The Director General of the Disaster Management Center (DMC), Major General (Retd.) Sampath Kotuwegoda, announced that ...

Amidst the Tsunami Exercise (IOWave25) scheduled in several coastal districts today, Director General of the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) Maj. Gen. Sampath Kotuwegoda (Retd.) yesterday revealed ...

GENEVA, Feb 4 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has outlined its role in post-tsunami Sri Lanka amid continuing efforts to distribute non-food relief items to the displaced and to finalise a ...

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel. At this time last year, we knew that there had been an earthquake and a tsunami in the Indian Ocean, but we had no idea; no idea how ...

AMPARA, April 8, (UNHCR) - Tsunami-displaced families in Ampara district in eastern Sri Lanka started getting new homes on Thursday as the UN refugee agency handed over 42 temporary houses in Kalmunai ...

KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka – The custody battle over "Baby 81" (search), the wide-eyed boy found alive among bodies and debris left by the Asian tsunami (search), goes to a Sri Lankan court on Wednesday.

All 77 tsunami early warning towers across Sri Lanka have been inactive for the past three years, Disaster Management Centre (DMC) Director General Major General Sampath Kotuwegoda revealed yesterday.

Just inland from the crashing waves on Sri Lanka's palm-fringed shores, the train slowly came to a stop on Thursday -- marking the moment a deadly tsunami hit 20 years ago. Sri Lanka's Ocean Queen ...

VINAYAGAPURAM CAMP, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Squatting under a makeshift shelter in a refugee camp in volatile east Sri Lanka, grating coconut for a curry as monsoon rains thunder down, tsunami survivor ...