Sri Lanka's tourism industry will recover faster than that of other tsunami-hit countries in Asia because the island nation has taken quick steps to revive the sector, the World Tourism Organization ...

Ever so slowly, life inches closer to normal in tsunami-ravaged Sri Lanka. That's not always a good thing. Civil war raged in the island nation until a cease-fire was brokered in 2002, and the 2004 ...

PERALIYA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lankan housewife D.W. Leelawathi can still picture the 2004 tsunami as if it were yesterday, but three years on she and thousands like her are finally back in homes ...

SEENIGAMA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - When Kushil Gunasekera returned to Seenigama in Sri Lanka's Galle district days after it was wiped out by a massive tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004, he got to work. Houses ...

In Sri Lanka, UNHCR has completed its post-tsunami role as the coordinator of a nationwide transitional shelter effort after the target of more than 58,000 shelters built by over 100 NGOs was reached.

KURUKKAL MADAM, Sri Lanka — Pulled from the mud as an infant after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, and reunited with his parents following an emotional court battle, the boy once known ...

The train disaster became a symbol of the 2004 tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka - Copyright AFP Ishara S. KODIKARA The train disaster became a symbol of the 2004 tsunami ...

At this time last year, most of us didn't know much about tsunamis. But that changed on Dec. 26, 2004, when a devastating tsunami ravaged most of the coast from Southeast Asia to East Africa, killing ...

Sri Lankan native Ananda Srilal “Lal” Liyanapathiranage never stopped finding ways to help people in his home country. After a tsunami killed tens of thousands in Indian Ocean coastal communities in ...

LankaWatch on the post-Tsunami money that was streamed into Sri Lanka and how NGOs cannot account for the money. “Almost 2 years on, most NGOs are not able account for the millions of dollars that ...