Ten years after the tsunami hit Japan’s east coast,the survivors are still rebuilding their lives. Many are grateful for the Australians that lent a hand.
Here are some of the highlights,the lowlights and the things I simply won't forget from my time as south-east Asia correspondent.
Lushani Hewage met Claudia Fatone,through a mentoring program for girls in the child protection system. They have built a lasting friendship through running.
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.1 has struck in Indonesia but a tsunami warning has been lifted.
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has urged the Central American country's coastal population to move to higher ground.
Swimming at the beach once popular with surfers has been allowed for the first time following the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
The action allows people to return to about 40 per cent of Okuma,one of two towns close to the tsunami-wrecked plant.
A powerful undersea earthquake struck off the southern Philippines on Saturday,prompting people to scramble out of shopping malls and buildings and authorities to warn villagers to stay away from beaches in case of a tsunami.
The country's volcanology agency increased the volcano's alert status to the second-highest and more than doubled the exclusion zone to a five kilometre radius.
The country's volcanology agency has raised the alert status at Anak Krakatoa volcano's to the second highest level.
With the death toll now at 430,authorities say their"number one concern"is another crater collapse of the volcano believed to have caused the"silent tsunami".