Giants Raise &#36;109,000 for Tsunami Relief
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The San Francisco Giants raised &#36;109,650 for the tsunami relief effort through a two-day silent auction on the team's Web site that included a personal meeting in the dugout with Barry Bonds.
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Sri Lanka will spend about &#36;3.5 billion on rebuilding its tsunami-stricken coastline, and is counting on donors to pick up much of the bill for new towns and transport links, a government official said on Tuesday.
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A "phenomenal" two-day surge in donations in Britain has raised the equivalent of 38 million dollars for the victims of the tsunami disaster in Asia, charities announced.
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The world has pledged about $220 million to help tsunami survivors, relying on lessons from past disasters to expedite relief. WASHINGTON - Aid workers in airplanes dropped thousands of packets of noodles to Indonesians stranded in cliff-top villages.
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Tracy McGrady, Kobe Bryant, Jermaine O'Neal and four other NBA players have promised to donate &#36;1,000 for every point they score in a game later this week to help victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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A multinational force of aid workers,  military aircraft and ships descended on Asia as global tsunami  relief pledges topped $1.36 billion, but the hundreds of tons  of aid created a logistical nightmare.
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Donations from people in Scotland for the tsunami appeal are described as "amazing" by a disaster group.
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[World News]: Washington, Dec 30 : The American Red Cross, in response to its appeal for funds to help tsunami-hit victims, received about 18 million dollars in donations to its International Response Fund by today afternoon.
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Friday it had made available up to &#36;325 million in emergency lending for tsunami relief efforts in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Maldives. The Manila-based lending institution said about &#36;175 million could be diverted from existing projects in the three countries, while up to &#36;150 million in new low-cost loans could be drawn.
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The Red Cross federation, the world's biggest humanitarian group, said on Wednesday it had raised a record &#36;1.167 billion in just 30 days for victims of the Asian tsunami, enough to fund a 10-year recovery plan.
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An Indian religious leader known as "the hugging saint" &#151; because she uses hugs as a gesture of blessing &#151; pledged &#36;22 million Monday to help survivors of last month's devastating tsunami.
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Over 14,400 people have been reported killed and tens of thousands left homeless following Sunday&#39;s powerful undersea earthquake that unleashed giant Tsunami waves across the coasts of South and South-East Asia.
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LONDON  - Britons have so far raised the equivalent of nearly 30 million US dollars for victims of the tsunami disaster in Asia, matching the sum pledged a day earlier by their government, charities announced.
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The British public has donated 32 million pounds (45 million euros, 62 million dollars) for victims of the Asian tsunami, with calls to an aid line hitting a peak of almost a million an hour, charity organisers said.
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The Red Cross federation, the world's  biggest humanitarian group, said on Wednesday it had raised a  record $1.167 billion in just 30 days for victims of the Asian  tsunami, enough to fund a 10-year recovery plan.
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President Bush, who called on Americans this week to make a donation to help victims of the Asian tsunami, has contributed &#36;10,000 himself, the White House said on Wednesday.
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Three in 10 Americans say they have donated to the victims of the South Asia tsunami, an Associated Press poll found. The total of private donation is rapidly approaching the &#36;350 million pledged by the government as private citizens made many of their donations online.