Quake to hurt Sri Lanka's economy
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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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Severe weather in Sri Lanka disrupts efforts to help more than one million people affected by the tsunami.
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Sri Lanka braced for more violence as suspected Tamil rebels set off bomb attacks in the capital on the eve of celebrations to mark independence day, officials said Sunday.
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With 90 percent of a Sri Lankan village's population employed directly or indirectly in fishing, its economy has ground to a halt, residents say.
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A deadly new chapter in Sri Lanka's  two-decade civil war is putting the lives of thousands of  civilians at risk and derailing efforts to rebuild areas  devastated by the 2004 tsunami, a senior UN envoy said.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - One of the most powerful  earthquakes in history hit southern Asia Sunday, unleashing a  tsunami on Sri Lanka and India and swamping tourist isles in  Thailand and the Maldives to kill almost 9,500 people.
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Thailand's Finance Ministry said Wednesday that the devastation wreaked by deadly tidal waves which slammed into the nation's southwestern coast will likely shave 0.3 of a percentage point from gross domestic product growth in 2005.
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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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The world&#39;s biggest earthquake in 40 years hit south Asia Sunday, unleashing a tsunami that crashed into Sri Lanka and India and swamped tourist isles in Thailand
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Sri Lanka bears the brunt of Sunday's sea surges with nearly 11,000 dead and up to a million displaced.
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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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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - One of the most powerful  earthquakes in history hit southern Asia Sunday, unleashing a  tsunami on Sri Lanka and India and swamping tourist isles in  Thailand and the Maldives to kill more than 7,800 people.
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Sri Lanka on Wednesday pulled out of their cricket tour of New Zealand in the wake of the tsunami disaster that wreaked havoc across the South Asian countries including this island nation over the weekend.
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Some 200,000 workers in the tourism business in the six southern provinces that have been hardest hit by the deadly tsunami on Sunday are facing the bleak prospect of losing their jobs, according to Sontaya Kunplome, the tourism and sports minister.
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NEW YORK - The devastation in southern Asian areas hit by tidal waves this weekend had far less of an economic impact than it might have, given the extreme poverty of many of the regions.
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HELICOPTERS are urgently required in Sri Lanka, with relief workers and supplies unable to reach many parts of the devastated country because of the collapse of the local transport system.
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Shares in Indonesia slip as the government warns that rebuilding costs after the tsunami will be double what had previously been estimated