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Article: Cutting-edge telecommunications help reconnect Asia's tsunami-displaced people
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- AP Worldstream
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- January 13, 2005
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EDWARD HARRIS, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
01-13-2005
Dateline: BLANG BINTANG, Indonesia
Before the killer tsunami leveled his house and swept away his daughter, Umar Bin Adam had never used a computer.
Now, squatting in a makeshift refugee camp in a schoolyard on an Indonesian island, he taps a number into a satellite phone, mystified but grateful for the high-tech help in his hunt for his daughter.
"For me, it's really a big help. I can communicate with my family," Bin Adam, 38, said after replacing the black handset connected to the nearby dish that beams his words into space.
Thousands of foreign aid workers flooding into the Asian zones hit hardest by the Dec. 26 earthquake and ...
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