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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia I don't know how we keep pulling it off, but once again we've managed to outdo ourselves in inactivity since I last sent an update. Christmas and New Year's have come and gone, and what have we done? Well, we read a lot. Oh, and there was food, we ate quite a bit. I had some pretty good fries, once. Laynni seems to enjoy the...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia My journey commenced on a white-knuckled, alarmingly bumpy flight from Bangkok to Penang, Malaysia. I had just finished spending an amazing couple days with Tasha on Ko Samet, Thailand. We discovered Nuan Cove with tiny little bungalows perched in the woods, overlooking the beach. Our adorable little abode was mere footsteps...
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EdCone.com (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Laura Hendrix's adventures in malaria have taken her to Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Adjusting to life under sharia law and realities like Dengue fever is a big job...but as the final picture of the post shows, she's found some of the...
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The Washington Business Journal (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
CHF International just delivered a new vocational training center in Banda Aceh, Indonesia -- the epicenter and region hardest hit by the 2004 tsunami.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
SILVER SPRING, Md., Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Construction has just been completed on a new state-of-the-art vocational training center in Banda Aceh, Indonesia -- the epicenter and region hardest hit by the 2004 tsunami -- which...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
SILVER SPRING, Md., Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Construction has
just been completed on a new state-of-the-art vocational training center in
Banda Aceh, Indonesia -- the epicenter and region hardest hit by the 2004
tsunami -- which will enable city residents to take a major step forward
towards economic recovery. Made possible by a US$ 4.8 million grant from
Chevron Corporation, in collaboration...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
... hear a long-winded diatribe about the horrors of our supposed twelve-hour bus ride from Medan to Banda Aceh. Sorry, not this time. I mean, don't worry, you still get the long-winded diatribe (whew!), but the rest may surprise you. Envision: roomy, reclining seats with foot rests, individually adjusted air-con and reading lights, an on-board crapper and (gasp!) eleven and a half hours from...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
... the village of Kuala Bubon were being designed and built, plans were being laid for the road from Banda Aceh to Meulaboh, west Aceh, funded to the tune of €158 million by USAid, the American government's international relief and development agency.The highway route that will scythe through the village could mean the demolition of up to 50 of the houses that were built with some €945,000...
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
... in Yong Kha area in Shan state some five years ago. Similar projects have also been carried out in Banda Aceh of Indonesia and in Afghanistan. Pol Lt-Gen Krissana said Thai officials and their Burmese counterparts plan to launch the joint project by the end of the year. The Ban Yin area is inhabited by the Pa-o, an ethnic minority, and was for decades a major opium-growing area. The ONCB...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
... initial reports from Jakarta and led what came to be a 20-person team in the battered city of Banda Aceh. AP's tsunami coverage won the National Headliner Award for Spot News and the Associated Press Managing Editors' Award for Deadline Reporting in 2005.A native of western England, Brummitt joined the AP in Jakarta shortly after receiving a degree in Indonesian literature from the School...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
... initial reports from Jakarta and led what came to be a 20-person team in the battered city of Banda Aceh. AP's tsunami coverage won the National Headliner Award for Spot News and the Associated Press Managing Editors' Award for Deadline Reporting in 2005.A native of western England, Brummitt joined the AP in Jakarta shortly after receiving a degree in Indonesian literature from the School...
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Dhimmi Watch (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Another "you can't make this stuff up" moment from Aceh. "Aceh officers get into fisticuffs over 'un-Islamic' dance," from the Jakarta Post, August 8:A fight broke out between members of the Banda Aceh public order agency and the province's sharia...
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Relief Web (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Source: The Irish Red Cross Society Org type(s): Non-governmental Organization Closing date: 29 Aug 2008 Location: Indonesia (Banda Aceh) Sector(s): Water & Sanitation
