Walter
the countries themselves may be rich but that does not mean that the people living in these areas are rich. the hardest hit areas are the more remote and poor communities with extremely poor infrastructure for cummunications.
Slán
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>Hi mark,
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>>I think that the problem is that the areas that this tragedy hit were some of the poorest in the world.
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>I don't think that is true. Taiwan and india, indonesia are not known as the poorest countries in the world. In fact I believe most of them are so called 'Second world countries'.
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>Walter,