2005.01.04

Key Indonesia aid airport cleared. [BBC News] The main airport in the Indonesian province of Aceh re-opens, allowing vital aid to flow again to tsunami-stricken areas. 2005.01.04

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USA to Help Rebuild Tsunami-Stricken Lives -- Powell (Reuters). Secretary of State Colin Powell says the United States will help the millions devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunami rebuild their lives, but an effort on the scale of the Marshall Plan is probably not needed. 2005.01.04

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Britons give 76 million pounds to Asian wave victims (AFP). Donations by Britons to the victims of the south Asian tidal wave disaster now total 76 million pounds, charities said. 2005.01.04

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Japan-DPRK (VOA) Prime Minister Koizumi hopes to resume negotiations with North Korea soon in the new year. 2005.01.04

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Tsunami Hero Jailed for Theft in Australia (AP). An Australian hailed as a hero for allegedly rescuing more than a dozen tsunami victims in Thailand was arrested as he returned home by police who recognized him as a suspected burglar. 2005.01.04

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Japan-Gaijin (Mainichi) Fight among third world gaijin in Roppongi ends with a homicide. 2005.01.04

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Remarkable Survival Stories Emerge.  [Radio Free Asia] Rescuers and volunteers focus on trying to get clean food, water and shelter to survivors in shattered coastal areas around the Indian Ocean. 2005.01.04

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Tsunami-USA TV (AP) American television networks dispatch their top news talent to the tsunami-hit region. 2005.01.04

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Thai Tsunami-Japanese (Kyodo) UPDATED Final death toll of Japanese who perished in the Thai tsunami likely to be between 30 and 40. 2005.01.04

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Thousands Queue for Water in Aceh, Aid Blocked (Reuters). Hungry and filthy, Indonesians queue for wate rby the thousands as aid deliveries to the tsunami-ravaged Aceh province hit new snags. 2005.01.04

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Man charged in London for hoax tsunami e-mails (AFP). A 40-year-old man has pleaded guilty to sending hoax e-mails to friends and relatives of people missing since the Asian tsunami a week ago claiming they were dead. 2005.01.04

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Four Indonesians Rescued by Indian Coast Guard (AP). Four Indonesian fishermen have been found alive on a boat that drifted north to a remote Indian Ocean island after a tsunami devastated their homeland. 2005.01.04

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USA intensifies its role in relief. [Christian Science Monitor ] U.S. aid is proving crucial - and may lift America's image. 2005.01.04

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Tsunami Steals a Generation and the Future (Reuters). It took just a few seconds for Shiva Shankari, like her village, to lose her future. 2005.01.04

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Blog 3: Destruction on India's Coast. [Radio Free Asia] Indian government officials say the country's biggest relief effort in history has been launched in devastated Tamil Nadu. RFA reporter Pema Ngodup is in the region, providing his impressions. 2005.01.04

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ROK president to replace six ministers in reshuffle (AFP). South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun is to conduct a cabinet reshuffle to replace six ministers. 2005.01.04

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