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...CLOSED. The BANGKOK METRO, for a week of safety tests and driver retraining, following a crash at the Thailand Cultural Center station that injured more than 130 people; in Bangkok. The accident, which came six months after the $2.75 billion subway system opened, occurred during morning rush hour when an empty train smashed into a train crowded with 700 passengers. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra defended the system as the world's "most advanced and sophisticated...
WHAT KIND OF HELP IS NEEDED NOW? While immediate relief needs are being addressed, long-term development work--rebuilding schools, making microloans to rejuvenate businesses, providing trauma counseling--has barely begun. Large international charities with development projects in places like India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia include Oxfam, CARE, Save the Children, World Vision and the International Rescue Committee. "Emergency relief is sexy, but people need sewers and roads and health clinics," says Daniel Borochoff, president of the American Institute of Philanthropy...
...that reason alone, a much published and reproduced photograph taken Jan. 2 in Patong, in southern Thailand is unsavory. Two men, beers in hand, stand on a sandy beach in the tropical sunshine, hard at work on their respective tans. But there is something deeply disturbing about the image. Behind the tourists is a massive pile of debris, a jarring reminder of the tragic tsunami that swept through South Asia—and tens of thousands of lives—on Dec. 26. In the aftershock of this cataclysmic disaster, with a death toll expected to surpass...
...There is no major drama here," says Stephan Jooris of M?decins Sans Fronti?res in Rangoon, who estimates that about 90 Burmese were killed by the tsunami, in contrast to more than 5,000 dead in neighboring Thailand. "People think we're lying. I can't explain it, but it's the truth...
...north-south fault line near Sumatra, sending the strongest waves to the east and west. According to computer models done by scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii, the waves that struck Burma, which lies mostly north of the fault, were much weaker than those that hit Thailand and Sri Lanka. "If the fault line had been running east-west, there could have been considerably more damage to Burma," says Jason Ali, a geoscientist at the University of Hong Kong. The small, rocky islands and coral reef that shield much of the country's coastline may have also...