A factory owner rallies his workers - and reopens doors in Sri Lanka
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Kumar Dewapura is treating his employees as a family, vowing to rebuild their homes and replace their lost goods.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Markets reopened,  fishermen got new boats and the sea even got a cleanup on  Saturday as people toiled to undo the Asian tsunami's damage.
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Sanyo has restarted chip production at a factory that automatically stopped when a powerful earthquake hit.
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Butchers, shop keepers and restaurant owners in this devastated city opened for business on Thursday, while a traditional marketplace bustled, as tsunami survivors defiantly began to rebuild their lives.
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Organisers of a tsunami relief collection for Sri Lanka appeal for help with transport  after overwhelming donations arrive.
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Pupils and staff at a County Antrim school return to classrooms after industrial action is suspended.
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The massive retailer has reportedly renewed efforts to build its presence there.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Among the legions of traumatized Sri Lankan fishermen whose lives were ravaged by the tsunami are many who are not sure they can go back to the simple lives they and their families once led by the sea.
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Sri Lanka's president insisted Monday his government was winning the war against Tamil Tiger rebels as the island marked its 60th anniversary of independence after a bloody weekend of violence.
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Experts travel to Sri Lanka to join the aid efforts after giant waves triggered by an earthquake hit the region.
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VAKARAI, Sri Lanka  - Surveying a newly captured eastern rebel stronghold, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Saturday vowed to tame the Tamil Tiger rebels and liberate civilians, but said the door remained open to resume peace talks.
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KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka  - Soccer spectators roar with excitement as a goal is scored, children play in a nearby park as adults drink tea and an old man cycles slowly along the road. Artillery shells thunder in the distance.
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Former President Nelson Mandela opened the largest shopping center in Soweto on Thursday in a sign of the business boom that is transforming South Africa's most famous township.
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Thousands of people gave Pakistan&#39;s suspended chief justice a festive welcome when he arrived here on his latest tour mustering support for his reinstatement.
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A rally is planned in Bhopal, India, where one of the worst industrial disasters took place 20 years ago.
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More than 1,000 labourers are found by government officials on a plantation, working 14 hours a day.
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Business & money: Plant officially reopens two years after it was shut following the collapse of MG Rover.