Haiti: The Earthquake Aftermath

Oprah Winfrey to see Haiti’s President Michel Martelly, Designer Donna Karan, Sean Penn’s DP camp

Former U.S. President and U.N. special envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton, center, talks to U.S. fashion designer Donna Karan before the opening ceremony of an investor conference at the Karibe hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday Nov. 29, 2011. On Monday, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Haitian President Michel Martelly broke ground for an ambitious $224 million industrial park in northern Haiti that they hope will generate tens of thousands of jobs, house 5,000 of the workers and educate 500 of their children in a new school. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

The TV talent is expected in Port au Prince Sunday evening to visit a settlement camp for displaced people run by Hollywood actor Sean Penn and meet with fashion designer Donna Karan on Monday.

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HAITI: THE EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH

Haiti leaders to begin talks on improving investment laws

As business opportunities in post-earthquake Haiti yield enthusiasm and opportunity, the government commits to passing law to make country more business friendly.

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HAITI: THE EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH

Brazilian firm buys trade secrets to build low-cost homes

Millport Associates, a subsidiary of a Brazilian conglomerate, acquired InnoVida’s trade secrets in a bankruptcy auction.

173 days ago
HAITI: THE EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH

Sonia Pierre leaves behind legacy of activism for Haitians in Dominican Republic

Ninaj Raoul, a human rights activist and executive director of the New York-based Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, remembers meeting Sonia Pierre in 1994 at a conference decrying the agonizing plight of Haitian refugees.

174 days ago
HAITI: THE EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH

Miami Herald staff wins regional Emmy award for Haiti documentary

Nou Bouke, a documentary that captured the mood of Haiti after the devastating earthquake in 2010, received a regional Emmy award Saturday in the documentary-topical category.

176 days ago
HAITI: THE EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH

Life amid ruin: Death toll may be 50,000; troops on way

PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Government workers dug mass graves and buried more than 7,000 dead Thursday as corpses overwhelmed this earthquake-ravaged city awaiting a surge of relief supplies amassing in Miami and elsewhere.

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HAITI: THE EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH

No chance to give the dead a proper burial

PORT-AU-PRINCE -- In Haiti, funerals are as expensive as weddings, tombs often more elaborate than the homes of the living.

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HAITI: THE EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH

Time running out as search for survivors intensifies

PORT-AU-PRINCE -- As the confirmed death toll in Haiti's calamitous earthquake reached 70,000, the flow of medical help and food and water to survivors began showing signs of improvement Sunday, though persistent logistical logjams at the capital's airport -- complicated by sporadic, isolated violence...

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HAITI: THE EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH

Disaster in Haiti: 'You can't dig 50,000 graves'

PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Just before dawn, the bodies began arriving -- wrapped in sheets of plastic -- and pulled off pickups and makeshift stretchers at a morgue that was already overflowing before disaster struck Tuesday evening.

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HAITI: THE EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH

Losing all, except faith

PORT-AU-PRINCE -- When night falls, the 20 young men gather the megaphones and begin patrolling the rocky soccer field in the Marie Therese neighborhood, keeping vigil over this makeshift village of 1,500 mothers, fathers and babies, all earthquake survivors.

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HAITI: THE EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH

A nation loses part of its heart with demise of the biggest thinkers

PORT-AU-PRINCE -- They were the voices of reason and compromise in a country where words are often used as weapons of political warfare, where political turmoil is a chronic condition, like hardship and economic chaos.

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