A link to an article in The Times. Quite a scathing article in a number of places. In the end it is a plea to give money.
A short extract:
"The West will get bored first — yes, even of this. By the end of January, nobody will be talking much about the earthquake (with the exception of those forced to cancel winter holidays in Thailand and Sri Lanka). Whole towns and villages, sometimes entire islands, and the tourist and fishing industries which support them, their hotels but also their homes and boats, have been devastated. But look at the way the majority of the reports are from the tourist resorts, from Phuket and the southern beaches of Sri Lanka. The farther away from the tourist trail one goes, the less the developed world is interested. Hundreds die in floods in Bangladesh every year — this summer, two thirds of the country was swamped and more than 20 million people were left homeless — and few in the West are much bothered."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-159-1418301,00.htm

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