
Indonesian troops killed three separatist rebels in the tsunami-ravaged province of Aceh, the military said on Sunday, further discrediting an apparent ceasefire meant to be in place to aid relief efforts.
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Posted: 00:00 AEDT
US Navy helicopters on Sunday began airlifting disaster survivors from an isolated stretch of coastline on the west coast of Indonesia's tsunami-devastated Aceh province, a spokesman said.
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Posted: 00:00 AEDT
Australian medical teams in Indonesia's Aceh Province have begun treating their first patients wounded in last week's tsunami disaster.
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Sunday, January 2, 2005.
Posted: 22:22 AEDT
Sri Lanka's tsunami toll has risen to nearly 30,000, the Government said on Sunday, upping the number of dead by over 1,000.
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Posted: 20:12 AEDT
India has raised the number of people killed or feared killed in last week's tsunami to 14,488, up by more than 1,700 since Saturday evening's estimate.
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