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But not only English specialists do work for this, also many from other countries!
According to press reports I think, it needs up to 6 months (I am not a specialist).
I hope for the concerned people, it does not need still more time.
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Cabinet considers huge aid package
Money for businesses, families hit by tsunami
AMPA SANTIMATANEEDOL
The cabinet will today consider a multi-billion baht financial assistance package to help people and businesses affected by the Dec 26 tsunamis.
Deputy Prime Minister Suwat Liptapanlop, in charge of supervising relief efforts, said families of each foreign visitor killed, injured or missing would receive 30,000 baht from the state. The Tourism Authority of Thailand would also pay the expenses of those foreigners searching for missing relatives.
Families of Thais who died will also get 30,000 baht but this figure will be doubled if the dead person is the family head. Compensation amounts for families of missing Thais have yet to be finalised.
Currently, relatives of the missing can claim compensation once they have been confirmed as disappeared for three months. Assistance for the families of about 3,000 missing Thais will come from the annual budget of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation.
Each of more than 27,000 small marine farming businesses affected will receive 20,000 baht. The compensation rate is for small- and medium-sized entrepreneurs. Over two billion baht will also go to owners of damaged fishing vessels.
The Labour Ministry will spend 116 million baht on employing for one month 22,000 people whose workplaces were damaged in the disaster and 45 million baht on career training for 10,000 others.
About 3,000 beach vendors and masseurs will receive 20,000 baht each.
For large-scale operators, Mr Suwat said, the government would provide them with soft loans worth a total of 37.5 billion baht. The Government Savings Bank, the SME Bank and the Small Industry Credit Guarantee Corporation will also lend them 12 billion baht. State venture-capital funds will give out loans of five billion baht.
More than 3,500 houses worth 493 million baht will be built for those made homeless. The Education Ministry will provide 600 students with 20,000-baht scholarships and spend 489 million baht on learning materials, meals and uniforms.
Over 2.4 billion baht will be provided to government departments that used up their budgets in the tsunami relief efforts such as agencies that helped to transport people away from the devastated areas.
Mr Suwat said the cabinet would discuss where to source the requested money and, if the spending was approved, it would be made available immediately.
Budgets for the rebuilding of damaged infrastructure were not included in today's requests to cabinet.
Source: bangkokpost.com
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Thais order tests on all victims' remains
By Martin Chulov and agencies
January 11, 2005
THAILAND has ordered DNA tests be conducted on the remains of all
5300 people known to have been killed by the tsunamis, a process that will involve the exhumation of some bodies.
The move has been fuelled by fears that some of the bodies may have been wrongly identified during the early days of the massive clean-up across the southern resort area of Phuket and two nearby tourist islands.
Authorities in India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka have abandoned hope of identifying most of the dead within their borders because of the overwhelming number of bodies. It is feared the bodies could lead to outbreaks of disease if they are not buried quickly. However, the identification task in Thailand has been made easier by the comparatively smaller body count and the help of forensic experts from numerous countries, who are keen to identify their own nationals.
On Sunday, the Thai Government acknowledged that the identification process during the mayhem following the tsunami could have been haphazard.
Yesterday, a rescue official in the hardest-hit province of Phang Nga said: "All bodies who were not DNA-tested will be unearthed so DNA samples can be taken and microchips will be implanted to identify who they were."
The Australian Federal Police has sent a team of 45 victim identification officers to Phuket, where the greatest numbers of Australians were killed.
A further 50 officers are liaising with other Australian agencies from Canberra.
AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty yesterday said the final Australian death toll might be as high as 100.
So far, 22 Australians are confirmed dead, with serious concerns for 31 more.
"I would think the range would be somewhere between 30 and 100," Mr Keelty told radio 2UE. "But it's very difficult and very time-consuming to get through the material that we've got."
The toll of missing Australians has fluctuated due to the Government's inability to pinpoint precisely where the 11,000 Australians travelling through Southeast Asia over Christmas were when the tsunamis struck.
Mr Keelty said to date only about 220 post-mortem examinations had been conducted in Thailand.
"There are several thousand bodies to undergo post-mortem investigation," he said.
More than 150,000 people were killed when the waves, caused by an earthquake off Sumatra, pummelled south Asian nations on the rim of the Indian ocean, as well as nations in East Africa.
The DNA process in Thailand could take months to organise, as those bodies not already DNA-tested are unearthed in order for samples to be taken.
Those samples must then be matched against DNA taken from any relative who has reported a family member missing.
In the Indonesian province of Aceh, almost all those killed have been buried without identification in mass graves, most near the capital of Banda Aceh.
- with AAP, The Australian
Source: news.com.au
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"Foreign embassies have also set up posts around the affected region to take the details of missing nationals, and check them against dental and fingerprint records back home."
Source: bbc.co.uk
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What makes ours UN???
Is this real help now, what all people real urgently needed???
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Thai PM says quake reconstruction affordable
By Amy Kazmin in Bangkok
Published: January 3 2005 11:24 | Last updated: January 3 2005 11:24
Thaksin Shinawatra, the Thai prime minister, on Monday declared that the country did not need foreign aid to help it recover from the tsunami disaster, and could afford to pay for its own relief and reconstruction with government spending and domestic donations.
The government has already committed some US$1.5bn, with Mr Thaksin saying no resources will be spared in rehabilitating the affected region and Thailand’s crucial tourist industry once the grim search for bodies is over.
