NOTE: We have been putting many update links at the bottom of our original post on the tsunami (this was the one about the Asian bloggers).
Since that post is running very long, we’re starting a new update here. Save this permalink since all updates from Jan 6, 2005 on will go here. (For a complete chronology, go back to our first post). This update roundup will also include recent links from posts on this site.
–Here are two haunting American posts on the tsunami.
–Secretary of State Colin Powell was absolutely "shocked" at what he saw at the tsunami scene.
–Glenn Reynolds, aka InstaPundit, examines the role of the Internet in the tsunami here (and we thank him for the mention) and here (the latter with details and links on blogs trying to help raise money for relief operations).
–FREEZING DEBTS FOR TSUNAMI STRUCK COUNTRIES: The Financial Times:
The International Monetary Fund and World Bank yesterday came out in favour of a debt moratorium for the countries worst hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami. At a one-day donors’ meeting in Jakarta, total aid pledged for disaster relief doubled to nearly $5bn (€3.8bn), while rich countries and multilateral institutions offered debt relief and soft loans to the worst-hit countries, including Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
But the scale of the response has left the United Nations and international donors with the prospect of more promised cash than they can use in the coming months. At the summit, world leaders gave guarded support to the idea of delaying debt payments. The UK, now chairing the G8 group of industrialised countries, and Germany have proposed the Paris Club of creditor nations suspend debt repayments by tsunami-hit countries. Canada has already announced a unilateral moratorium.
–And the global aid push is said to be "incredible."
–If the earthquake/tsunami makes you wonder how best to handle an earthquake, here are 10 tips on what to do via The Third World View (Bangladesh).
—Oxblog’s comprehensive list of groups to whom you can donate to help tsunami victims.
–A CNN reporter covering the story recounts a haunting find…and how it made him feel as a father…and human being.
–Tsunami death toll is now 160,000.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.