Asian Tsunami Disaster News

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency is ready to help American Samoa assess and fund an island-wide siren alert system, which has to be initiated by the local government, says a top FEMA official.

FEMA Regional IX Administrator Nancy Ward and Gov. Togiola Tulafono during yesterdaya s press conference in Tafuna, where Ward was introduced.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office made no specific recommendation in its report "Poverty Determination in U.S. Insular Areas," but says that "owing to high levels of poverty," the U.S. territories "rely heavily on need-based federal programs to provide basic services." [+] The following the the text of the GAO report submitted to ...

About 60 Muslim fishermen and their families congregated in a community hall on Sri Lankaa s east coast to pray for Raj Rajaratnam after he was arrested for alleged insider trading at his New York hedge fund.

When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Indonesia earlier this year, she said: "If you want to know whether Islam, democracy, modernity, and women's rights can coexist, go to Indonesia." When she visited Pakistan recently, she was polite but much more critical in her words, basically accusing some government officials of sheltering ...

Thursday, 12 November 2009, 4:29 pm Press Release: Manukau City Council Media release 12 November 2009 $19,000 raised for tsunami relief fund Almost $19,000 has been raised by the community to help out with the tsunami relief work in the Pacific nations of Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga.

While there has been talk about relocating tsunami affected families away from the shoreline in the rebuilding efforts, the Federal Emergency Management Agency says there are no specific details yet.

Retired Postmaster and Red Cross chairman Smitty McMoore died yesterday afternoon at the LBJ Medical Center in Fagaalu after a drowning incident that occurred while he and three other members of the American Samoa Red Cross Relief Foundation were SCUBA diving off the shores of Gataivai.

Not all of the three U.S. major canneries are supportive of the American Samoa Protection of Industry, Resources and Employment bill.

A UFO research organisation has revealed that sightings went up drastically in Cumbria, shortly before an earth tremor hit the area.

The governor of the Indonesian province where a German Red Cross worker was shot on Thursday says the attack was politically motivated, and believes he knows who is responsible.

The number of confirmed cases of dengue fever in American Samoa doubled in the month following the deadly 29 September tsunami.

Big-hearted couple Colin and Rosemarie Bray have just returned from Sri Lanka after raising A 12,000 to build a new school.

A special memorial service is to be held in Auckland for those who lost their lives in the tsunami that devastated Samoa and Tonga in late September.

Vehicles as tsunami traps highlighted by the debris piled up at more than 12m elevation at Poloa, American Samoa.

Tsunami eyewitnesses are interviewed by Professors Costas Synolakis of USC and Hermann Fritz of Georgia Tech to evaluate warning, evacuation and survival strategies on Manono Island, Samoa.

Officials say a German working for the Red Cross has been shot by men on a motorcycle in Indonesia's Aceh province.

Monday, 2 November 2009, 1:53 pm Press Release: Manukau Institute of Technology Monday 2 November 2009 Six trainee chefs' have been flown to New Zealand from Samoa after damage from the recent Tsunami threatened to cut short their studies.

PHUKET CITY: On the next leg of its mission to bring books to readers around the globe, the world's oldest passenger liner will make its fifth port-of-call in Phuket later this month.

Roland Emmerich is gearing up to destroy the world yet again in his epic film 2012 , which is based on the predictions of the Mayan calendar.