In a public high school, students regularly take part in disaster simulations and get ready to evacuate ahead of a possible ...

Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ago, Teuku Hafid Hududillah has spent his adult life ...

People have started gathering in prayer and are visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the ...

Former rebel commander Muharram Idris once led 3,000 men to fight Indonesia's army in separatist Aceh, but now serves as a ...

Experts said they were “blind” to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Twenty years later, working toward a world without tsunami deaths is a challenge.

The brunt of the tsunami was felt in the Indonesian province of Aceh, where 170,000 people perished. Sri Lanka, India and ...

Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has ...

Residents of Indonesia Aceh province in the northern tip of Sumatra Island paid tribute on Thursday to relatives family members and friends who lost ...

Tearful mourners prayed Thursday as ceremonies began across Asia to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when ...

On 26 December 2004, Amber Owen, 28, from Milton Keynes, was on holiday in Phuket when a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck ...

Tamil Nadu commemorates the victims of the devastating 2004 tsunami, as Governor RN Ravi and local fishermen pay tribute on ...

The disaster that claimed 230,000 lives in Southeast Asia in December 2004 triggered an international awareness campaign. In ...