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ASIA: ‘Post-Disaster Psychosocial Support a Must for Children’
By B. C. Lee
BANGKOK - When disaster strikes, acute stress disorders, especially among children, may follow. Yet the need for early psychosocial interventions is often overlooked, if not ignored.
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SRI LANKA: Five Years after Tsunami, Many Still without Shelter
By Amantha Perera
KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka - "We have been here for almost five years. So many promises have been made, but very few have been kept," complains Mohideen Nafia, 22, one of the survivors of the 2004 Asian tsunami still living in a temporary facility in the coastal town of Kalmunai, located 300 kilometres east of the capital, Colombo.
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INDIA: Rural Communities Turn to Traditional Climate Mitigation
By Keya Acharya
MADURAI, India - In Tamilnadu, southern India, and Uttar Pradesh, northern India, villagers have revived ancient systems of storing surface and groundwater that are putting them in a good position to contend with today’s changing climate.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: India’s Monsoon Predictions More Uncertain
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - Predicting the monsoons - a risky proposition despite the deployment of satellites and supercomputers - appears to have become iffier thanks to climate change.
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EAST TIMOR: UN Helps to Mitigate Disaster Risk
By Matt Crook
DILI - Disasters happen regularly in East Timor, but until now, the institutions called on to deal with them have struggled to effectively react to seasonal events that impact thousands of Timorese lives every year.
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SRI LANKA: Spinning Livelihoods From Coir Fibre
By Feizal Samath
HAMBANTOTA - Sriyawathie wades into a murky, greenish pond in this coastal district and scoops out coconut husks that have been left in the water for retting before being dried and spun into coir rope, matting and brooms.
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PAKISTAN: Quake Survivors Await Relief
By Beena Sarwar
KARACHI - Poor infrastructure and communications are making it difficult for rescue and relief teams to reach scattered hamlets in the mountainous plateau area affected by the 6.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Pakistan’s Balochistan province at dawn on Wednesday.
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BURMA: Cyclone Relief - Distrust of Junta Deters Donors
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Burma’s military regime is struggling to attract international aid nearly six months after the powerful Cyclone Nargis tore through the country’s Irrawaddy Delta. The financial shortfall has more to do with distrust of the junta than donor fatigue.
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VIETNAM: Heeding Climate Change Warnings
By Helen Clark
HANOI - With a predicted sea level rise of one metre by 2100, Vietnam may end up being one of the nations worst hit by climate change. Such a rise would affect five percent of the land area, 11 percent of the population and seven percent of the agriculture.
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RIGHTS-NEPAL: 'Inter-Country Child Adoption Policy Weak'
By Mallika Aryal
KATHMANDU - When reports in the Nepali and international media exposed a market in orphans, and the taking away from this country of children without the consent of biological parents, the government responded with a ban on inter-country adoptions.
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ASIA: Calamities, Climate Change - Reprieve for Mangroves
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Lack of access to military-ruled Burma has not stopped a global environmental body from setting its sights on the country’s Irrawaddy Delta, which was devastated by a powerful cyclone in early May. Rehabilitating mangroves is the draw.
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BURMA: Females Hit Worst by Cyclone Nargis - Report
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Nearly three months after the powerful Cyclone Nargis tore through Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta, it has emerged that the majority of those who died in the devastated area were women.
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BURMA: ASEAN Steps in Where Others May Not Tread
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Four weeks after Cyclone Nargis swept through the populous Irrawaddy Delta in Burma, a regional effort to help the victims is slowly grinding into shape.
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As time passes since Asia's killer tsunami wiped out close to 290,000 people from Sumatra to Somalia, communities continue their efforts to rebuild their lives. The tsunami struck on Dec. 26, 2004, the day after Christmas. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, said it was an ''unprecedented global catastrophe'' that required an ''unprecedented global response''. And the world responded.

Some aspects of the relief effort have gone well, some have not. IPS stands committed to our journalistic duty to provide our readers with insight into how communities are piecing themselves back together after the horror.