Friday, October 14, 2005

Bloomberg.com: AsiaSri Lanka's Wickremesinghe to Speed Up Tsunami Aid (Update1)

Bloomberg.com: Asia: "Sri Lanka's Wickremesinghe to Speed Up Tsunami Aid (Update1)

Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lankan opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said he may seek an alternative to a tsunami aid accord with Tamil Tiger rebels to speed up reconstruction, if he is elected in next month's presidential election."

Thursday, October 06, 2005

All Headline News - Tsunami Relief Resulted In Millions Of Dollars Wasted - October 6, 2005

All Headline News - Tsunami Relief Resulted In Millions Of Dollars Wasted - October 6, 2005: "Tsunami Relief Resulted In Millions Of Dollars Wasted

October 6, 2005 11:01 a.m. EST

Ayinde O. Chase - All Headline News Staff Writer

London, England (AHN) - A report by the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) reveals a surplus of funds was wasted following the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster.

“Depending on how you look at it, you can say this has been the best-funded emergency in the world – or the most expensive humanitarian response in history,” a U.N. officer tells the IFRC’s World Disasters Report, published this week."

Rivalry 'Hampered' Tsunami Aid Response - Yahoo! News UK

Rivalry 'Hampered' Tsunami Aid Response - Yahoo! News UK: "Rivalry 'Hampered' Tsunami Aid Response
Sky News Wednesday October 5, 07:46 PM


The Asian tsunami relief effort was hampered by rivalries between agencies, according to the British Red Cross.The relief charity said there was no effective co-ordination and the wrong type of aid was sent. In a report into the aid response, the Red Cross said the 2004 Boxing Day disaster initially overwhelmed agencies.

But lives were not lost as they grappled to come to terms with the scale of the tragedy."

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

The World’s Most Generous Misers

The World’s Most Generous Misers: "The World’s Most Generous Misers
Tsunami reporting misrepresented U.S. giving

Extra! September/October 2005

In March 1997, a joint poll by the Washington Post, Harvard University and the Kaiser Family Foundation asked Americans which area of federal expenditure they thought was the largest. Was it Social Security (which actually constituted about a quarter of the budget)? Medicare? Military spending? Sixty-four percent of respondents said it was foreign aid—when in reality foreign aid made up only about 1 percent of total outlays (Washington Post, 3/29/97)."