Asia rises - even as disaster tests its mettle
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A look ahead at issues and events likely to make headlines in the year to come.
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Food and relief supplies clogged airports across Asia, as the death count from Sunday&#39;s tsunami leapt to more than 114,000 in 12 nations.
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Japan&#39;s jobless rate rose unexpectedly last month while industrial output rebounded, according to data released Friday that painted a mixed picture of the health of Asia&#39;s largest economy.
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LONDON  - Britain and Australia followed Japan and the United States in pledging dramatic increases in emergency aid for victims of the tsunami disaster in Asia as the world community struggled to cope with its mushrooming fallout.
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The mercilessness of Asia&#39;s tsunami grew clearer on Thursday as worst hit Indonesia sharply raised its death toll, taking the number of fatalities around the whole Indian Ocean region above 120,000.
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Donations by Britons to the victims of the Asian catastrophe leapt above Â£32 million today in what charities called an &quot;unprecedented&quot; response.
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India raised the number of people killed or feared killed in last week's tsunami to 14,488 on Sunday, up by more than 1,700 since the previous evening's estimate.
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Most major Asian share markets rose on Thursday, lifted by banks and financials after the U.S. government outlined a plan to rescue battered bond insurers and stave off a fresh round of billion-dollar writedowns.
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FOR the past two years, Asian stock markets have been high on the favoured list for Britainâs pension and life assurance funds. Asia, particularly China, has offered the double attraction of strong current
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The death toll of tidal waves caused by a massive earthquake climbed to 10226 on Sunday in seven countries in south and east of Asia.
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The Asian tsunami disaster has been a uniquely continental catastrophe, striking hard from Thailand to the Maldives, and has stirred debate about how Asia should react as a region.
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Surging waves triggered by a huge earthquake strike several Asian  countries, killing more than 500 people.
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The international community pledged more relief efforts for tsunami-devastated South and Southeast Asian countries Thursday as the death toll from the worst earthquake and tsunamis climbed to over 115,000.
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An unprecedented global aid operation gathered steam to save survivors of Asia's tsunamis as signs crept up of disease in the overflowing morgues after the disaster that claimed more than 127,000 lives.
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Yhousands of people are reported dead around southern Asia, most by massive waves that smashed coastlines around the region after a magnitude 8.9 earthquake in Indonesia on Sunday morning, followed by reports of a strong aftershock felt in the
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The disaster in Southeast Asia touches us all. Areas, which were already very poor has been affected by incomprehensible destruction.
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Asian stocks rose on Thursday, with  an index of shares outside Japan at record levels for a second  successive day, as strong earnings from U.S. computer maker  Dell boosted shares in technology suppliers.