Tsunami deaths rise above 75,000

Along India's southern coast, paramedics began vaccinating 65,000 tsunami survivors in Tamil Nadu state against cholera, typhoid, hepatitis A and dysentery, said Gagandeep Singh Bedi, a government administrator.

Donations for recovery efforts came in from all parts of the globe.

The US, Australia and Japan pledged a combined US$100 million, while taxi drivers in Singapore put donation tins in their cars and volunteers in Thailand text-messaged acquaintances to give blood to the Red Cross.

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