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Tsunami

Companies focus help on long-term projects

By Amy Kazmin in Bangkok

Published: December 22 2005 17:20 | Last updated: December 22 2005 17:20

Within 24 hours of the tsunami, Amal Naj, Thailand country manager for Pfizer, received a call from headquarters, asking for help to find several colleagues and their families from Europe on holiday in Thailand when the disaster struck.

Mr Naj, more than 200 local Pfizer staff, and five international security officers mounted a major search. After a few days, nine people were located, but another 22, including three company employees, had died.

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