Refugees from Aceh Island arrive by boat on January 3 in the city of Banda Aceh after last week’s quake-triggered tidal waves devastated the area, located on the northern tip of Indonesia’s Sumatra.---Reuters

The Tsunami-hit victims are collecting relief goods in the southwestern Sri Lanka, January 2. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)

Women place candles on a tray during a New Year’s Eve vigil for tsunami victims outside a shopping mall on Phuket Island. — AP

An elephant clears what’s left of houses damaged by the December 26 Indian Ocean tsunami tragedy to make a path for vehicles in the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh yesterday. Eight days on, hungry and sick survivors are waiting for food and medicine in growing desperation as a multinational aid operation tries to reach remote towns ravaged by the waves.--Reuters

US Navy helicopter crewmen at Banda Aceh airport carry an injured man after he was evacuated from his village on Aceh’s west coast.--Reuters

A television image released by a Thai news agency over the weekend shows a Thai man carrying an 18-month-old Kazakh boy who was found alive in Khao Lak on New Year’s Day, almost a week after tidal waves ravaged Indian Ocean coastlines. The boy was discovered floating on a mattress in the sea near Thailand’s Khao Lak resort. The youngster’s parents are believed to be among the dead, and the boy was handed over to the Kazakh ambassador. — Reuters

Malawati of Aceh, Indonesia, who survived five days at sea after last week’s tsunami, is transported to a hospital upon her arrival yesterday in Penang, Malaysia. Malawati, who is in her 20s, was found floating in the Indian Ocean on Friday by a Malaysian tuna ship. — Reuters

Jamila Mary (right) a volunteer at the Gandeepam Global Foundation, prepares a list of the dead and their surviving family members as part of the relief efforts yesterday in Kullur, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. — AP

South Korean doctor Sin Sang-Do (right) treats a 9-month-old girl yesterday in a field hospital set up in the coastal village of Mirisa in southern Sri Lanka by the Korean Emergency Medical Care Team from Seoul National University. — Reuters

Thai police officers cull through IDs and credit cards found on wave-battered Phi Phi Island. The cards belong mostly to overseas tourists from countries such as France, Australia, Sweden, Britain, the United States, Italy and Germany. — Reuters

Dozens of gift shops destroyed by the tidal waves on Phi Phi island in southern Thailand. (Source: AFP)

A view of the damage on Phi Phi Island, a popular tourist resort in southern Thailand’s Krabi Province. — Reuters

Foreign tourists inspect damage caused by a tidal wave that struck Thailand’s Phuket Island on Dec. 26.— Reuters/Imaginechina

A car floating after tidal waves hit the region of Madras. (AFP）

The photo taken on Dec. 28, 2004 shows a car lifted up by tidal waves in tsunami-hit Trincomalee, a port town in northeast Sri Lanka. (Xinhua photo)

The photos taken on Dec. 26, 2004 show some foreign tourists fleeing from tidal waves on a beach in Thailand. The earthquake off the coast of Indonesia and tsunamis that swept shores from Thailand to Sri Lanka have killed at least 125,000 people, according to Reuters.(Xinhua Photo/AFP)

Residents of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, line up for petrol at a gas station on Dec. 29 after a tsunami hit the town on Sunday.—Reuters

Residents scramble for clothes and other relief
materials on Dec.28 in Nagappattinam, in the south
Indian state of Tamil Nadu. — AP

Airline passengers stand in line at the airport in Phuket, Thailand, on Dec.27 after the town was hit by massive tsunamis on Sunday.— Reuters

A traveler who was injured during a powerful tsunami while vacationing in Thailand is interviewed at the Pudong International Airport. More than 300 locals returned from Thailand and Maldives yesterday. — Zhou Minglu

Two-year-old Hannes Bergstroem of Sweden, whose mother is missing and father is hospitalized in a Thai hospital after Sunday’s tsunami,is held by a caretaker at another hospital in Thailand’s tourist island of Phuket on Dec.28. — Reuters

A foreign girl scribbles on paper at a shelter in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Hundreds of injured and displaced foreigners were waiting for flights home on Dec.27. — Reuters

A Thai couple embrace during a cremation ceremony on Dec.29 for a relative killed by Sunday’s tsunami in Thap Lamu, about 900 kilometers south of Bangkok.— Reuters

Volunteers and emergency workers carry a girl from Marina beach after a powerful tsunami hit the Indian city of Madras on Dec. 26. At least 2,300 died along India’s southern coast after an earthquake triggered the huge waves.

Field littered with bodies in Banda Aceh after the Tsunamis.(Photo: Xinhua)

A Indian monther is crying her heart out over her son's death in the massive tsunamis triggered by a magnitude 8.1 earthquake in Southeast Asia.(Photo: Xinhua/AFP)

A Indian couple are in grief over their son's death in the massive tsunamis.(Photo: Xinhua/AFP)