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Terrain hampers Solomons relief efforts

Victims of Monday's earthquake and tsunami in Solomon Islands are now starting to receive aid and assistance.

But the geography of the region is making it difficult to get supplies through, and the damage assessment process is still underway.

Aid workers says the lack of shelter is a problem for those injured in the disaster, and that children are already getting sick because of the shortage of clean water.

Barbara Miller has our report.

BARBARA MILLER: The number of people known to have died as a result of the earthquake and tsunami is now approaching 30, but authorities say the indications so far are that there has not been death on a massive scale.

The priorities today are to complete the assessment of the damage done, to attend to the injured, and to provide food and water to the homeless.

Cute, cuddly and consumately designed - Sola Rola

Krisse is either getting dangerously loose with AAS MegaGame awards or has indeed found a second game in a fortnight to merit the high rating. Sola Rola, despite being built on J2ME, delivers at every turn, with smooth and believable 2D animation allied with great level design. Here's the Sola Rola review, make sure to click through at the end of the review to the video walkthrough, to see what Krisse means.

"As you may have noticed over the years, All About Symbian has tended to concentrate on native Symbian applications and games rather than stuff that runs through Java. Even though Symbian phones can run Java software, it usually looks much worse and has more restricted functionality than native apps, and this has traditionally been especially visible in gaming. While the best Symbian games look like they've wandered in from a PlayStation, Java games often seemed to resemble something from a Commodore 64.