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...Paris headquarters of cementmaker Lafarge Group on Dec. 26, the devastation ran deep. The firm had a plant in Lho Nga, Indonesia, 25 km west of Banda Aceh, perilously close to the earthquake's epicenter off Sumatra. A killer wave destroyed the plant's 35 buildings as well as a seaside complex that housed 100 local employees and their families. As of last week, Lafarge had accounted for only 294 of its 625 workers based at the plant. The company responded quickly. A day after the disaster, a Lafarge team based in Indonesia flew search, rescue and medical personnel...
...disaster: 52 known dead and 637 still missing - donated five trucks and made equipment loans and other contributions valued at $2 million, all of which went to Indonesia for reconstruction in northern Sumatra. "This is a big catastrophe for people living in the region and it's our way of showing our involvement," says Scania chief financial officer Jan Gurander. Mobile-phone company Vodafone Group donated $1.7 million to relief groups, and $187,000 to Télécoms sans Frontières, which installs mobile networks in areas blighted by disaster and war, and MapAction, which performs satellite...
COLIN POWELL, Secretary of State, after traveling to Indonesia to survey the tsunami damage in Banda Aceh...
...million. Japan offered $500 million, Germany topped that with a $660 million pledge, and Australia weighed in with $810 million. Arab commentators engaged in some self-criticism, asking why Norwegians and Belgians offered so much more than Arabs to help Asia's suffering Muslims. During his visit to Indonesia, the hardest-hit country and the world's most populous Muslim nation, Secretary of State Colin Powell could not let pass an opportunity for self-congratulation. "I think it does give the Muslim world and the rest of the world an opportunity to see American generosity, American values in action...
...lower and upper arm is barely held together by a few sinewy strings of muscle and flesh. Though paint is peeling off the walls and a layer of grime covers many of the hospital's windows, Sigli's only hospital is fairly clean compared with many others in Indonesia's remote provinces. There are small victories. A young girl is wheeled in for surgery, her left foot severed at the heel. The doctors fear they may have to remove her leg at the calf to stop the infection from spreading, but after a massive cleaning and huge doses of antibiotics...