JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A ship carrying more than 100 passengers and crew sunk off Indonesia's Sumatra island on Thursday in bad weather, a naval spokesman said. More …
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Call for spectacles to assist with medical relief work in Indonesia
Friday, May 5th, 2006by Christine McCafferty
Thursday, 4 May, 2006
Humanitarian work has once again drawn Gisborne nurse Margaret Thorpe back to the poverty-stricken islands of Indonesia.
Mrs Thorpe is returning to the isolated islands of Nias and Tello, two of the areas hit hard by the Boxing Day tsunami and another earthquake that struck months later. Full text …
