Tamil fishing industry swept away
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More than a million fishermen in Sri Lanka's north-east may have lost their livelihoods in the  tsunami, experts say.
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Thousands of dead fish wash up in a river in the north-east Indian state of Assam river in recent days.
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PUDUKUPPAM, India -- The tragedy of this tiny fishing hamlet is its location. The Asian tsunami killed 110 of its 1,200 inhabitants, and destroyed or damaged most of its homes and boats. Yet residents of this remote coastal village 100 miles south of Chennai , the capital of Tamil Nadu state, say that more than three weeks after the disaster ...
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About 400 fishermen are feared missing after a tsunami hit coastal Andhra Pradesh, the chief secretary of the state, Mohan Kanda, told Reuters.
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Recovery efforts were under way in eastern Sri Lanka after overloaded boats carrying refugees from the rebel-held Vakarai region capsized.  At least 13 people are feared drowned, the BBC reported.  Fighting in the area in recent weeks has displaced tens of thousands of people.
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Sri Lanka's navy destroyed two suspected Tamil Tiger boats off the island's northwest coast on Friday, killing four fighters, a military official said.
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Thousands of residents of coastal Sri Lanka, both in the south and east, began to flee inland again on Thursday, following the news that there were fresh tremors off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands further east.
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The disastrous tidal waves that killed nearly 11,000 people in Sri Lanka have severely hit the island's economy, former prime minister and leader of the opposition Ranil Wickremesinghe warned.
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BAN NAMKHEM, Thailand -- This fishing village north of Thailand's Khao Lak beach no longer exists. Maitri Sayput, 47, thinks she is one of its few survivors.
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Fishermen are famed for overstating the size of their catches, but science has found an instance in which they may have underestimated their prowess: an unexpectedly big toll on saltwater fish populations.
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Sri Lanka's truce brought back tourists but the tsunami has ended the revival, writes Sanjoy Majumder.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Jamaldeen Waleed, a Sri Lankan fisherman, has lost his home for the second time. In 2004, the tsunami washed away his seaside house in Sampur. Though the tools of his trade - his boat and nets - were taken by the waves, he managed to rebuild his life again in the nearby town of Muttur.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Three years ago, a towering wave swept aside the flimsy home of A. Muttama in Nagapattinam, India, and stole away her three children. Together with her husband, Selvaraj, a fisherman, she turned her back on the sea. After two years in shelter, they moved to Madras, where he found work as a rickshaw driver.
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That people disappear is nothing very unusual. But who has ever heard of an entire handball team disappearing? That&#39;s exactly what a Sri Lankan team did when they took part in a sports exchange in Bavaria recently.
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Fisheries in many countries affected by the Asian tsunami have been decimated, says the United Nations.
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Sri Lanka faces a substantial economic blow from the Indian Ocean tsunami, the International Monetary Fund says.
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CHENNAI: The Kalpakkam Atomic Power Station may soon have another accusation to contend with, apart from the familiar one of displacement of fishermen and destruction of livelihoods.