In his weekly national radio address, the premier said his government - which is widely expected to return to power after national polls on February 6 - expects economic growth to remain robust despite the severe blow inflicted on the tourist industry.
“This government believes that given cooperation from everyone, and supportive factors that fortunately have been gradually put in place, public confidence can be restored and economic strength can be sustained,” he said.
But Thailand’s finance ministry, and other economists, project that the disaster will pare Thailand’s GDP growth for 2005, even with a flood of government money to support reconstruction efforts.
JP Morgan forecasts Thai GDP growth will be reduced to 4.6 per cent this year, from an earlier projected 5 per cent, while Phatra Securities, in a report last week, estimated that GDP growth will be shaved by 0.6 percentage points, also to 5 per cent. The Finance Ministry has estimated that the disaster will shave 0.3 points from domestic product growth.
The Thai tourism industry, which accounts for 6 per cent of GDP and employs nearly 200,000 people from across the country, will suffer the greatest hit, as skittish foreign visitors cancel planned seaside holidays in the wake of the disaster.
Hotels and other tourist infrastructure on the once popular resorts of Khao Lak, which had two newly opened five star hotels, and famous Phi Phi Island were totally destroyed by the force of the wave, causing property losses that the Tourism Authority of Thailand has estimated at Bt12.8bn ($330m).
And while many hotels and beaches on the island of Phuket were only slightly damaged by the sea surge, surviving tourists’ traumatic tales of near death experiences, narrow escapes and tragic crushing loss, may well dampen global demand for beach holidays for the immediate future.
Phatra said Thailand will lose up to Bt30bn in tourist revenues this year, or around 7 per cent of the total. Nearly 20 per cent of Thailand’s foreign tourists visit southern beach resorts, with the greatest number between October and April.
“The first quarter will be a wipeout, which is pretty much most of the high season,” said Sriyan Pietersz, head of research for JP Morgan.
However, Thailand’s government has already announced nearly Bt60bn worth of financial aid to counter the lost tourist revenues, and help the rebuilding effort. Of that, Bt28bn has been allocated for a disaster relief and rebuilding fund, which will finance emergency rescue, and provide cash grants to those worst affected by the disaster.
The Bank of Thailand has also authorised an emergency soft-loan program, under which the central bank will loan money to commercial banks at 0.01 per cent interest, for loaning on to affected businesses for less than 2 per cent interest.
The government also said southern businesses would be given tax breaks on current income, while the state agricultural bank and cooperatives would annul and absorb the debts of farmers and micro-enterprise owners who died in the disaster.
“There will probably be more of these programmes announced, so what you lose in terms of tourism income, you get partly offset in terms of additional government spending,” Mr Pietersz said.
But why so many thai's say NOW everywhere, yes we need urgently international assistance?
Someone make a mistake?
>aaaaaa< - I hope that, he accepts assistance!
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Just as an update, the top 5 donors in the world for the tsunami disaster is as follows in USD:
Japan $500 Million
USA $350 Million
Britain $96 Million
Italy $95 Million
Sweden $80 Million
These are from the Governments and does not include donations from citizens of those countries. The source was Dr. Keith Sutter www.seven.com.au/sunrise
Well done!
Germany Responds to Tsunami Disaster With $660 Million
Source: New York Times
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My appologies if this is old news, just saw it myself.
Moved: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=24030
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If anyone has a picture of the boy, it might be a good idea to post it here, so it is fresh in our minds. You never know, one of us might see him on our travels.
I found a picture:
Source: TV2, tv2.no
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Boy kidnapped from Thai hospital
From correspondents in Stockholm
January 3, 2005
A 12-year-old Swedish boy injured in the tsunami that struck South-East
Asia may have been kidnapped from a hospital in Thailand, a Swedish newspaper has reported.
Swedish and Thai police are cooperating to find the boy, Kristian Walker, the Expressen reported.
"Kristian was here in the hospital. He was taken away by a man," the paper quoted Kampongsree Somprutthana, a hospital doctor, as saying.
Kristian's father, Dan Walker, and his grandfather, Daniel Walker, found several witnesses who recognised the boy who mysteriously disappeared from the hospital 30km from Khao Lak, one of Thailand's worst-hit holiday resorts.
The man he may have left with was described as "European-looking, with a moustache and a red shirt".
Two Swedish police officers are on their way to Thailand to help find Kristian, the newspaper reported, quoting police sources.
The report comes a day after the Swedish branch of non-governmental organisation Save the Children, Raedda Barnen, warned that children who ended up alone after the natural disaster were potential targets for sexual abuse by pedophiles.
"The experience from other catastrophes is that children are particularly vulnerable," Raedda Barnen managing director Charlotte Petri Gornitzka told a news conference.
There were already "indications" that surviving children had been sexually abused in Sri Lanka, one of the countries suffering worst from the tsunami, Ms Petri Gornitzka said.
Agence France-Presse
Popeye - (darren From London)
in Thailand News
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You tried, to take up contact him?
If you dont know which happened, make inquires on some sides!
But this sides are really only for concerned people - TOO MUCH TRAFFIC !!!
That is the reaso, I publish now no sides,
Sorry.
But if you need it, here you find informations:
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=23424
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=23325
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=23545
or attempt this away:
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=23404