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Tsunami Hotel open again

Tsunami Hotel all set to ride the surf again
Published: Tuesday, 27 December, 2005, 09:30 AM Doha Time
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s ‘Tsunami Hotel’, destroyed by its namesake a year ago, reopened on Christmas Day, hoping that the surf will bring back much needed holidaymakers.
Lee Blackmore, British co-owner of the Tsunami Hotel in the eastern coastal village of […]



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Irish News Service Unison

Peter Apps
in Colombo
MANY residents of Sri Lankan fishing communities have had to start rebuilding inland in case of further tsunamis, but a threatened return to civil war could yet again displace them. Some residents are now closer to ceasefire lines that will become battlefields if the 2002 truce fails, amid a string of attacks on […]



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News Arugam Townships ….

The Tsunami, One Year Later: More Than A Million Still Homeless in Sri Lanka PDF Print E-mail
Written by Kannan - Holland
Friday, 30 December 2005
Memorials are being held across the world this week to mark the devastating tsunami that hit South Asia one year ago. […]



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AbaY bridge funded by USAID

Washington D.C. 31 December (Asiantribune.com): The United States government has provided $134.6 million in 2005 in assistance to communities in Sri Lanka for relief and reconstruction efforts, economic assistance to restore livelihood, toward infrastructure projects and technical assistance to mitigate the effects of the tsunami devastation, it was announced here by America’s official overseas economic […]



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Sri Lanka to remember tsunami dead with vigils
Monday, 26 December , 2005, 09:36
Peraliya (Sri Lanka): Sri Lanka will pay emotional tribute on Monday to an estimated 31,000 people killed by the Asian tsunami exactly a year ago with a two-minute silence and coast-to-coast candlelight vigils.
As officials launch a […]



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Free AbaY Lunch …..

Peraliya (Sri Lanka), Dec 26: Sri Lanka‘s President Mahinda Rajapakse today led the nation in paying homage to the victims of the tsunami disaster and pledged to introduce a “new dynamism” in reconstruction work which he admitted was moving slowly.
After observing two-minute silence to show respect to an estimated 31,000 people who perished in the […]



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Tsunami Hotel reopened

THE building, its paint still drying, was brand new - but the battered sign far older. Return to Paradise, it said.
Last Christmas it hung from a flimsy shack on the narrow, sandy archipelago of Ao Ton Sai on Thailand‘s Phi Phi island.
Yesterday the bar owner nailed it back up on his new, sturdy concrete structure. […]



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AbaY Bridge Press Release

Washington — One year after the devastating December 2004 tsunami and earthquake that struck the Indian Ocean region, the United States has provided emergency services as well as economic assistance to restore livelihoods to the people in affected South Asian countries.
The U.S. government has provided more than $150 million in assistance to communities in Sri […]



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Tsunami fishermen struggle to cope

By Sanjoy Majumder […]



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Schwieriger Neustart

Die Tourismus-Industrie Sri Lankas hat die Folgen des Tsunamis noch immer nicht verkraftet
von Claudia Piuntek
Colombo - Ranjith Seneviratna schlängelt sich mit einem vollen Tablett an den Tischen vorbei. Der Besitzer des kleinen Strandrestaurants in Hikkaduwa serviert seinen Gästen frische Fruchtsäfte und eisgekühltes Bier. Eigentlich dürfte es “Ranjith‘s […]



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Tsunami Hotel reopened

A YEAR after giant waves crashed ashore in eastern Sri Lanka and swept away the 13-room Tsunami Hotel, the resort reopened this week under the same name – a testament, its owner says, to the spirit of survival.
On December 26, when the tsunami hit, British-born owner Lee Blackmore was in Hong Kong.
The resort – popular […]



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South Coast Register Australia

South Coast Register Australia
Memorial for tragedy
By GLENN ELLARD
Thursday, 29 December 2005
A RIP carried a bouquet of flower into the water at Cudmirrah Beach on Monday as a group gathered to quietly reflect on the events of a year earlier as a tsunami wreaked devastation on parts of Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
Included in the group were […]



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