Updated: 8am GMT -- 2004/12/29

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Wounded but not sunk
Asian economy starts to count losses THE tsunamis that ravaged the coasts of the Indian Ocean inflicted hundreds of millions of dollars in damage and will likely force a rethink of 2005 spending priorities, economists said yesterday. The killer w...

We're onto something At Home & Abroad with Allister Sparks
IT'S THAT silly season again when one is supposed to make resolutions and predictions about the year ahead. It's silly because resolutions are never kept and predictions never come about. They don't come about because, in Harold Macmillan's immortal ...